Finally. Wednesday night, Microsoft released the broad public beta, also called the Customer Preview Program (CPP), opening up testing floodgates for the long-awaited replacement for Windows XP to literally millions of consumers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 08, 2006
Microsoft clarified the roadmap for its business intelligence products Tuesday, and also announced that it is working on a new business intelligence tool aimed at performance management.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 07, 2006
After months of speculation, the Computing Technology Industry Association unveiled a new structure for its flagship A+ hardware technician certification.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 07, 2006
AOL is releasing free software to automatically check whether you have the latest security protection on your Windows computer.
- By The Associated Press
- June 07, 2006
Dell Inc. said Tuesday it had reached a deal to supply Google Inc. with customized computer servers the search engine company will sell to corporate customers.
- By The Associated Press
- June 07, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Co., a maker of computers and printers, raised its second-quarter profit by $443 million Tuesday and boosted its income forecast for the remainder of the year to reflect a tax settlement with the U.S. government.
- By The Associated Press
- June 07, 2006
Microsoft this week disclosed new features coming in BizTalk Server 2006 Release 2 (R2), including integrated support for radio frequency identification (RFID) devices.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 06, 2006
Google Inc. will introduce a spreadsheet program Tuesday, continuing the Internet search leader's expansion into territory long dominated by Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- June 06, 2006
Microsoft Corp. said Monday that its Internet security software will be included with Qwest's high-speed Internet service.
- By The Associated Press
- June 06, 2006
Microsoft will ship the first branded versions of its Antigen products beginning July 1, the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 06, 2006
A major wrestling match in Congress over control of the Internet features some strange tag teams -- rockers and evangelists vs. phone companies and the Bells' usually biggest adversary, cable TV companies.
- By The Associated Press
- June 06, 2006
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.
- By The Associated Press
- June 06, 2006
The senior vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. whipped out a tiny hard drive about the size of a Wheat Thin. The drive's label claimed a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes -- more than 100 times greater than today's models that can hold 8,000 photos or 2,000 songs.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2006
One of the world's most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2006
Hundreds of people waving picket signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site that had millions of users worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2006
Microsoft Corp. said it has canceled plans to include an automatic way to save documents in the popular PDF format in the next version of its Office software, amid an ongoing dispute with Adobe Systems Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- June 02, 2006
From the business wires this week: a Windows auditing and reporting solution, a database development app for SQL and Microsoft highlights.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the market for microprocessors that act as the brains of personal computers, unveiled plans for new products it said would deliver improved performance and efficiency.
- By The Associated Press
- June 02, 2006
Microsoft Corp. will offer a premium license for the upcoming version of its Exchange e-mail server.
- By The Associated Press
- June 02, 2006
Microsoft said this week it will split the Office business unit in two to better reflect the suite's continuing evolution, and has appointed two veteran insiders to head the new groups.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 01, 2006