Saying both he personally and his company were entering a new era, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he will take a much more active role in championing innovation within the company as chairman Bill Gates gradually backs away from his role as chairman over the next two years.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- July 27, 2006
AOL co-founder Steve Case has offered a qualified apology for his role in architecting the online company's disastrous combination with Time Warner Inc. "Yes, I'm sorry I did it," Case said on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" last Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- July 27, 2006
Microsoft Corp. has acquired a patient information system that the world's largest software maker plans to sell to health care providers worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- July 27, 2006
Two students each face up to a year in jail for a prank that involved hacking into a professor's computer, giving grades to other students and sending pizza, magazine subscriptions and CDs to the professor's home.
- By The Associated Press
- July 27, 2006
Microsoft releases exam for business process management experts after a successful beta test last month.
- By Michael Domingo
- July 27, 2006
Intel Corp. introduced its most important product line in six years Thursday, unveiling 10 microprocessors that are expected to help the world's largest chip maker retake ground lost to smaller competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- July 27, 2006
A growth engine in IBM Corp. appears to be sputtering, illustrating the challenges with the company's broader strategy of enticing businesses to let Big Blue take over vital operations from designing products to handling payroll and customer service.
- By The Associated Press
- July 26, 2006
ADT Senior Editor Kathleen Richards talks with Forrester's John R. Rymer about what makes Office 2007 such a promising development platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- July 26, 2006
In a move meant to strengthen its enterprise security message, Microsoft said this week it has completed the acquisition of a leading secure access software firm.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 26, 2006
Microsoft will host a crowd of financial analysts on campus Thursday for its annual financial analyst meeting.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 26, 2006
The company responsible for introducing millions of people to the Internet is poised to undergo a transformation that would likely accelerate its decline as a gatekeeper of access to the information superhighway.
- By The Associated Press
- July 25, 2006
Microsoft announced it has begun shipping Beta 1 of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 edition. However, the beta is billed as "private."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 25, 2006
Microsoft announced this week it is shipping the second beta test version -- which is also the first public beta test -- of Exchange Server 2007, as well as Forefront Server for Exchange Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 25, 2006
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. struck another blow at Intel Corp., its bigger rival in the market for personal-computer microprocessors, as it disclosed plans Monday to buy one of the dominant makers of graphics chips in a $5.4 billion deal that analysts said could fundamentally alter competition in the semiconductor industry.
- By The Associated Press
- July 25, 2006
Microsoft Certified Architect makes its officiial debut at launch event.
- By Anne Stuart
- July 24, 2006
Star Trek, the Sopranos, Seinfeld and ... the Smurfs?
- By Anne Stuart
- July 24, 2006
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2006
Microsoft Corp. confirmed Friday it's working on music and entertainment products that are expected to compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular iPod and iTunes music service.
- By The Associated Press
- July 24, 2006
Business software maker SAP AG said its net profit rose 43 percent in the second quarter on higher U.S. revenues and better margins.
- By The Associated Press
- July 21, 2006
The demand at Microsoft Corp.'s annual meeting of financial analysts next week won't be so much to "show me the money" as to "show me what you're doing with the money."
- By The Associated Press
- July 21, 2006