Microsoft is shipping Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of its PowerShell 1.0 command line environment and scripting language for Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/28/2006
The general counsel of Hewlett-Packard Co. announced her resignation Thursday, shortly before the company's former chairwoman told Congress she was never advised that HP's spying probe involved illegal tactics.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2006
IBM Corp. is recalling 526,000 laptop batteries worldwide made by Sony Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2006
Symantec Corp. accused Microsoft Corp. of abusing its monopoly in deciding which security products can run on its upcoming operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2006
CA Inc. is so confident in its products, it is offering up to $1,500 for computer repairs should users of its anti-virus software get infected.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2006
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has released the first beta of its Forefront Security package for SharePoint, the company's portal technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/28/2006
A federal judge dismissed a major portion of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit against archrival Intel Corp., ruling that AMD cannot sue in the U.S. for Intel's alleged monopolistic tactics overseas.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2006
A new vice president in the Microsoft Enterprise Partner Group intends to foster more direct and consistent communication between the international headquarters in Redmond and high-value enterprise partners overseas. While direct communication with those partners was previously done mostly through Microsoft subsidiaries, the subsidiaries will continue to play the major role in managing the partners in their geographic areas.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/27/2006
Shares of software maker Red Hat Inc. plummeted Wednesday, a day after the company said its second-quarter profit slipped 34 percent on stock compensation expenses.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2006
An overhaul of how Microsoft deals with disability access technologies will take form in the next generation of the company's flagship programs.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2006
Microsoft Tuesday announced the broad public release of a beta developer kit for the .NET Micro Framework at the Embedded Systems Conference being held in Boston.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/27/2006
Microsoft has begun beta testing its upcoming System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) version 2, the company said Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/27/2006
Intel Corp. plans to begin shipping microprocessors that have four computing engines on a single chip -- products that analysts say will help it win back market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2006
Developers who build Web applications are more concerned about security, while corporate resources and processes that increase application security aren’t as forthcoming.
Wallop, a startup spun out of Microsoft Corp.'s research lab, is launching the test version of an online social networking site with the premise that people will want to pay extra to look good.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/26/2006
Google services were slow or inaccessible to some users Tuesday. The cause of the glitch was not immediately known, nor were any details available on how widespread it was.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/26/2006
Partway into testing of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, Microsoft has released an interim build of the system to be tested on the side by a subset of beta testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/26/2006
Microsoft Corp. released an out-of-cycle patch for a critical vulnerability in Windows and IE relating to Vector Markup Language.
Trying to squeeze more profit from its crucial services division, IBM Corp. is launching an effort to sell more repeatable "products" out of that unit and reduce its reliance on labor-intensive, customized consulting contracts.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/26/2006
A key Microsoft executive disclosed this week that the coming Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 may not be totally compatible with Windows Vista -- though it remains unclear what his statements mean.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/26/2006