With Windows Vista nearly ready for rollout, two of Microsoft's “frenemies” -- Adobe and Symantec -- are taking their complaints of bundling to the European Commission, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 21, 2006
Included with Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is a new tool for aiding help desk personnel in recovering from installations of the new system that have gone south.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 20, 2006
Windows CE 6.0, the latest version of Microsoft's embedded device operating system, has been released to manufacturing -- "RTM" in Microsoft lingo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 20, 2006
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2006
Japanese electronics maker plans to recall 340,000 notebook computer batteries, some manufactured by Sony Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2006
After 16 years at Microsoft, Jim Allchin, co-president of the company's Platforms and Services Division, is retiring in a couple of months -- when much-delayed Windows Vista finally ships to customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 19, 2006
The White House has chosen an industry information security specialist as its cybersecurity chief, filling a job that has had no permanent director for a year.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2006
Microsoft is shipping Beta 2 of its new System Center Essentials 2007 systems management product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 19, 2006
Microsoft scrambles to update Windows Media after a hacker released a program that circumvents a safeguard designed to prevent people from freely copying digital movies and songs.
- By The Associated Press
- September 15, 2006
RSA Security Inc. said its shareholders approved the company's $2.1 billion acquisition by data storage provider EMC Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- September 15, 2006
Microsoft quietly announced Thursday that it is shipping the Beta 2 technical refresh of Office 2007.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 14, 2006
An Australian man is under investigation for sending more than 2 billion junk e-mails in one year to promote Viagra.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
Fake cyberattackers and hackers largely foiled government and industry attempts to fight back quickly and effectively during a test of computer security systems.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006
The copy protection program that Sony put on CDs last year is still posing a threat to computer users running certain versions of AOL or PestPatrol antivirus software.
- By The Associated Press
- September 14, 2006