A Massachusetts court has rejected a Microsoft Corp. request to force software rival Novell Inc. to hand over European Union correspondence that Microsoft claims it needs to defend itself against antitrust charges in Europe.
- By The Associated Press
- April 18, 2006
Marathon Technologies announced Monday it is shipping a new virtualization solution that provides high availability for applications at a lower price point than traditional clustering. On top of that, the company claims, it’s easier and less expensive than traditional clusters to deploy and manage.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 18, 2006
Massachusetts court denies Microsoft's request to force Novell to hand over EU papers that may help in antitrust case.
- By The Associated Press
- April 18, 2006
Consumers who bought PCs with Microsoft software preinstalled on systems or on purchased PCs from resellers can't sue for antitrust violations, says federal appeals court.
- By The Associated Press
- April 18, 2006
Officials at the largest Chinese PC manufacturer tells Microsoft that most of its Chinese PCs now have legitimate, licensed Windows installed.
- By The Associated Press
- April 17, 2006
Business software provider Oracle Corp. is considering plans to offer its own version of the Linux operating system and has studied an acquisition of Novell Inc., the open-source operating system's No. 2 distributor, according to a newspaper report Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- April 17, 2006
Zenprise 2.0's diagnostics management add-on for Microsoft Exchange gets an update with self-healing capabilities, more integrated troubleshooting reference material.
- By Michael Domingo
- April 17, 2006
AT&T Inc. and an Internet advocacy group are waging in federal court a privacy battle that could expose the reach of the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program.
- By The Associated Press
- April 16, 2006
When Sam Palmisano addresses IBM's annual shareholder meeting this month, Big Blue's chief will unfurl plenty of good news. And yet investors in the audience could be forgiven for being impatient with the boss.
- By The Associated Press
- April 16, 2006
Part of our ongoing series offering an inside look at prominent deals in the Microsoft partner community.
- By Lee Pender
- April 14, 2006
Sales of personal computers without software -- known as "naked computers" -- will be banned in the Chinese capital to reduce software piracy, the city government said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- April 14, 2006
Chinese computer manufacturer Founder Technology Group Corp. signed an agreement Wednesday with Microsoft Corp. as part of an overall effort to crack down on widespread software piracy in China.
- By The Associated Press
- April 13, 2006
Microsoft this week took another shot at nemesis Google as it released the first beta test copy of its own academic search system.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 13, 2006
Google Inc., the top online search engine, is unveiling a calendar service that allows users to store appointments online, receive reminders about them and share those plans with others.
- By The Associated Press
- April 13, 2006
This time, there will be no more temporary reprieves. Microsoft has begun warning users of Windows 98, 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition that the end is near -- for all technical support, at least.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 13, 2006
Microsoft Learning Group also plans to launch multi-language versions of SQL Server exams in April.
- By Michael Domingo
- April 12, 2006
Microsoft late last week did something longtime industry watchers thought they'd never see: The company announced it has set up a Web site specifically aimed at improving communications with Linux and the rest of the open source world.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 12, 2006
Chief technical officer Ray Ozzie has only been at Microsoft a year but he has already started making an important impact on the company's technology directions, especially in the area of the software giant's online services play.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 12, 2006
A Briton accused of mounting the largest ever successful hack of U.S. government computer networks could face prosecution under U.S. anti-terror laws, despite assurances he will not, his lawyer told an extradition hearing Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- April 12, 2006
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt on Wednesday defended the search engine's cooperation with Chinese censorship as he announced the creation of a Beijing research center and unveiled a Chinese-language brand name.
- By The Associated Press
- April 12, 2006