Microsoft considers discounts or other promotions during holidays to entice consumers to upgrade PCs to Vista, months before it may hit stores.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2006
CrossTec Corp. announced it is shipping an updated version of its Activeworx security event management software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/23/2006
Microsoft has filed three lawsuits against "cybersquatters" who hope to profit from typo-misdirection-based pay-per-click advertising.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2006
Microsoft to release four versions of Windows in South Korea that comply with antitrust ruling.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2006
IBM Corp. said Wednesday it will spend $1.3 billion in cash to acquire Internet Security Systems Inc., which performs network monitoring and analysis services for companies.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2006
The good news for hardware vendors is that growth in revenues for so-called "volume servers" -- servers that cost $25,000 or less -- continued to grow in the second quarter.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/23/2006
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