Microsoft made several milestone announcements regarding its database products Wednesday at its SQL PASS conference in Seattle.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2006
EU says Microsoft still short of supplying data to comply with 2004 order.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates told shareholders Tuesday that Windows Vista could be the company's biggest product launch since Windows 95 debuted more than a decade ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft has formed a cross-industry group of software and hardware vendors aimed at enhancing interoperability with its software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/15/2006
Launch might exceed Windows XP expectations, says Redmond chairman.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
Microsoft launched the beta test of its new Forefront Client Security product that aims to help protect business desktops, laptops and server operating systems from viruses, spyware and other threats at its IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/14/2006
Eighty-six percent of IT decision makers say they plan to adopt Windows Vista, and 20 percent say they will move to the new operating system within the next year, according to a new tracking poll sponsored by CDW Corp.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/14/2006
As expected, Microsoft today issued six patches for a variety of security issues, including an XML vulnerability considered to be "zero day."
Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has quietly discontinued a money-losing line of low-cost PCs aimed at helping customers in developing countries get access to the Internet, according to a regulatory filing.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Tuesday launched the world's first "quad-core" processors, a new line of chips that feature four computing brains and improved performance over previous models with just one or two processing cores.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/14/2006
No matter whether Nintendo Co., Microsoft Corp. or Sony Corp. wins the video game console war, there already is one huge victor: IBM Corp., which designed and makes the microprocessors for all three units.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Hundreds of potential jurors report for duty in Microsoft lawsuit.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
If Cisco Systems Inc. has its way, the Oakland Athletics' new ballpark in Fremont, California, will be the stadium of the future.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Small business customers will have access to OS early, much like enterprise businesses. Consumers still have to wait for January 30th.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Zune music player is Microsoft's latest entertainment foray
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Singapore teen faces 3 years' jail for tapping into another's wireless Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Sun Microsystems releases its Java technology as open-source project.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Microsoft turns to musician Robert Fripp to create many of Vista's sounds, including signature start-up sound.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/10/2006