At least two federal government agencies are refusing to upgrade their computers with Microsoft's Windows Vista.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/22/2007
In an attempt to pull its search efforts out of a slow spiral, Microsoft Wednesday formed a new group to focus on search and advertising, and named two executives to head it.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/22/2007
IBM Corp. it has won a 10-year contract to manage the IT infrastructure of Indian mobile company Idea Cellular
- By The Associated Press
- 03/21/2007
Microsoft Tuesday began shipping the second service pack for Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/14/2007
Visual FoxPro 9 will be the end of the line for Microsoft's under-appreciated desktop database developer tool, the company formally told third-party developers Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/13/2007
A leading analyst, who recently joined Microsoft to become a technology evangelist, quietly went back to his old job last week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/13/2007
At its annual Convergence conference this week, Microsoft will put into place the final pieces of its Dynamics ERP strategy by announcing a handful of new applications and partner programs aimed largely at small and medium-size companies (SMBs).
Normally the switch to daylight-saving time isn't a big deal, but this Sunday, Jeff Ronner has to put people on the case.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/09/2007
DST scramble is on as daylight savings time change occurs this weekend.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/08/2007
Under threat of new multimillion fines, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it had signed up its first licensee for a scheme EU regulators told it to set up three years ago to share code that helps servers work with the Windows operating platform.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/08/2007
The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving his post with the software maker to start his own business, Microsoft people aware of the situation said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/08/2007
Microsoft Wednesday announced it will release this month the public beta versions of Office Communications Server 2007, the company's Voice over IP and unified communications server, and Office Communicator 2007, Microsoft's unified communications client.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/08/2007
Get ready for an anti-climactic Patch Tuesday. Following on the heels of last month’s gonzo Patch Tuesday event -- wherein Microsoft Corp. released 12 new patches – Redmond this month doesn’t plan to patch any security-related flaws.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/08/2007
Sticky notes. White boards. Videogame consoles. For a Microsoft Corp. event designed to show off cutting-edge software inventions, there are a lot of familiar tools on display. That's intentional, said Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond lab, at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/07/2007
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/05/2007
For the first time in 22 years, daylight saving time starts three weeks sooner and ends one week later than normal. Although the consequences from an earlier "spring forward" and later "fall back" doesn’t represent the level of threat imagined with Y2K, there are enough little snafus and "gotchas" to keep any IT manager busy for the next couple of weeks.
- By Chris DeVoney
- 03/01/2007
The European Union threatened Microsoft Corp. on Thursday with fines as high as $4 million a day, claiming the software company was still not offering a fair deal to rivals seeking to make their products more compatible with Windows.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
EventReporter can help make event log management...manageable.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/01/2007