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
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
- 01/29/2007
Microsoft is ready to begin consumer sales of its new Vista operating system just after midnight tonight.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2007
Gates promises Vista will wow PC buyers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2007
RCP invites readers to a first-time event in Florida.
"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
- 01/29/2007
In dueling announcements, Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip transistors as the technology shrinks to the atomic scale.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2007
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
- 01/29/2007
Microsoft and HP partner to challenge IBM in the market for enterprise services.
For every dollar Redmond gets, partners see about 18 more.
Update on the Microsoft Certified Architect Program
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
- 01/25/2007
Microsoft is shipping a Firefox plug-in version of its Photosynth 3D photo processing software technology preview.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/25/2007
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
Global consumers of XP Home to get extended support past '09, perhaps even longer than 2010.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
The ever-expanding LeBron James empire is entering a new realm. Microsoft Corp. is using the NBA star to promote next week's consumer release of its new Windows Vista operating system. James will make what a Microsoft spokesman described Tuesday as cameo appearances on national television commercials that will begin airing Jan. 30.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
TOKYO: Microsoft Corp. plans to extend the free support period for its Windows XP Home Edition software at least one year longer than originally planned, a news report said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that CEO Mark Hurd received an $8.6 million bonus in 2006, a year of strong performance but one plagued by scandal over its shady boardroom spying antics.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
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
Bankers association reports that hackers have made fraudulent transactions using hacked TJX customer data.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007