System builders in the Microsoft Partner Program now have something tangible to offer consumers and small businesses that are looking for new computers running Windows Vista.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2007
Under threat of new multimillion fines, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it had signed up its first licensee for a scheme EU regulators told it to set up three years ago to share code that helps servers work with the Windows operating platform.
- By The Associated Press
- March 08, 2007
Microsoft plans to retest two Vista exams, 70-621 and 70-622, that were originally beta tested in January and February this year.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 08, 2007
The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business.
- By The Associated Press
- March 07, 2007
Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2007
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista -- as promised.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2007
An update still hasn't resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- March 06, 2007
Microsoft announced Tuesday that its FRx Software subsidiary will ship a significant update to its budgeting and planning tool for organizations this spring.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 06, 2007
Novell quietly announced Monday it is shipping an Office OpenXML/Open Document Format translator that works with its own edition of the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 06, 2007
Dell Inc.'s fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent because of weak sales of laptops and notebooks, and the computer maker still faces an unresolved federal accounting probe, customer service complaints, several shareholder lawsuits and stiff competition from rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- March 02, 2007
The European Union threatened Microsoft Corp. on Thursday with fines as high as $4 million a day, claiming the software company was still not offering a fair deal to rivals seeking to make their products more compatible with Windows.
- By The Associated Press
- March 01, 2007
Steelray Software announced it is shipping two add-ins -- one updated and one new -- for Microsoft Project.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 01, 2007
For the first time in 22 years, daylight saving time starts three weeks sooner and ends one week later than normal. Although the consequences from an earlier "spring forward" and later "fall back" doesn’t represent the level of threat imagined with Y2K, there are enough little snafus and "gotchas" to keep any IT manager busy for the next couple of weeks.
- By Chris DeVoney
- March 01, 2007
Filter out Vista noise -- it's really about business customers.
- By Paul DeGroot
- March 01, 2007
SharePoint and Vista implementations head the list of opportunities that Microsoft's new product wave offers partners -- but taking advantage of them requires careful preparation.
- By Paul Desmond
- March 01, 2007