While Microsoft is busy celebrating the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, a posse of partners also lined up to announce support for the new products. Unfortunately, many of those third-party announcements are long on promises and short on details, including specifics as to when those new and updated products will actually reach market.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 30, 2006
U.S. companies will need to know more about where they store e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2006
A Romanian national was indicted on charges of hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, including NASA and Energy Dept.
- By The Associated Press
- November 29, 2006
Businesses get first crack at buying Microsoft's long-anticipated Windows upgrade.
- By The Associated Press
- November 29, 2006
While Microsoft will officially deliver the shipping versions of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to business customers on Thursday, many if not most of those same customers will wait for up to a year and a half before deploying the new operating system.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 29, 2006
Microsoft has announced it will license third-party developers to build applications that have the look and feel of Office 2007 on a royalty-free basis.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 28, 2006
Unsolicited e-mails continue to plague Europeans and account for between 50 and 80 percent of all messages sent to mail inboxes, the European Commission said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2006
EU report says that 50-80 percent of all e-mails are junk e-mails, with much of it coming from outside the EU nations.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2006
Bill Hartnett got accustomed to the screaming. As Microsoft Corp.'s manager of software sales to financial services companies, Hartnett used to get pelted with complaints about the security and reliability of Microsoft's products.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2006
New software line-up, including a SharePoint Server update, aimed at improving business processes.
- By The Associated Press
- November 24, 2006
EU in process of certifying whether documentation complies with anti-trust order.
- By The Associated Press
- November 24, 2006
Review of gas pedal patents by U.S. Supreme Court being watched closely by tech companies like Microsoft, others because of impact on software patent laws.
- By The Associated Press
- November 24, 2006
EU alleges that SWIFT violated data protection laws in transferring data to U.S. to aid in anti-terror investigations.
- By The Associated Press
- November 23, 2006
There's a new way to send large movie, music and other files without worrying about whether the e-mail systems can handle large attachments.
- By The Associated Press
- November 22, 2006
Microsoft is shipping the first release candidate or RC of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003, with final availability scheduled for the first quarter of 2007
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 22, 2006