Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
The European Commissioner for Competition warned Microsoft on Thursday that it is facing fines of nearly $2.4 million per day unless it immediately delivers complete documentation of its programming interfaces, particularly those for work group servers, to enable competitors to interoperate with Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/22/2005
Research group IDC has upgraded its projections of global PC shipment growth for the fourth quarter of 2005 and calendar 2006. It seems that, even as growth slows, it’s nonetheless still continuing to grow, and more quickly than earlier estimates had predicted.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
Get ready for more colorful graphics on Google pages. That may be one of the most visible outcomes of a deal between the king of search engines and America Online.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/21/2005
CommVault announced it is shipping version 6.1 of its QiNetix data management suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/21/2005
Microsoft said it and partner SAP will provide a technology preview of their jointly developed “Mendocino” product to 40 customers and 10 partners on Friday, right on schedule.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/21/2005
As promised, after skipping November, Microsoft began shipping the December Windows Vista community technology preview (CTP) to customers and partners this week. Among other features, the latest build debuts a slew of new security capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/20/2005
What do Bill and Melinda Gates have to do with 11 U.S. Presidents, and dozens of world leaders, great humanitarians, dictators, and just plain interesting people on a list that stretches back to 1927?
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/20/2005
Microsoft announced Monday that it has snagged a leading user interface visionary to work in the company's research division.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/20/2005
A handful of individuals abused the Microsoft Action Pack program to obtain hundreds of the cheap software bundles and sell the software online and elsewhere, Microsoft has alleged in a flurry of recent lawsuits.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2005
RPG development solutions provider ASNA announces support for Visual Studio.
From the business wires: Group Policy management software, a solution for migrating customer data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and an 8GB USB flash drive.
Microsoft filed 10 lawsuits in federal court accusing three companies and nine individuals of illegally selling Microsoft software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/15/2005
Quest Software is shipping version 2.5 of its Group Policy Manager tool for creating, testing and implementing Windows Group Policy.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/15/2005
Microsoft recently took another small step in its Trustworthy Computing initiative by obtaining security certification for a number of updated products.
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Visto filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement in connection with Windows Mobile 5, which introduces push e-mail technology similar to Visto’s offerings.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/15/2005
Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 will be generally available on Monday in the United States and Canada, Microsoft said.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/15/2005