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Microsoft Windows chief jumps ship for Juniper
News Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's online and Windows chief and a key figure in the company's failed Yahoo takeover effort, is leaving the company to become chief executive at Juniper Networks, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday.
[July 24, 2008, 8:27]
Microsoft Windows Cafe to open in Paris
News Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it plans to open a Windows Cafe in Paris, where people will be able to try out the latest from Redmond while drinking a cup of coffee. The cafe will open on 22 October — the day Windows 7 launches — Microsoft...
[September 24, 2009, 12:53]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile management tool
News Microsoft is to release its first server-based tool for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. System Centre Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM), which will interoperate with an as-yet unspecified future version of Windows Mobile, will aid...
[October 23, 2007, 11:30]
Microsoft announces Windows Server 2008 R2
News Microsoft has released details of the upcoming second release of its Windows Server 2008 operating system at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week. Microsoft also said that Server 2008 R2 has many features specifically...
[October 30, 2008, 10:39]
Microsoft plans 'Windows 7' release
News Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows — known internally as version "7" — within roughly three years. While the company provided few details, Windows 7, the next client version of the operating system, will be among the...
[July 23, 2007, 7:35]
Microsoft wants Windows on supercomputers
News Microsoft will sell a version of Windows for high-performance computing -- a niche in which rival Linux is blossoming -- with a first version planned for the second half of 2005. As first reported by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com, the Windows...
[June 24, 2004, 9:35]
Microsoft prepares Windows patch CD
News Microsoft is planning to begin testing next week a security CD designed to allow users of older Windows systems to easily bring their PCs up to date -- a new attempt to change a situation that has been a boon to virus writers and spammers.
[December 5, 2003, 16:10]
Microsoft sets Windows Server 2003 RTM date
News The six versions of Windows Server 2003 due to launch in April will be followed by a seventh, called Windows Small Business Server 2003, due late summer, said Mark Tennant, Microsoft's Windows servers product marketing manager, speaking to ZDNet UK.
[February 24, 2003, 6:09]
Microsoft: Windows 7 for servers to be minor release
News Microsoft said on Monday that the server version of Windows 7 will not be a major release and will bear the name Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft declined to discuss what will be in Windows Server 2008 R2, but a spokesman confirmed that it is the...
[August 19, 2008, 8:47]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5
News Microsoft has revealed Windows Mobile 6.5, along with an application marketplace and web-based backup and synchronisation service for the operating system. In a Q&A session during Microsoft's press conference, the company's senior vice president...
[February 16, 2009, 15:39]
Microsoft investigates Windows 7 vulnerability
News Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is looking into a report of a vulnerability in Windows 7 and Server 2008 Release 2, which could be used by an attacker to remotely crash a computer. The company is investigating claims of a "possible denial...
[November 12, 2009, 9:17]
Microsoft sets Windows 2000 D-Day
News Microsoft will launch its long-awaited Windows 2000 product on February 17, 2000, officials told partners attending Windows 2000 Marketing Day in Las Vegas this week. Word of Microsoft's plans to launch Windows 2000 in February began leaking out...
[October 27, 1999, 8:29]
Microsoft expands Windows for Smart cards and GSM phones
News Microsoft announced Thursday it will expand its Windows for Smart cards initiative to embrace the GSM platform. Jonathan Roberts, general manager of Microsoft's productivity appliance division said: "GSM carriers will not only be able to choose...
[October 7, 1999, 15:44]
Microsoft launches Windows Server 2008 RC1
News As Microsoft starts the final countdown to what it is billing as the "biggest launch wave in the company's history", it has announced that customers can now download Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1.
[December 6, 2007, 11:32]
Microsoft withdraws Windows Mobile update
News Office Mobile 6.1, an update to Microsoft's mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, will let users of Windows Mobile 6 devices read Office 2007 documents for the first time. Jason Langridge, a senior business manager in Microsoft's UK-based...
[September 28, 2007, 15:27]
Microsoft halts Windows 7 tool after GPL code claims
News Microsoft has halted distribution of a tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on netbooks amid allegations that the utility makes improper use of open-source code. For more on this story, see Microsoft pulls Windows 7 download tool on CNET...
[November 11, 2009, 11:17]
Microsoft releases Windows update blocker
News Microsoft has released a toolkit to let businesses block service pack updates for Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. The toolkit, available from Microsoft's download site, will block service packs for limited periods of time.
[December 10, 2007, 14:39]
Microsoft releases Windows Live updates
News Microsoft on Wednesday said it is ready with a new update to its Windows Live suite of applications. Windows Live Movie Maker brings some, but not all, of the features found in the movie-making application built into Windows, adding the ability to...
[September 18, 2008, 11:54]
AOL, Microsoft dissolve Windows XP talks
News Discussions between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft over whether AOL's online service software would be bundled with Windows XP collapsed on Saturday. During a phone call, Microsoft Windows group Vice President Jim Allchin and America Online Time...
[June 18, 2001, 10:10]
Microsoft releases Windows code
News Microsoft has made the source code of its Windows CE 3.0 embedded operating system available to developers in a bid to compete with the "open source" software development model that has become popular in recent years.
[July 23, 2001, 14:13]
