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Visual Studio and SQL Server delayed again
News The changes are meant to simplify the purchase process and make the cost of the company's tools suites easier to compare to competitive products, said Prashant Sridharan, lead product manager in Microsoft's developer division.
[March 21, 2005, 17:05]
Sun: MS's Java letter was a 'publicity stunt'
News Saying he wanted to "cut through the rhetoric" that surrounds Java, Alan Baratz, president of Sun Microsystems Inc.s JavaSoft division, today unleashed a little of his own, accusing Microsoft Corp.of doing anything in its power to preserve its...
[September 23, 1997, 10:19]
A Year Ago: MS' Java letter was a 'publicity stunt'
News Saying he wanted to "cut through the rhetoric" that surrounds Java, Alan Baratz, president of Sun Microsystems Inc.s JavaSoft division, today unleashed a little of his own, accusing Microsoft Corp.of doing anything in its power to preserve its...
[September 24, 1998, 6:08]
Windows ME: Available for you in September
News There won't be the big hoopla thing, like we had with Windows 95," said Art Pettigrue, a product manager with Microsoft's Consumer Windows division. According to Microsoft internal documents, Whistler will be available in many 32-bit and 64-bit...
[June 20, 2000, 8:46]
A Year Ago: Friction behind AOL-Netscape-Sun deal
News Netscape was then working on low-end browsers for Network Computers in its Navio division. It was explained to me that after Microsoft in their [Netscape's] words undercut their business, they could not afford to continue the project, so they had...
[May 10, 2000, 7:01]
Friction behind AOL-Netscape-Sun deal
News Netscape was then working on low-end browsers for Network Computers in its Navio division. It was explained to me that after Microsoft in their [Netscape's] words undercut their business, they could not afford to continue the project, so they had...
[May 10, 1999, 8:48]
Comdex: Get your alien head PC here
News We want the PC to become transparent," said Eric Chanoit, worldwide e-PC marketing manage for HP's Business Desktop Division. With so much of the buzz at Comdex Fall 2000 focused on portable products -- notably Microsoft's Tablet PC reference...
[November 17, 2000, 9:43]
MS must stop bundling IE 4.0
News What's most important is that starting tomorrow, choice will be restored to the market," said Joel Klein, who heads the Justice Department's antitrust division. He said Microsoft will now be forced, at least in the interim period, to end its...
[December 12, 1997, 9:27]
PCs and gadgets battle to be king of the living room
News Michael Toutonghi, vice president of Microsoft's eHome division, agreed, adding that more than a third of PCs are in the family room or living room. The event also put Apple and Microsoft in the unusual position of being on the same side.
[November 20, 2002, 11:29]
Tech giants push MPEG-4 standard
News Windows Media 8 can actually deliver near-DVD-video experience and save about 40 percent of the bandwidth over what MPEG-4 can do," said Michael Aldridge, lead product manager of the Windows Media Digital Division at Microsoft.
[October 5, 2001, 10:05]
Sony and CA protect notebook data
News Mobile users are particularly vulnerable to having their machines damaged, lost or stolen, yet they are also the least likely to perform adequate backups," said Steve Baker, a storage executive in Sony's business division.
[September 12, 2003, 8:55]
Will Postini help Google win over businesses?
News Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google's enterprise division, claims the company is taking security and compliance very seriously. While there has been some interest in the potential of applications such as Google Mail and Docs...
[July 12, 2007, 15:39]
Why HP is different from IBM
News The TSG division is a substantial part of HP with its focus on the systems used every day by companies around the world, the software and the growing services business. And we have smaller relationships with many companies where we perhaps just do...
[March 31, 2008, 16:09]
Mobile giants battle for next generation
News No one form factor will reign," says Ed Suwanjindar, product manager with Microsoft's Mobile Devices division. For all the talk of convergence, the world of mobile Internet devices is actually getting more and more diverse, as companies such as...
[February 21, 2001, 11:16]
BASDA introduces a Code for better code
News More than 80 companies have already signed up to the code, including the UK division of Microsoft, Access Accounting, Pegasus and Sage UK. The Business Application Software Developers Association (BASDA) on Wednesday launched a new code of practice...
[October 21, 2004, 11:55]
AOL looks to video to boost IM
News In an interview in July 2001, some six months after the FCC ruling that shepherded in the AOL-Time Warner merger, former AOL division chief executive Barry Schuler described the reasoning behind AOL's decision not to add new features to AOL's IM...
[April 15, 2003, 13:42]
Siemens pins Blackberry to cross-shaped mobile
News The German hardware manufacturer's handset sales have been suffering recently, with the mobile phone division posting an €88m (£58m) loss in the latest quarterly results. The Siemens SK65, launched at an event at the London Stock Exchange on Monday...
[August 2, 2004, 15:25]
Gates may find it's better to be red than dead
Leader Some analysts claim IBM selling its PC division to Chinese firm Lenovo was actually all about Big Blue buying a significant stake in the Chinese market rather than the falling margins in the PC business.
[January 7, 2005, 11:25]
Dell could start making phones
News Gold's predictions are centred around Ron Garriques, the former Motorola handset boss lured to Dell less than two weeks ago to run its consumer division. We believe Dell will aim at both consumers and enterprises with slightly modified and/or...
[February 28, 2007, 12:05]
US Report: Net newcomer Zapata in bizarre bid for Excite
News That division went public in April, leaving Zapata with lots of cash but no core business. Some companies have been successful at it, Wester said, pointing to Microsoft and Japanese firm Softbank (Softbank is the largest shareholder of ZDNN...
[May 22, 1998, 10:13]
