To accompany the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft yesterday announced the final release of a toolkit for assuring that applications will run correctly under the new system. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 31, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cisco Systems Inc. rolled out its real-time video conference system for 50,000 employees worldwide in January, inviting them to test equipment with far-flung friends, family and co-workers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 31, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    American technology giants urged the U.S. government Tuesday to do more to confront China and other countries about Internet censorship. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 31, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Michael Dell, founder and chairman, returns to CEO role at Dell; warns of 4Q shortfall
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 31, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has said that getting third-party developers to build their own applications on top of its Web services will help push its Windows Live initiative over the top. So far, however, despite some interesting applications mashups, the Live community has been a little murky on the details.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 31, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A state computer containing names, Social Security numbers and bank account information for 70,000 Vermont residents was hacked into by a remote user sometime before early December, the state said Monday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    TJX Cos. took a month to make public a computer security breach because it was trying to prevent further damage, the company's chairman said in an online message and full-page advertisement in Boston newspapers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    NEW YORK -- The five-year run-up to Windows Vista culminated on Tuesday with the official consumer general availability of Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. The event was the second-step in the two-tier release, which included the volume licensing release in Nov. 30.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    U.S. regulators said Tuesday that Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to reimburse consumers up to $150 for damage to their computers from CDs with hidden anti-piracy software.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Bill Gates took some ribbing from "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who opened the interview by noting the last major release of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system came in 2001.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Retailers around the world stayed open through the wee hours of Tuesday morning to sell the long-awaited Windows Vista operating system, even though most knew customers wouldn't be lining up out the door.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 30, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Gates promises Vista will wow PC buyers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    RCP invites readers to a first-time event in Florida.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is ready to begin consumer sales of its new Vista operating system just after midnight tonight.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp.'s rivals renewed their call Friday on EU regulators to act against what they say are "illegal practices," alleging that the new Vista operating system is the company's attempt to extend its monopoly to the Internet.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    "Wow" hasn't tended to be a big part of Bill Gates' vocabulary, but to hear him speak in the hours before Microsoft Corp.'s planned launch of the long-awaited Vista operating system, you'd never know it. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In dueling announcements, Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip transistors as the technology shrinks to the atomic scale.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- January 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Don't look now, but word surfaced last week of still another Word zero-day attack. That brings the tally of unpatched Word zero-day attacks up to four. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on Jan. 9 was conspicuously bereft of patches for any of then-extant Word exploits, and -- with a fourth one in the wild, and with proof-of-concept code possibly circulating -- it looks like Microsoft Corp.'s next Patch Tuesday can't come fast enough.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- January 29, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Update on the Microsoft Certified Architect Program
                    
			            - By Anne  Stuart
- January 26, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    For every dollar Redmond gets, partners see about 18 more. 
                    
			            - By Anne  Stuart
- January 26, 2007