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Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion.
05/23/2006
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U.S. chip maker Intel Corp. will design cheaper computers to be made by manufacturers in India for the country's rural poor.
05/23/2006
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Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released new test versions of what company co-founder Bill Gates called its three most important products.
05/23/2006
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Much of Montana's government computer system crashed Monday, idling state employees and frustrating those who wanted to do such things as renew driver's licenses and obtain fishing permits.
05/23/2006
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New Horizons becomes the largest network of Microsoft Gold Partners, it reports.
05/22/2006
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South Korea rejected appeal by Microsoft to overturn an antitrust decision against the world's largest software company.
05/22/2006
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For millions of PC users, the privacy-snatching programs known as spyware have been nothing but a headache as they swipe personal information, slow systems to a crawl and crash computers. For Webroot Software Inc., the annoying programs have been the foundation of success.
05/22/2006
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Microsoft developed technology for people to pay by the hour to use
a computer in their own homes.
05/22/2006
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An inside look at prominent deals within the Microsoft partner community. Part of an occasional series.
05/19/2006
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After months of being noncommittal, Microsoft Thursday finally published the system requirements for Windows Vista, and set up a Web site to help users plan ahead for Vista’s availability early next year.
05/19/2006
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Just five months after its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. gave Hewlett-Packard Co. the No. 1 ranking in worldwide personal computer shipments, a new batch of market numbers delivered some stomach-turning news to HP.
05/19/2006
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Piracy in China tempers the enormous business opportunities there.
05/19/2006
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The world's largest PC maker says it was merely bowing to customer demand when it decided to start offering microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in some of its high-end servers.
05/19/2006
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Symantec accused Microsoft of misappropriating its intellectual property and breach of contract.
05/19/2006
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July 11 support deadline looms for Windows 98/SE/Me.
05/19/2006
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From the business wires: a tool for monitoring Web apps, SharePoint connectors, and a self-extracting file compression program.
05/19/2006
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Security software maker Symantec Corp. accused Microsoft Corp. in a federal lawsuit Thursday of misappropriating its intellectual property and breach of contract.
05/19/2006
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Wall Street punishes Microsoft for playing close to the vest on investment plans.
05/19/2006
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is buying out secure access software vendor Whale Communications, in a move aimed at broadening its security offerings to enterprise customers.
05/19/2006
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More than 300 Best Buy employees now certified under training and certification program, jointly developed with Microsoft.
05/18/2006
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Score one for the spammers. The company behind a controversial anti-spam initiative is shutting down the service after spammers began threatening users and rendering the company's site inaccessible.
05/18/2006
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Company's corporate restructuring designed to allow Microsoft Corp. to make decisions more quickly, says top exec.
05/18/2006
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Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there.
05/18/2006
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Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has trained 300 Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) on its way to a goal of 900 MCPs as it ramps up its services capabilities for a major push into small business sales.
05/18/2006
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Hey Microsoft, want to really help your customers? Publish your volume licensing price list! (Yes, all of it!)
05/18/2006
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In a post-keynote press conference with Microsoft executives and Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, Microsoft pushed its vision for the next version of SharePoint Server, scheduled to ship to business customers in October.
05/17/2006
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Intel chips sweep through the Mac landscape; what's left to complete the transition are high-end Macs.
05/17/2006
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Windows Live Search, competitor to Google Search, offered as a free download.
05/17/2006
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Rivals Symantec and McAfee band together to bust eBay software pirates.
05/17/2006
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new laptop rebate program to encourage system builders in the Microsoft Partner Program to focus on mobile systems.
05/17/2006
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DOJ to continue keeping an eye on Microsoft's business practices for two more years.
05/17/2006
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Ten years ago, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told CEOs attending the keynote of his first CEO Summit that the exponential changes being brought about by technology would continue unabated.
05/17/2006
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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday touted the capabilities of the company's upcoming Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
05/16/2006
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HP bests Wall Street estimate of 49 cents per share by a nickel.
05/16/2006
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Microsoft has released the first community technology preview (CTP) of its Expression Web Designer tool targeted for designers producing professional Web sites.
05/16/2006
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Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. say a new method for cramming data onto magnetic tape will increase storage capacity at least 15 times, enough to squeeze the text from 8 million books onto a cartridge half the size of a VHS tape.
05/16/2006
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in personal computer microprocessors, plans to unveil chips Tuesday it says will lead to more power-efficient PCs that are smaller and more stylish.
05/16/2006
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EMC Corp. acquires IT professional services firm Interlink.
05/15/2006
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Margo Day, the leader of the U.S. Partner Group since September 2001, is moving into an alternate role in the Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners organization.
05/15/2006
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Citing Microsoft Corp.'s lapses under part of a landmark antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company's business practices until at least November 2009.
05/12/2006
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In Europe on Monday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC jointly announced they have ratified the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard meant to enable documents from various desktop applications to be interchangeable.
05/11/2006
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The company behind the BlackBerry on Thursday said it will launch its mobile e-mail service in China, where it already has homegrown competition: the Redberry.
05/11/2006
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DataCore says it is shipping an entry-level version of its enterprise resource analysis, monitoring and reporting tool for Windows and storage area networks (SAN).
05/11/2006
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Following in the footsteps of rivals, Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest computer maker, unveiled laptops with spiffier designs as well as more powerful processors.
05/10/2006
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Cisco Systems Inc., a leading maker of networking gear, is working to temper Wall Street's expectations for its current quarter.
05/10/2006
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A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United
States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks -- including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems.
05/10/2006
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Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.
05/10/2006
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Microsoft said this week that it's shipping the first beta test version of Speech Server 2007 on schedule, and plans to release the final code this fall.
05/10/2006
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Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
05/09/2006
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While Windows Vista gets all the attention, embedded version of Windows quietly being revamped.
05/09/2006