Microsoft announced it has begun shipping Beta 1 of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 edition. However, the beta is billed as "private."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 25, 2006
Microsoft announced this week it is shipping the second beta test version -- which is also the first public beta test -- of Exchange Server 2007, as well as Forefront Server for Exchange Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 25, 2006
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. struck another blow at Intel Corp., its bigger rival in the market for personal-computer microprocessors, as it disclosed plans Monday to buy one of the dominant makers of graphics chips in a $5.4 billion deal that analysts said could fundamentally alter competition in the semiconductor industry.
- By The Associated Press
- July 25, 2006
High-performance computing clusters are largely the domain of Linux. Microsoft executives have designs on those server farms. They envision Windows software powering those multi-node clusters churning in parallel on a single task.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2006
Star Trek, the Sopranos, Seinfeld and ... the Smurfs?
- By Anne Stuart
- July 24, 2006
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2006
Microsoft Certified Architect makes its officiial debut at launch event.
- By Anne Stuart
- July 24, 2006
Microsoft Corp. confirmed Friday it's working on music and entertainment products that are expected to compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular iPod and iTunes music service.
- By The Associated Press
- July 24, 2006
The demand at Microsoft Corp.'s annual meeting of financial analysts next week won't be so much to "show me the money" as to "show me what you're doing with the money."
- By The Associated Press
- July 21, 2006
Business software maker SAP AG said its net profit rose 43 percent in the second quarter on higher U.S. revenues and better margins.
- By The Associated Press
- July 21, 2006
Shares of Dell Inc. plunged to their lowest level in nearly five years Friday after the world's largest computer maker lowered its second-quarter earnings outlook below Wall Street's estimates, due mainly to aggressive price cuts in a slowing market.
- By The Associated Press
- July 21, 2006
Computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s second-quarter profit rose sharply but sales dipped as it struggled amid the aggressive price cuts of larger rival Intel Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- July 20, 2006
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that fiscal fourth quarter earnings fell nearly 24 percent in part because of a one-time legal charge but beat Wall Street estimates.
- By The Associated Press
- July 20, 2006
Microsoft has completed its purchase of application virtualization vendor Softricity, the company said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 20, 2006
Personal computer shipments grew roughly 10 percent in the second quarter despite soft sales in Europe, two influential research firms reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- July 20, 2006