In a move designed to steal a march over Google, Microsoft has been looking into purchasing online auction company eBay and merge it with its MSN portal, according to reports in the New York Post last Friday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 30, 2006
The glass-encased room inside Intel Corp.'s microchip factory here, with its shiny, metallic surfaces and frigid air, is a world away from the blistering sun and brown earth outside.
- By The Associated Press
- May 30, 2006
The agency promoting China's wireless encryption standard has accused a U.S. engineers' group of waging a conspiracy that led a global organization to reject the Chinese system, the country's official news agency said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- May 30, 2006
Just as with Windows Vista Ultimate edition, Microsoft is planning an "Ultimate" edition of Office System 2007.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 30, 2006
A provision to significantly increase high-tech worker visas quietly added to sweeping immigration bill.
- By The Associated Press
- May 26, 2006
Microsoft exams soon to be flying out of testing centers worldwide...well, at least for those of you interested in getting certified under the next-generation MCP exams for .NET experts.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 25, 2006
No sooner did Microsoft begin shipping Beta 2 of Windows Vista this week did the alarms go off worldwide: CEO Steve Ballmer, on tour this week in Asia, may have hinted at the "S word."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 25, 2006
Google on Thursday confirmed a long-rumored deal that will bundle some of its software on Dell Inc.'s personal computers, providing the online search engine leader with another potentially potent weapon in its fierce rivalry with Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- May 25, 2006
Amid all the announcements regarding betas of Vista, Longhorn, Office 2007 Microsoft and various virtualization initiatives officials made at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week, the arrival of the Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack all but got lost in the noise.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 25, 2006
Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- May 25, 2006
NEC Corp. and Microsoft Corp. plan to expand their business partnership in the networking and server businesses.
- By The Associated Press
- May 24, 2006
Microsoft has agreed to license infoUSA's business listings database to beef up the software company's online local search offerings.
- By The Associated Press
- May 24, 2006
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its local, photo-based search service into the United Kingdom, and adding traffic information for the U.S. service.
- By The Associated Press
- May 24, 2006
As expected, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced the beginning of Beta 2 for three products key to the company's future during his keynote at this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 24, 2006
Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion.
- By The Associated Press
- May 23, 2006
Much of Montana's government computer system crashed Monday, idling state employees and frustrating those who wanted to do such things as renew driver's licenses and obtain fishing permits.
- By The Associated Press
- May 23, 2006
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released new test versions of what company co-founder Bill Gates called its three most important products.
- By The Associated Press
- May 23, 2006
Microsoft Corp. has told about 1,000 technology contract workers to take seven days off the job, without Microsoft pay, in a cost-saving move.
- By The Associated Press
- May 23, 2006
Microsoft started off its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week in Seattle with a bang, revealing an accelerated schedule for rolling virtualization capabilities into Windows Longhorn, and a management tool for virtual environments, as well as announcing the intent to acquire application virtualization vendor Softricity.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 23, 2006
U.S. chip maker Intel Corp. will design cheaper computers to be made by manufacturers in India for the country's rural poor.
- By The Associated Press
- May 23, 2006