Microsoft Corp. is preparing to release privacy guidelines based on its own internal practices in hopes of getting companies to adopt more cohesive standards for safeguarding people's personal information.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
ThinkPad notebooks will now allow users to encrypt their hard drives at the press of a finger.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Plus, MS sponsors video game safety tour, TopCoder competition hits the Web, more.
Microsoft marketing Vista as a cost savings to businesses in energy consumption, reduced management headache.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Symantec, McAfee and other security vendors to gain access to information needed to make their products work with Vista's security features.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Microsoft's release last week of its Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack (OBA RAP) for Supply Chain Management is the first in a series of technical resources. OBAs are designed to help guide the development of what Redmond calls "a new breed of applications" that use Office 2007 as a platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/16/2006
Europeans need to be reassured that radio frequency identification chips won't betray their privacy and can be turned off if desired, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2006
Company says changes to OS will also be made to accommodate EU, Korea.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/13/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Friday it is on track to deliver the new Windows Vista operating system to its volume license customers around the world in November and to the general public in January.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/13/2006
The government of Libya has reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers for all of the nation's 1.2 million schoolchildren, <i>The New York Times</i> reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2006
Long beta testing phases planned for exams aimed at Windows Mobile application developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/12/2006
Computer hackers have exploited weaknesses in the security technology of a Puerto Rican bank to siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars out of two U.S. Virgin Islands government accounts, a finance official said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2006
Microsoft's services chief, Rick Devenuti, will retire at the end of this year after 19 years with the company.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/12/2006
The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the static random access memory market, communications chip-maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2006
Microsoft officially ended support for SP1 and SP1a on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/12/2006
Hormel Foods loses bid to trademark the word known more commonly through frequent usage as "unsolicited e-mails."
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2006
Call them the M & Ms -- Microsoft and Mozilla, that is. Both are readying major new versions of their browsers --Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 -- for release in the next few weeks.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/12/2006
Microsoft released 10 patches, but many organizations didn't get the patches until hours after they were released due to a glitch in Redmond's automatic distribution system.
Google Inc. snapped up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion Monday in deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a leading role in the online video revolution.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2006
New word processing and spreadsheet programs available for free mark the Internet search leader's latest effort to provide alternatives to Microsoft applications.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2006