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
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
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
For every dollar Redmond gets, partners see about 18 more.
- By Anne Stuart
- January 26, 2007
The long-delayed launch of the Windows Vista operating system cut into fiscal second-quarter profits at Microsoft Corp., which reported a 28 percent drop in earnings Thursday despite decent revenue growth.
- By The Associated Press
- January 25, 2007
Virtualization vendor VMware announced Thursday it is shipping the public beta version of its Workstation 6.0 product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 25, 2007
On the eve of the consumer launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp. is extending the period in which it will offer support for the previous version, Windows XP.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Computer records containing medical claim information, health data and Social Security numbers of 28,279 health insurance customers of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. were stolen from the office of a vendor in Massachusetts, the company said.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Juror in Iowa antitrust trial against Microsoft dismissed for undisclosed reasons.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Global consumers of XP Home to get extended support past '09, perhaps even longer than 2010.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007