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- By Scott Braden
- 01/31/2007
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
- 01/31/2007
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
- 01/30/2007
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
- 01/30/2007
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
- 01/30/2007
Virtualization vendor VMware announced Thursday it is shipping the public beta version of its Workstation 6.0 product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/25/2007
Microsoft says in late March it will release to manufacturing (RTM) the latest version of one of the most significant administration tools in its emerging System Center brand.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/24/2007
A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust lawsuit filed by the distributor of Morpheus file-sharing software against Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA, eBay Inc. and other defendants.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Microsoft is extending its branch office promotion to enterprises with a large number of remote branch sites, with discounts as deep as 43 percent, the company announced Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/24/2007
Microsoft hasn't quite gotten Windows Vista out the door but it has already started working on the first service pack for the new system. But if you're thinking you'd like to be on the list for testing it, that may be difficult.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/23/2007
Some retailers are planning to use tactics normally reserved for must-have electronics such as new video-game consoles when the Windows Vista computer operating system goes on sale to the public next week.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2007
Here comes a new Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. Long delayed, it's the first in several years, so the company plans an enormous marketing campaign to tout the software as a way to get more out of computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/19/2007
With iPod sales still soaring, Apple Inc. reaped record profit during the holiday quarter and stands to remain a Wall Street darling despite issuing a second-quarter forecast that fell below analyst expectations.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/19/2007
International Business Machines Corp. rode cost cuts and software acquisitions to healthy fourth-quarter profits, and the company posted a blockbuster number for contract signings. But investors found reasons to be disappointed, sending IBM stock down sharply Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/19/2007
Microsoft has released its Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment 2007 (BDD 2007), a set of tools and guidance on how to use them to enable IT shops to deploy desktops running Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, 2007 Microsoft Office system, or Microsoft Office 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/18/2007