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
Microsoft's board increased the company's quarterly dividend by a penny to $0.09 a share.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/15/2005
Role-based administration is a major feature in the beta, which is limited to about 1,400 testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/14/2005
Microsoft finished development this week on the Web access component of its Office Communicator client.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/14/2005
Microsoft and Whale Communications announced a partnership that enables Whale to sell an integrated solution that combines Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 with the smaller firm’s Intelligent Application Gateway product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/14/2005
VMware made a splash in November when it released the free VMware Player, which lets users run pre-built VMware virtual machine configurations on client PCs. Now the company has taken its efforts a step further, teaming with Mozilla and Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu Linux) to create a pre-built virtual machine for the Firefox Web browser.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/13/2005
Microsoft shipped at the end of last week Service Pack 1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0, a quiet update that fixes 200 or so bugs but that adds no new features to the revered database development tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2005
Attackers are already exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer that Microsoft released a patch for Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/13/2005
All of the noise and attention surrounding the release last month of Firefox 1.5 appears to have helped the alternative Web browser’s market share, even if those gains are still only in fractions of percentage points.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/08/2005
XenSource announced this week that it is shipping version 3.0 of its Xen system virtualization environment built on the open source Xen hypervisor.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/08/2005
Microsoft plans to post two security bulletins for Windows next Tuesday, and at least one of them addresses a critical vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/08/2005