With Windows Vista's promised ship date to corporate customers less than two months away, the rumor mill has been going wild with reports of phantom release candidate sightings. The latest is that Microsoft may release a new test build on Friday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 05, 2006
Unlicensed copies will run temporarily, slowly restricting access to features over time as copies continue to be used without registration.
- By The Associated Press
- October 04, 2006
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Windows Vista will take much harsher steps to curtail piracy than previous versions of its operating system, including crippling the usefulness of computers found to be running unlicensed copies of the new software.
- By The Associated Press
- October 04, 2006
Microsoft lodges formal appeal against $357 million EU antitrust fine.
- By The Associated Press
- October 03, 2006
Born from VAR roots, the Windows admin tool vendor ScriptLogic treats its partners and customers like gold.
- By Paul Desmond
- October 01, 2006
Microsoft's partner program, now 380,000 companies strong, might have more to do with the company's success than even Microsoft initially imagined.
- By Paul DeGroot
- October 01, 2006
CA Inc. is so confident in its products, it is offering up to $1,500 for computer repairs should users of its anti-virus software get infected.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
IBM Corp. is recalling 526,000 laptop batteries worldwide made by Sony Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
Symantec Corp. accused Microsoft Corp. of abusing its monopoly in deciding which security products can run on its upcoming operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
An overhaul of how Microsoft deals with disability access technologies will take form in the next generation of the company's flagship programs.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2006
Microsoft Corp. released an out-of-cycle patch for a critical vulnerability in Windows and IE relating to Vector Markup Language.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 26, 2006
In hopes of fighting Internet fraud, some online banking sites make customers use "virtual keypads" -- a method of entering passwords on the screen, generally with a mouse.
- By The Associated Press
- 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
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