Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division,
and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s best-known business software is for creating spreadsheets, documents and presentations, but the company is hoping to convince corporations that it also can be the one-stop shop for sophisticated communications technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Ohio University's Computer Services department was running seven-figure surpluses and spending on generous benefits for employees while it was failing to make adequate investments in firewalls and other computer security measures, according to an outside consultant's report.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Company's online preview of its new Office business software is part of efforts to drum up more interest in the coming set of releases.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Microsoft throws off the shroud on its unified communication strategy.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/25/2006
Margo Day, who has run the U.S. Partner Group for five years, and Robert Deshaies, U.S. V.P. for SMS&P, swap responsibilities, beginning in July.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/23/2006
Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division, and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/23/2006
VP Martin Taylor resigns abruptly just as Live gets off the ground. Also: search tools for Exchange and SharePoint, a BPEL .NET server and an analysis tool for monitoring servers.
Info storage leader goes deep with latest acquisition.
The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches encompassing millions of people.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/23/2006
Novell this morning announced that its Board of Directors has ousted the company's CEO and CFO.
Publishing software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it signed a multiyear distribution agreement with Web search engine Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2006
The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer is testing the possibility of selling Apple Computer Inc.'s full line of computers in its stores. Currently, Best Buy carries only Apple's iPod music player and accessories.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2006
Adobe has made no complaints against Microsoft is shipping Office without Adobe's PDF file reader, and Adobe so far hasn't filed a complaint with the EU, says the Euro Commission.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2006
Absoft Corp. announced it is shipping its Fortran compiler for 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/22/2006
A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security identification numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2006
The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer is testing the possibility of selling Apple Computer Inc.'s full line of computers in its stores.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2006
Microsoft announced this week it has teamed up with nonprofit licensing organization Creative Commons to provide users with a copyright licensing tool that works in the Office productivity applications suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/22/2006
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Martin Taylor, who was a key lieutenant of CEO Steve Ballmer’s and who was at the center of some of Microsoft’s most high-profile efforts, has left the company suddenly.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2006
Lost in the hubbub last week over the pending retirement of Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft quietly changed the name of a key set of technologies coming with Windows Vista.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/21/2006