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
Chip-maker Nvidia Corp. unveiled two graphics microprocessors that offer twice the horsepower of previous models and what the company touts as a design milestone: a multitasking brain capable of efficiently handling a variety non-graphics calculations.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/09/2006
Advanced security bulletin refers to an XML flaw and five other Windows flaws deemed "critical"; unknown whether security rollup addresses recent Visual Studio flaw.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/09/2006
Microsoft announced this week it is adding an enhanced version of Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) to the next major release of Microsoft Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/09/2006
Windows Vista that will be delivered won't be a version "castrated" by EU or software rivals, says Microsoft chairman.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/09/2006
Who says Microsoft can't laugh at itself? The company just released BlueScreen version 3.2 -- the latest version of a screen saver that mimics Windows' dreaded "Blue Screen of Death."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/09/2006
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday the company's upcoming Windows Vista operating system has survived antitrust complaints by rivals who aimed to "castrate" it.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/09/2006
Think of it as Wikipedia for the workplace. Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, now wants to provide businesses with software to create blogging, wiki and news feed services to connect employees on collaborative projects.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/09/2006
In January, Indian mobile users will have access to Microsoft's search engine; service announced as part of Microsoft $1.7 billion investment in the country.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/08/2006
Microsoft announced it released Windows Vista to manufacturing on Wednesday, putting it on schedule to ship to volume customers by November 30, and confirmed that Vista will go to consumers on January 30, 2007.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 11/08/2006
Microsoft announced this week it is nearing release of a new version of its customer relationship management (CRM) software -- Microsoft Dynamics CRM for the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/08/2006
Windows Vista gold code now released to manufacturing.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/08/2006
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top officials Wednesday as part of the company's efforts to boost its presence here.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/08/2006
NTP Inc., which successfully sued the maker of BlackBerry devices for infringement of wireless e-mail patents, said Monday it is suing Palm Inc., maker of the Treo smart phone.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
The virtualization marketplace heated up this week with announcements from both Microsoft and chief competitor VMware. Both announcements came at VMware's VMworld conference in Los Angeles.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/07/2006
Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its online mapping service to include three-dimensional tours of 15 U.S. cities, marking another step in its dogged pursuit of Internet search leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
Adobe Systems Inc. is contributing some of the computer code behind its widely used Flash player to the Mozilla Foundation so that it can be improved upon and blended into an upcoming version of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
For years, computer security software lurked in the background and tried to stop viruses and other malicious programs as they attack your computer. Newer products are trying to keep users from reaching Web sites before the programs can even launch an attack, essentially stopping threats at the source.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
Police in Chile arrested four suspected computer hackers for allegedly belonging to a group accused of breaking into thousands of government Web sites around the globe, including NASA's.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has wrapped up work on its delayed Office 2007 suite and released the code to manufacturing.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006