Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 08, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Long-awaited update to Microsoft messaging platform goes RTM; security suite also gets rolling.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 08, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As businesses start to kick the tires on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007, and consumers get ready to gear up for Vista in particular, Microsoft understandably is preparing for the inevitable onslaught of support calls.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 07, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Embattled former and current HP execs expected to settle state lawsuit over pretexting scandal
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 07, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft puts four new exam in front of testers.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- December 07, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Trio resold sharply discounted educational versions of software to nonacademic customers.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 07, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft issued an Advance Bulletin today stating it will release six fixes for various flaws next Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled "Patch Tuesday" update.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- December 07, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that the PC maker is shipping a unified, networked storage system based on the software giant's Unified Data Storage Server 2003.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 06, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Novell Inc. announced this week that its edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will offer support for Microsoft's Office Open XML format by the time the consumer release of Office 2007 ships at the end of January.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 06, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Two-steps to sanity ... er ... a cleaner server. 
                    
			            - By Jeffery  Hicks
- December 06, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A newly disclosed flaw in Microsoft Word could let malicious hackers take control of victims' computers by sending them e-mail with a Word document attached.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 06, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced Tuesday it is shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 05, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Here’s a script that enumerates all shared folders on all computers in your domain.
                    
			            - By Chris  Wolf
- December 05, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Gates deposition from 1998 tobe used in case in lieu of appearance that would "cause disruption."
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- December 04, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Plus: Yahoo! e-mail addresses getting rejected by U.K. site, and yet another Microsoft exploit -- this time for PowerPoint.
                    
			            - By Russ  Cooper
- December 04, 2006