Lawsuits claiming ex-employees violated so-called “non-compete” clauses in their work contracts by leaving one company to go to a competitor are nothing new. Microsoft has been involved in its fair share of them in the past, both for cherry picking other companies’ employees as well as to try to stop defections from its own ranks.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/20/2005
Intel is shipping a pair of new Itanium 2 processors that aim to boost the chips’ performance in compute intensive applications by increasing bus transfer speeds.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2005
Visionpace announces a new style of classroom/on-site training that lets students apply their knowledge in real-world situations.
Microsoft is working to fix a publicly disclosed flaw in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services that can lead to a denial of service attack against certain Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/19/2005
HP on Tuesday announced it is cutting 14,500 jobs worldwide -- about 10 percent of its total workforce -- in an ongoing effort to bolster the computer and printer firm’s bottom line.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2005
Microsoft has purchased an OEM license to use voice-processing software from Global IP Sound, a developer of voice codecs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/18/2005
Last week at the Automotive Conference 2005 in Yokahama, Japan, Microsoft announced the release of a new version of its customizable software platform Windows Automotive 5.0.
At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this month, Austin, Texas-based Neverfail Group announced the introduction of a virtual environment that allows Neverfail partners to present live, on-demand demonstrations of the company’s product line to potential customers via the Internet.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 07/18/2005
From the business wires this week: authentication solutions, search appliances, an enterprise-level file exchange program and a plug-in for encrypting backed-up data.
Real Enterprise Solutions announced Thursday that it is shipping Wisdom, a new integrated change and configuration management tool for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
Softricity is shipping version 3.2 of its SoftGrid Windows application virtualization package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
SonaSoft began shipping its SonaSafe Exchange Standby Solution, an integrated disk-to-disk backup and recovery and disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
Microsoft settled its legal dispute with Alacritech over the TCP Chimney networking technology for offloading network protocol processing, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal clears the way for Microsoft to deliver early next year the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003, an out-of-band feature pack that had been in legal limbo.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2005
Microsoft issued three critical security patches on its July patching day Tuesday, including the fix for a dangerous problem in the JVIEW Profiler for which Microsoft issued a kill bit last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2005
Microsoft could've substituted "Vertical" for the official theme of its Worldwide Partner Conference and it might've been more appropriate than the actual theme, "Velocity."
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/12/2005
It was only about 9:30 a.m, but Steve Ballmer
showed all the energy of a linebacker ready to do battle as he came bounding
onto the stage for his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference
on Sunday.
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/12/2005
An R2 version of Windows Small Business Server 2003 will follow the R2 release of the other editions of Windows Server 2003 by 60 to 90 days, Microsoft officials said at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2005
More than 45 companies took laurels in Microsoft's Partner of the Year awards, held this weekend at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Minneapolis, Minn.
Additional competencies include those for solution providers mobility experts; partnering tools improvements include vastly streamlined registration process.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/12/2005
Fullscope debuts software solutions for process manufacturers, and seven companies join or move up in the Microsoft Partner ranks.