Bill Gates says he is going to cut the umbilical and let Microsoft take its own course -- beginning two years from now. Though momentous news, nobody really seemed surprised.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 06/16/2006
In yet another sign that Microsoft clearly understands its products still need to integrate better with others' -- even fierce competitors' -- applications, the company announced this week that it has formed a council on interoperability with members drawn from among its biggest customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2006
Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder, largest stockholder and chairman, announced on Thursday he plans to retire in July 2008. He passed his responsibilities and job title of chief software architect effective immediately to Ray Ozzie who was, until now, one of three chief technical officers.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 06/15/2006
Compuware will begin shipping an updated development tool next week that aims to help application development groups produce better code and achieve higher productivity, the company announced at Microsoft’s TechEd 2006 conference in Boston.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/15/2006
Two third-party firms showcased new development tools designed to work with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System at the company's annual TechEd conference being held this week in Boston.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/14/2006
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday unveiled a line of servers that the company claims will reduce by half the cost of maintaining corporate data centers.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/14/2006
New report says job growth is weaker than IT industry claims.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/14/2006
At its annual TechEd conference in Boston Tuesday, Microsoft announced the beginning of the beta test cycle for System Center Operations Manager 2007, an update to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/14/2006
The Redmond software giant released 12 patches -- eight of which are deemed "critical" -- as part of its regularly scheduled monthly security update.
Microsoft plans to open up senior-level certification to 250 applicants in its first year.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/13/2006
CDW Corp. has long fashioned itself as David to Dell Inc.'s Goliath -- a role CEO John Edwardson embraced when he took a sledgehammer to a Dell laptop at a gathering of senior managers on his very first day.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/13/2006
Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has contained a malicious program aimed at the millions of people who use its e-mail service, which ranks as the world's largest.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/13/2006
Looking to establish more pipelines between its Office 2007 suite of desktop applications and several of its server-based applications, Microsoft on Monday at its TechEd 2006 showed off an early version of a technology that would deeply embed processes and data into Office clients.
A prominent Microsoft Corp. blogger who sometimes bluntly bashed the software behemoth is leaving the company to join PodTech.net, a Silicon Valley video blogging startup.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/12/2006
Quest Software, Azaleos Corp. and Zenprise took advantage of Microsoft’s TechEd 2006 conference in Boston this week to roll out new and updated products that build on Windows infrastructures
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 06/12/2006
Kicking off its TechEd 2006 conference in Boston, Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie said the IT industry is verging on yet another era of technology disruption, this time centering around Web-based services.
A hacker stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department's nuclear weapons agency. </p><p>
- By The Associated Press
- 06/11/2006
Microsoft has released its high-performance computing (HPC) platform -- dubbed Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 -- to manufacturing, meaning it will be available to customers in August, the company said Friday. However, evaluation copies will be distributed at Microsoft's TechEd 2006 developers conference in Boston the week of June 11.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/09/2006
From the business wires this week: database backup tools, a virtualization suite and Windows Vista beta.
Intel Corp. is moving up the planned shipment date of a computer chip that will compete against one from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/09/2006