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MS .doc bug hibernates on Net
News The Google search engine reports that there are over half a million MS Word .doc files presently available for download from dot-com Web sites. US Government Web sites also appear vulnerable to these potential legacy leaks with some 240,000 MS Word...
[May 7, 2002, 14:33]
MS Audio 4.0 will eat MP3...
News Security is what the music industry is looking for, so obviously MS Audio is important. I compared an MP3 file created in Xing software recorded at low/normal VBR mode and compared it to a 32Kbit MS Audio file.
[April 14, 1999, 15:36]
Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
News If you have a copy of MS-Office at work, at school, at home -- are you sure where it came from? OpenOffice.org 2 is a fully featured office suite, similar in functionality to MS-Office. OpenOffice.org has launched a campaign to persuade companies...
[May 4, 2006, 12:35]
Microsoft to attack MP3 with MS Audio 4.0
News Microsoft could announce its MS Audio 4.0 technology as soon as its Windows Hardware Engineering conference in early April, according to sources. MS Audio 4.0 could potentially create music files that are about half the size of MP3 files and with...
[March 18, 1999, 9:38]
Intel delivers cheaper Pentium Ms
News The 700 series Pentium Ms are made with new underpinnings: a 90-nanometre processor design dubbed Dothan, which Intel has said offers a performance boost over its preceding Pentium M design dubbed Banias.
[June 23, 2004, 16:20]
Intel rolls out four low-power Pentium Ms
News The new chips include two ultralow-voltage Pentium Ms with clock speeds of 1.1GHz and the 1GHz and a low-voltage chip in the same family that runs at 1.4 GHz. One sign of this is that they need less cooling than other Pentium Ms.
[July 21, 2004, 12:15]
A look at MS's next OS
News Exclusive MS-DOS applications and real-mode drivers no longer work. Earlier in the week, Betanews.com and another online tester site, Activewin.com, were reporting that Microsoft planned to release a build of Millennium before the weekend was over.
[July 26, 1999, 7:46]
IBM shrugs off MS speech deal
News It is interesting to see other companies recognising the speech market but there was no mention of existing or potential product between MS and L&H," she added, dismissing claims that the deal could signal the beginning of the end to a shrink...
[September 12, 1997, 15:44]
Caldera still pursuing MS case
News Department of Justice and various state attorneys general may be commanding the spotlight with their high-profile legal actions against Microsoft Corp.but, hidden among the mountains of Utah, Caldera Inc.continues to take Microsoft to task over MS...
[February 11, 1998, 9:41]
Red Hat scathing over MS/Novell deal
News The MS/Novell announcement] means Linux has won. Red Hat moved quickly on Friday to pour cold water on Microsoft's partnership with Novell. It published a response on its website within hours of the agreement between Microsoft and Novell...
[November 3, 2006, 12:19]
US Report: MS outlines Y2K program
News Older technology such as Access 2.0, Word for MS-DOS v5 and Office 4x Professional Edition are not compliant. The company soon will post a service pack for IE 4 which will contain the fixes needed to bring the browser and its accompanying platforms...
[June 4, 1998, 10:23]
Cirrus deal gives MS Audio needed boost
News Ask the online music industry what chance Microsoft's MS Audio has to displace MP3 and the answer is no longer an unequivocal "none". Crunch.co.uk, one of the few UK sites selling MP3 tracks from licensed artists, said that although it has no...
[September 28, 1999, 16:28]
US Report: Experts - MS paying fortune in legal fees
News But as the MS-DOJ case widens in scope, the numbers of lawyers taking part has also climbed, the source said. The software giant is simultaneously in litigation with government trustbusters, Caldera Corp.
[September 29, 1998, 15:25]
Lotus US poaches MS Office users
News Users of Office Select (the enterprise version of Office) wanting to upgrade will be encouraged by Lotus to jump ship to SmartSuite at a reduced price, to a product that offers support for MS Office file formats and a Word Menu Help Expert that...
[April 11, 1997, 12:20]
A Year Ago Today: MS sued over IE name
News We'd been using that since before MS was in the Internet business," said Rana, "and they just didn't want to know. Internet Explorer, Microsoft's flagship browser, may have to be renamed if court action by Illinois ISP Synet Inc is successful.
[August 15, 1997, 9:44]
News Burst: MS offered to support Intel P7 processor
News Intel's Steven McGeady had testified that Intel cut multimedia programs under pressure from MS, which he said threatened to pull support for another Intel chip, the upcoming MMX.
[November 13, 1998, 5:25]
Bulletin: MS-DoJ ruling delayed
News Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling in the MS-DoJ ruling will come at 1:30 PM PT instead of at noon, the court said. No reason for the delay was announced. What do you think? Tell the Mailroom. And read what others have said.
[June 7, 2000, 16:37]
Sun vs MS: Let's call the whole thing off
News Take me to Pt II/ MS: Embrace and extend As the legal battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over Java continues to drag on, the specter of Microsoft's C# Java competitor is looming large. At the time Sun sued Microsoft more than three years...
[December 11, 2000, 12:51]
OpenOffice.org gives MS Office a run for no money
News It's so hard to let go. Even those IT managers who want to make the break from Microsoft to Linux can't find the strength to let go of Microsoft Office. They can't imagine something that could replace it.
[November 27, 2002, 9:42]
Microsoft gets ripped - New ripper for MS Audio
News Music Match and Sonic Foundry are both working on a ripper for the new audio format according to Neil Laver, Microsoft's Internet product manager. No dates were given for the arrival of the software. Take me to the MP3 Special
[April 20, 1999, 12:23]
