Microsoft announced Tuesday the opening of an office in Bosnia in order to promote its software on the Bosnian market.
- By The Associated Press
- February 28, 2006
A week after inadvertently telling the world prematurely, Microsoft Monday officially revealed its packaging plans for Windows Vista when the desktop OS family rolls out toward the end of the year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 27, 2006
On the Internet, the traffic cops are blind: They don't look at the data they're directing, and they don't give preferential treatment. That's something operators of the Internet highway, the major U.S. phone companies, want to change by effectively adding a toll lane -- they want to be able to give priority treatment to those who pay to get through faster.
- By The Associated Press
- February 26, 2006
The use of high-speed Internet services is growing fast in rural America, partly closing the gap between country and city, a survey shows.
- By The Associated Press
- February 26, 2006
Despite a lackluster showing in its first decade, Intel’s Itanium 2 line of true 64-bit CPUs may be set to come into its own with strong growth likely in the next three years, according to a new report from market researchers at IDC.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 23, 2006
Microsoft has confirmed that a new build of the current beta of "Longhorn" server is shipping to some participants in the current Windows Vista technology preview.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 23, 2006
From the business wires this week: an application deployer, a password recovery solution, Web content filter for Active Directory, more.
- By Dan Hong
- February 23, 2006
Microsoft Corp. took the unusual step Thursday of making public its formal response to European Union charges that it was failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust ruling.
- By The Associated Press
- February 23, 2006
Oracle announced it is shipping seven new plug-ins that lets Microsoft servers to be monitored and managed by Oracle's Grid Control system monitoring package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 23, 2006
A Florida man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison in a computer theft case involving more than 1 billion records that Acxiom Corp., a data-management company, collected in its work for large corporations.
- By The Associated Press
- February 23, 2006
Microsoft Corp. is is no hurry as it evaluates China for a possible launch of the Xbox 360, the company official in charge of the game console for the region said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- February 23, 2006
Microsoft offers readers of MCPmag.com with promotional codes for
select, upcoming beta exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- February 23, 2006
Stepping up competition in the PC industry, Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's third-largest computer maker, is introducing its first Lenovo-branded computers to be sold outside its home base of China.
- By The Associated Press
- February 23, 2006
The Windows Vista enterprise CTP, or community technology preview, released Wednesday, will be followed next quarter by a consumer CTP. The two CTPs replace a Beta 2 version of Windows Vista.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 22, 2006
BRUSSELS-A group of Microsoft Corp.'s rivals filed a complaint with the European Commission on Wednesday, alleging its business practices threatened to deny real choice among competing software products.
- By The Associated Press
- February 22, 2006
Microsoft investing in phone system to reach out and touch more partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 22, 2006
The FBI's latest attempt to modernize its computers is running behind schedule and its budget already has exceeded the cost of the last failed effort.
- By The Associated Press
- February 22, 2006
Microsoft is shipping a set of tools meant to help customers more closely tie Microsoft’s Dynamics products into Office 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 22, 2006
Look out Microsoft, you’re not the only ones who want in on the corporate instant messaging and collaboration tools game, or the online services market.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 22, 2006
BEJING-China is cracking down on junk e-mail and "illegal" mobile phone text messages, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- February 22, 2006