Microsoft sees potential to sell computer keyboards, mice and other hardware in emerging markets where software sales are hampered by widespread piracy.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
Microsoft quietly announced Thursday that it is shipping the Beta 2 technical refresh of Office 2007.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 14, 2006
An Australian man is under investigation for sending more than 2 billion junk e-mails in one year to promote Viagra.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
Fake cyberattackers and hackers largely foiled government and industry attempts to fight back quickly and effectively during a test of computer security systems.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
The copy protection program that Sony put on CDs last year is still posing a threat to computer users running certain versions of AOL or PestPatrol antivirus software.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
Microsoft is shipping the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Server "Longhorn," according to statements posted on a company blog last weekend.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 14, 2006
One of the last remaining consumer class-action antitrust lawsuits filed against Microsoft Corp. in a state court is set to go to trial in November, and Bill Gates is on the witness list.
- By The Associated Press
- September 13, 2006
To encourage adoption of Web services by developers, including open source projects, Microsoft has announced a promise not to sue for use of its proprietary XML specifications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 13, 2006
Microsoft's announcement on Monday that its long-awaited Windows Live Search service is officially out of beta test and ready for use signals its biggest move to date to challenge search giant Google for both consumers and businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 13, 2006
Two Moroccan men have been sentenced to prison terms for helping write the Zotob computer virus that attacked major U.S. networks last year, a court official said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- September 13, 2006
The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
- By The Associated Press
- September 12, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn took the fall Tuesday after admitting she authorized an investigation that relied on "inappropriate techniques" to uncover who was leaking boardroom secrets to the media.
- By The Associated Press
- September 12, 2006
European Union officials warned Microsoft not to shut out rivals in the security software market.
- By The Associated Press
- September 12, 2006
Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is "absurd."
- By The Associated Press
- September 12, 2006
Microsoft announced Tuesday that veteran manager Satya Nadella will succeed Doug Burgum as head of the company's Business Solutions group, which develops and markets the Dynamics brand of small and mid-sized business applications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 12, 2006
Users who have wanted to save Microsoft Office documents in Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) were frustrated earlier this year when Redmond announced it would not include the capability as a native function in Office 2007 as it had previously announced.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 12, 2006
Microsoft Corp. plans to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo and Google.
- By The Associated Press
- September 11, 2006
ASP.NET developers won't have to wait until next year to use Microsoft's AJAX server controls and client-side JavaScript library if things go according to plan. Microsoft's target ship date for its AJAX technology is now around the end of 2006, according to Scott Guthrie, general manager, Microsoft Developer Division.
- By Kathleen Richards
- September 11, 2006
Dell Inc. has delayed filing its fiscal second-quarter financial report and suspended its share repurchase program because of an ongoing federal accounting probe. It was the latest in a series of setbacks for the world's largest PC maker
- By The Associated Press
- September 11, 2006