As expected, Microsoft has widened the availability of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to users who participated in the Vista Beta 2 testing program last spring.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 07, 2006
Microsoft has changed the requirements for its MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer title, no longer requiring passage of three exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 06, 2006
Brian Valentine, a fixture in Microsoft's management team for nearly 20 years, has left the company to join Amazon.com.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 06, 2006
A San Diego man was so upset that the University of Southern California did not admit him as a student that he hacked into the school's application system and stole other would-be students' personal information, he admitted in court.
- By The Associated Press
- September 06, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
- By The Associated Press
- September 06, 2006
Microsoft and Cisco demonstrated this week a single client agent providing interoperability between the software giant's coming Network Access Protection (NAP) and the networking behemoth's Network Admission Control (NAC) protocols.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 06, 2006
Sun Microsystems and Unisys have filed a lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor in the United States, apparently seeking damages related to a federal probe into price-fixing of memory chips.
- By The Associated Press
- September 05, 2006
Microsoft will broaden distribution of the first "release candidate" of Windows Vista to as many as five million testers beginning this week, after sending initial versions out late last week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 05, 2006
The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the nation's first felony conviction of illegal spamming.
- By The Associated Press
- September 05, 2006
Quest Software announced it is shipping an administration tool designed to simplify management of sites based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 05, 2006
With Intel Corp. apparently poised to announce the latest stage of its restructuring effort, speculation has centered not on whether the world's largest chip maker would be cutting jobs, but on how many.
- By The Associated Press
- September 05, 2006
Gateway has rejected an unsolicited $450 million bid for its retail business from eMachines founder Lap Shun Hui.
- By The Associated Press
- September 03, 2006
Speculation is swirling that Intel will be cutting thousands of jobs in its latest restructuring effort.
- By The Associated Press
- September 03, 2006
Several high-ranking Microsoft Corp. executives Thursday received millions of dollars in stock awards as part of a compensation program that the company rejiggered several years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- September 02, 2006
Several Microsoft execs received millions of dollars in stock awards as part of compensation program that the company rejiggered several years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- September 01, 2006
Television should consider Google a friend, not foe, a senior company executive says.
- By The Associated Press
- August 31, 2006
A southern Indian state plans to switch all school computers from Microsoft Windows to the free Linux operating system, an official said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- August 31, 2006
Try saying this three times quickly: Microsoft is shipping Beta 2 of Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 31, 2006
The Microsoft official responsible for releasing Windows Vista builds explained in an interview published on the Vista Team Weblog this week some of the intricacies of how the build numbering scheme for Release Candidates works.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 31, 2006
Apple Computer Inc. said Tuesday that Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt is joining its board, adding another well-known name to the list of high-profile directors who oversee the management of the company behind the iPod portable player and Macintosh computer.
- By The Associated Press
- August 30, 2006