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
Businesses get first crack at buying Microsoft's long-anticipated Windows upgrade.
- By The Associated Press
- 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
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
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
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
Tired of waiting for Windows Vista? Got an MSDN Premium subscription? Well, there you go.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 16, 2006
EU says Microsoft still short of supplying data to comply with 2004 order.
- By The Associated Press
- November 15, 2006
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates told shareholders Tuesday that Windows Vista could be the company's biggest product launch since Windows 95 debuted more than a decade ago.
- By The Associated Press
- November 15, 2006
Right on the heels of the releases of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to manufacturing, Microsoft has released some details on its new-generation tracks for those software releases.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 15, 2006
Microsoft follows product releases with new-generation certifications that focus more on job skills.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 15, 2006