The SCO Group Inc. suffered another setback in a lawsuit accusing IBM Corp. of donating proprietary Unix software code to Linux developers.
- By The Associated Press
- December 01, 2006
Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later.
- By The Associated Press
- December 01, 2006
The government warned on Thursday of a possible Internet attack on U.S. stock market and banking Web sites from a radical Muslim group, but officials said the threat was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger.
- By The Associated Press
- December 01, 2006
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will expand its program to give people access to the Internet in libraries and other public places to two Eastern European countries and the African nation of Botswana.
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2006
Calling it the biggest launch in the company's history, Microsoft on Thursday formally launched the business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system and Office 2007 desktop applications suite at the Nasdaq market site in New York.
- By Ed Scannell
- November 30, 2006
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
Novell Inc. has appointed Susan Heystee, recently named vice president and general manager for Global Strategic Partners, to manage the interoperability relationship it announced with Microsoft in early November.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 30, 2006
Microsoft kicked off its fourth Strategic Architect Forum -- a gathering of 250 of the most influential software architects among the largest of its worldwide customers -- on the company’s sprawling Redmond campus on Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 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
Three Net tracking firms have released their October figures for search engine popularity and they all show Microsoft continuing to lose ground with users while Google continues to gain, according to SearchEngineWatch.com.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 28, 2006
European Union regulators said Microsoft Corp. handed in on time to meet a Thursday deadline information about its Windows operating software that should help other software companies.
- By The Associated Press
- November 28, 2006
Some of the largest companies in the United States are facing off in a Supreme Court case over gas pedals, with one side hoping the justices will put the brakes on an out-of-control patent system.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2006
In the run-up to the Windows Vista launch on Thursday (the volume licensing launch that is), the news on Microsoft's first major desktop operating system release in five years has been coming fast. A recap of major developments in the months leading up to the launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 27, 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
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
Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations, the U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- November 27, 2006
International Business Machines Corp. settled a federal class-action lawsuit Wednesday, agreeing to pay a total of $65 million to 32,000 technology workers who claimed the company illegally withheld overtime pay
- By The Associated Press
- November 26, 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