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
Microsoft helps its quarter but hurts its customers by holding back details on price hikes -- more than quadruple on some products -- during the all-important October budget season.
- By Scott Braden
- November 21, 2006
For those who have been frequently frustrated in the past when new versions of Windows did not support their hardware, the times, they are a-changing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 21, 2006
Guidance Software Inc. said Thursday it's settled Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from a 2005 security failure that allowed hackers to access the credit card information of thousands of customers.
- By The Associated Press
- November 17, 2006
Microsoft execs aren't exactly shouting, "Head 'em up, move 'em out," as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates character did in the '60s TV series, "Rawhide," but their long drive to bring Windows Server "Longhorn" to market continues.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 16, 2006
A former Source Media Inc. executive was charged with hacking into the company's computer system three years after he was dismissed, and tipping off employees whose jobs were in jeopardy, prosecutors said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- November 16, 2006