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Microsoft offers details on forthcoming app store
News Microsoft on Wednesday offered up more details on its would-be rival to the iPhone's app store. The software maker defended the charge: "Microsoft will run a rigorous certification process to ensure that the end user's experience is optimal, and...
[March 12, 2009, 8:15]
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack
Downloads Office 2003 Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2003.p> Microsoft® Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003. It further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks...
[September 19, 2007, 8:00]
Microsoft CRM 3.0
Downloads While a Microsoft CRM user navigates through the different forms of the application, the add-on records and saves the visited pages. Most Recently Used Add On for MS CRM 3.0 improves your productivity by allowing to quickly navigate to your most...
[December 13, 2007, 7:00]
Oracle witness: Microsoft 'will compete' with SAP
News It's a question of when, not if, Microsoft will compete with SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft in the market for business applications, an Accenture executive testified on Wednesday at the Oracle antitrust trial.
[June 17, 2004, 11:30]
A Year Ago: Microsoft rooting for Linux?
News Although Microsoft has no alternative but to fight the DoJ antitrust case on its own merits, it will be hoping a new rival will enter the market to water down its alleged monopoly position. Following a flood of articles that suggest Microsoft is...
[March 13, 2000, 6:22]
Microsoft's latest hardware: A laptop cooler
News Microsoft has launched a new technology to help keep laptops cooler. It represents a new direction for Microsoft's hardware unit, which is best known for its mice and keyboards. Microsoft on Tuesday also announced new colours for its trendy-looking...
[March 11, 2009, 16:24]
Microsoft details changes to SQL Data Services
News Microsoft has expanded on the details of its strategy for SQL Data Services, which was first announced in February. The next stage of the plan will be to "accelerate the delivery of core relational database features as part of SDS [SQL Data...
[March 11, 2009, 15:37]
Microsoft removes more legal obstacles
News With the settlement on Monday of its long-simmering patent dispute with InterTrust Technologies, Microsoft has cleared away legal concerns that have been looming over many of its most important plans.
[April 13, 2004, 11:05]
Microsoft's hacker bounty is a waste of money
Talkback Microsoft should offer a 1M prize for a virus that can shut down the 5% Macintosh population of the world. Since the people running Mac's aren't doing anything important anyways, nobody will probably care except for the PR people for both companies.
[November 17, 2003, 23:22]
XP uptake 'too slow' - Microsoft
News While Microsoft is pleased with robust sales of new PCs that come loaded with Windows XP, the company has been less than satisfied with the rate at which large companies are installing its latest operating system.
[April 13, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft coughs up to settle another legal saga
News Microsoft ended another long-standing legal dispute on Monday, announcing a $440m (£241m) settlement and licensing deal with InterTrust Technologies, which markets digital rights management tools. Under agreement terms, most users of Microsoft...
[April 13, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft plugs critical holes in Windows
News Microsoft on Tuesday issued patches for critical holes in all supported versions of Windows that could allow an attacker to take over a system by executing code remotely if the user viewed a maliciously crafted image file.
[March 11, 2009, 8:03]
Microsoft scales back Longhorn for 2006 launch
News Microsoft said on Friday that it is aiming to release Longhorn in the first half of 2006 -- a move that will require the company to scale back some of its more ambitious plans for the next version of Windows.
[April 12, 2004, 10:35]
Microsoft gets down to business
News Microsoft is setting its sights on the business software market with a new thrust expected to be announced in the coming weeks. Microsoft also has a little-promoted "solutions" business that includes some Web-based CRM options.
[February 26, 2002, 9:27]
Microsoft UK head: We've grown up
News The last few weeks have been pretty rough for Microsoft. The settlement with Sun looks as though Microsoft is growing up and moving closer to the accepted norms of corporate behaviour. Microsoft has had to be involved in those changes; we took a...
[April 8, 2004, 15:10]
Microsoft to pay millions more to Sun?
News Sun disclosed the 10-year schedule in a filing on Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that detailed the Sun-Microsoft pact, an alliance between bitter enemies that surprised the technology world.
[April 9, 2004, 20:35]
Microsoft: 'We should learn from open source'
Talkback The reason Microsoft is trying to confuse Public Domain with Open source is due to its interest in the SCO-IBM Court case in which SCO is tryin to invalidate the GPL and convince the judge that all GPL software should be classed as public domain.
[November 18, 2003, 12:59]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
News Microsoft has created a special software licence for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 that allows charities and schools to use second-hand PCs without breaking the company's end user licence rules. The catch is that because the computers were sold with...
[April 8, 2004, 17:50]
Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection
Talkback This shows that Microsoft do not have much faith in their own server software, if they have to resort to using linux software on their own server. This shows that Microsoft, themselves believe that Linux, is the better software for running servers.
[November 18, 2003, 17:37]
Microsoft finds several 'critical' Web glitches
News Microsoft has released patches for two security holes in its Internet software that could allow hackers to read files off a user's computer or information in Web pages that they visit. The company also patched server glitches that could let...
[February 25, 2002, 17:31]
