Users of Microsoft’s upcoming Outlook “12” will be able to monitor Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feeds from within the e-mail client, according to a Microsoft official’s Weblog.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 27, 2005
Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 27, 2005
Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 22, 2005
.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.
- By Michael Domingo
- December 22, 2005
The European Commissioner for Competition warned Microsoft on Thursday that it is facing fines of nearly $2.4 million per day unless it immediately delivers complete documentation of its programming interfaces, particularly those for work group servers, to enable competitors to interoperate with Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 22, 2005
Research group IDC has upgraded its projections of global PC shipment growth for the fourth quarter of 2005 and calendar 2006. It seems that, even as growth slows, it’s nonetheless still continuing to grow, and more quickly than earlier estimates had predicted.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 22, 2005
Get ready for more colorful graphics on Google pages. That may be one of the most visible outcomes of a deal between the king of search engines and America Online.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 21, 2005
CommVault announced it is shipping version 6.1 of its QiNetix data management suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 21, 2005
Microsoft said it and partner SAP will provide a technology preview of their jointly developed “Mendocino” product to 40 customers and 10 partners on Friday, right on schedule.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 21, 2005
What do Bill and Melinda Gates have to do with 11 U.S. Presidents, and dozens of world leaders, great humanitarians, dictators, and just plain interesting people on a list that stretches back to 1927?
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 20, 2005
Microsoft announced Monday that it has snagged a leading user interface visionary to work in the company's research division.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 20, 2005
As promised, after skipping November, Microsoft began shipping the December Windows Vista community technology preview (CTP) to customers and partners this week. Among other features, the latest build debuts a slew of new security capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 20, 2005
A handful of individuals abused the Microsoft Action Pack program to obtain hundreds of the cheap software bundles and sell the software online and elsewhere, Microsoft has alleged in a flurry of recent lawsuits.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2005
RPG development solutions provider ASNA announces support for Visual Studio.
- By Dan Hong
- December 19, 2005
From the business wires: Group Policy management software, a solution for migrating customer data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and an 8GB USB flash drive.
- By Dan Hong
- December 16, 2005
Microsoft filed 10 lawsuits in federal court accusing three companies and nine individuals of illegally selling Microsoft software.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2005
Microsoft's board increased the company's quarterly dividend by a penny to $0.09 a share.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2005
Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 will be generally available on Monday in the United States and Canada, Microsoft said.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2005
Quest Software is shipping version 2.5 of its Group Policy Manager tool for creating, testing and implementing Windows Group Policy.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2005
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Visto filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement in connection with Windows Mobile 5, which introduces push e-mail technology similar to Visto’s offerings.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2005