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
For millions of PC users, the privacy-snatching programs known as spyware have been nothing but a headache as they swipe personal information, slow systems to a crawl and crash computers. For Webroot Software Inc., the annoying programs have been the foundation of success.
- By The Associated Press
- May 22, 2006
South Korea rejected appeal by Microsoft to overturn an antitrust decision against the world's largest software company.
- By The Associated Press
- May 22, 2006
Microsoft developed technology for people to pay by the hour to use
a computer in their own homes.
- By The Associated Press
- May 22, 2006
New Horizons becomes the largest network of Microsoft Gold Partners, it reports.
Wall Street punishes Microsoft for playing close to the vest on investment plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2006
Just five months after its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. gave Hewlett-Packard Co. the No. 1 ranking in worldwide personal computer shipments, a new batch of market numbers delivered some stomach-turning news to HP.
- By The Associated Press
- May 19, 2006
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is buying out secure access software vendor Whale Communications, in a move aimed at broadening its security offerings to enterprise customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 19, 2006
Symantec accused Microsoft of misappropriating its intellectual property and breach of contract.
- By The Associated Press
- May 19, 2006
Security software maker Symantec Corp. accused Microsoft Corp. in a federal lawsuit Thursday of misappropriating its intellectual property and breach of contract.
- By The Associated Press
- May 19, 2006
After months of being noncommittal, Microsoft Thursday finally published the system requirements for Windows Vista, and set up a Web site to help users plan ahead for Vista’s availability early next year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 19, 2006
Piracy in China tempers the enormous business opportunities there.
- By Anne Stuart
- May 19, 2006
An inside look at prominent deals within the Microsoft partner community. Part of an occasional series.
- By Lee Pender
- May 19, 2006
From the business wires: a tool for monitoring Web apps, SharePoint connectors, and a self-extracting file compression program.
July 11 support deadline looms for Windows 98/SE/Me.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2006
The world's largest PC maker says it was merely bowing to customer demand when it decided to start offering microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in some of its high-end servers.
- By The Associated Press
- May 19, 2006
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has trained 300 Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) on its way to a goal of 900 MCPs as it ramps up its services capabilities for a major push into small business sales.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 18, 2006
Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there.
- By The Associated Press
- May 18, 2006
Company's corporate restructuring designed to allow Microsoft Corp. to make decisions more quickly, says top exec.
- By The Associated Press
- May 18, 2006