Despite Microsoft's failure to release a new desktop operating system in the past five years, Windows' previous versions still give the company control of nearly 97 percent of all PCs worldwide, according to a leading Web analytics firm.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/22/2006
Salesforce.com has acquired a four-person startup specializing in paid search technology that will be tailored to work with the online business applications of Salesforce.
Microsoft executives may have a hard time talking about open source software without getting their blood up, but the company appears to be taking a pragmatic approach when it comes to Windows Vista and the growing popularity of the Firefox browser.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/22/2006
Microsoft is disputing claims of a zero-day flaw in its PowerPoint application that could allow remote code execution.
- By Shawna McAlearney
- 08/21/2006
Bob Jones has a lofty idea for improving communications around the world: Strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on the ground and expensive satellites in space.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/21/2006
Authorities in the southern city of Pitesti have broken up four sophisticated Internet crime rings, police said Saturday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/21/2006
It wasn't too long ago when Dell Inc. was riding high on the success of its patented direct-sales model to consumers and businesses, boldly predicting during an April 2005 meeting with analysts that the computer maker would soon swell from $50 billion in revenue to $80 billion.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/21/2006
Dutch auction brings in only $3.8 billion, far short of $20 billion the company was hoping to repurchase.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/18/2006
World's top computer seller still places faith in Sony batteries.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/18/2006
Storage vendor cites strong demand in China among reasons in beating Wall Street estimates.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Dell's newest line of servers and desktops will expand its use of the Intel CPU alternative.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Microsoft confirmed this week that it has hired a well-known security and anti-virus executive.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/17/2006
Although Carly Fiorina was sacked in one of the most humbling ousters in corporate America, her initial moves to reinvigorate Hewlett-Packard Co. are now paying off in HP's healthy profit and recent stock surge.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against testing materials vendor TestKing, alleging that the company is illegally selling the actual answers to its certification exams.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/17/2006
Dell Inc. on Thursday posted disappointing second-quarter earnings amid a regulatory probe.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million laptop computer batteries came as embarrassing news to Sony, which supplied the problem batteries, but proved to be good news for rival Japanese electronics companies Sanyo and Matsushita, pushing the struggling company's shares higher Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/16/2006
Scant details available for two new exams for mobile and embedded device developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/16/2006
Microsoft hints at structure of Exchange Admin track of exams, currently in development phase.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/16/2006
IBM executives Tuesday rolled out a roadmap for the company's investment in new open source areas beyond Linux, in a continuing but quiet assault on Microsoft's territory: the desktop.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/16/2006
Microsoft is shipping the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its next generation data access libraries for the .NET programming framework.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/16/2006