Microsoft has begun the open beta of Service Pack 3 for its aging Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/06/2007
In a memo to Dell Inc. employees days after returning as chief executive officer, Michael Dell said one of the world's largest computer makers is quashing bonuses and reducing managers to help cut costs and steer the company back toward dominance.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2007
Business meetings do not have to be the most despised activity in your work day.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2007
Vista will be a complex installation, but there are a handful of tools that can help ease your pain.
- By Rhonda Layfield
- 02/01/2007
You can influence the honesty of those around you, or at least understand the causes that lead people to be less than truthful.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2007
Skip the Group Policy administration -- here's a free and simple way to set a unique policy for multiple computers.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/01/2007
Early users like Vista's new interface and security improvements, but most are taking a "wait and see" approach.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 02/01/2007
You can almost always bring these together -- and save money in the process. Our licensing guru Scott Braden shows you how.
- By Scott Braden
- 01/31/2007
NEW YORK -- The five-year run-up to Windows Vista culminated on Tuesday with the official consumer general availability of Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. The event was the second-step in the two-tier release, which included the volume licensing release in Nov. 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/30/2007
Retailers around the world stayed open through the wee hours of Tuesday morning to sell the long-awaited Windows Vista operating system, even though most knew customers wouldn't be lining up out the door.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2007
Microsoft and HP partner to challenge IBM in the market for enterprise services.
Microsoft says in late March it will release to manufacturing (RTM) the latest version of one of the most significant administration tools in its emerging System Center brand.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/24/2007
A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust lawsuit filed by the distributor of Morpheus file-sharing software against Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA, eBay Inc. and other defendants.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Microsoft is extending its branch office promotion to enterprises with a large number of remote branch sites, with discounts as deep as 43 percent, the company announced Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/24/2007
Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin building a line of servers that run on chips from Intel Corp. and will receive Intel's endorsement of Sun's Solaris operating system, executives from both companies said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2007
Microsoft hasn't quite gotten Windows Vista out the door but it has already started working on the first service pack for the new system. But if you're thinking you'd like to be on the list for testing it, that may be difficult.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/23/2007
The plaintiffs in Iowa's class-action antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. claim they have uncovered information that indicates the software company is violating its 2002 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/19/2007
State prosecutors offered to drop felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and the four other defendants in the company's boardroom spying scandal if they agree to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, a defense lawyer said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/19/2007
Here comes a new Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. Long delayed, it's the first in several years, so the company plans an enormous marketing campaign to tout the software as a way to get more out of computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/19/2007
The state will likely drop criminal charges against a low-level investigator in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandal because he already pleaded guilty to similar crimes in federal court, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/18/2007