Users who have wanted to save Microsoft Office documents in Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) were frustrated earlier this year when Redmond announced it would not include the capability as a native function in Office 2007 as it had previously announced.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/12/2006
Microsoft Corp. plans to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo and Google.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/11/2006
As expected, Microsoft released three patches today to fix one critical Office vulnerability as well as two Windows flaws.
Microsoft Corp. today issued a security advisory telling customers it is "investigating" reports of new zero-day code aimed at Microsoft Word 2000.
We put these rivals' tools to the test in a win, lose or draw contest. The overall winner just might surprise you.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2006
You set the policy, Endforce ensures that it's followed.
- By Erik Westgard
- 09/01/2006
Mary Jo lists her 10 favorite blogs by Microsoft employees.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 09/01/2006
Microsoft's recent acquisition of SSL VPN provider Whale could be a good catch for remote access.
- By Joern Wettern
- 09/01/2006
With Novell emerging as a Linux powerhouse, CEO Ron Hovsepian sets his sites on Microsoft.
The Microsoft official responsible for releasing Windows Vista builds explained in an interview published on the Vista Team Weblog this week some of the intricacies of how the build numbering scheme for Release Candidates works.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/31/2006
A southern Indian state plans to switch all school computers from Microsoft Windows to the free Linux operating system, an official said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/31/2006
Microsoft will discontinue all public support of Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) on Oct. 10.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/30/2006
Microsoft to charge $239 for Windows Vista through retailer Amazon.com's Web site.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/29/2006
Microsoft on Tuesday made available for public download 100,000 copies of a "pre-Release Candidate 1" (RC1) of Windows Vista hoping to enlist the aid of additional beta testers to swat down any last-minute bugs.
Whoops. In an apparent repeat of the revelation of Office 2007 pricing earlier this year, Amazon.com and Microsoft Canada seem to have lowered the veil on prices for Windows Vista's various incarnations a bit early.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/29/2006