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Microsoft shares source code with AIDS researchers
News The research has included the efforts of roughly a dozen Microsoft researchers, who worked with doctors and scientists in Microsoft labs. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has released to the AIDS research community the source code for four...
[June 14, 2007, 9:08]
Microsoft plans European search R&D centre
News The centre joins Microsoft's more than 40 other R&D centres, including labs in Cambridge, Dublin, Copenhagen and Oslo. Microsoft will set up a Search Technology Centre designed to help its Live Search gain on search leaders Google and Yahoo...
[October 3, 2008, 18:04]
Microsoft seeks better friends
News The two-day event brings thousands of company employees to the giant's headquarters in Redmond to hear presentations from workers in Microsoft Research's five labs, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Silicon Valley; San Francisco; Redmond and...
[March 5, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft takes its own path with next-gen Wi-Fi
News The certification is from the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) and represents a Microsoft guarantee that the equipment can be used on any personal computer with a Microsoft Windows operating system.
[June 11, 2002, 9:12]
Microsoft offers to help Firefox into Vista
News However, the Vista Readiness Labs does includes use of Microsoft's Application Compatibility Toolkit, which tests more of a product than might be explored during normal use. The head of Microsoft's open source business has offered help to get...
[August 22, 2006, 13:40]
Microsoft licenses tech to China
News More recently, though, Microsoft has focused on more narrow deals, including ones covering technology developed by Microsoft Research labs. Microsoft is taking its technology-licensing push to China. This is part of our commitment to investing in...
[October 31, 2006, 10:20]
Microsoft readies patch for critical IE7 exploit
News The risk is believed to be widespread, given that IE7 is the latest version of Microsoft's browser and is bundled with XP service pack 3 and also Vista, said Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications for McAfee's Avert Labs.
[December 17, 2008, 7:54]
Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle
News The company has yet to commit to commercialising Gazelle in any way, meaning it remains just one of scores of projects incubating inside the company's research labs. Naturally, the view that Windows is on a path to irrelevance is not one generally...
[July 8, 2009, 16:01]
Microsoft puts final touches on Office
News We're not seeing much deployment of it, but (there is) tremendous interest, and companies (are) setting up testing labs. Microsoft is finalising plans for the next version of its Office business software, which is likely to include new Web services...
[May 16, 2002, 7:32]
Microsoft blocks Vista driver 'hack' tool
News Atsiv is a free software utility, produced by Linchpin Labs and OSR, which circumvented KMCS. Microsoft on Thursday blocked an application which could have allowed malicious code into the Vista kernel.
[August 3, 2007, 14:17]
Microsoft may ship Windows 7 by next Christmas
News The specific testing itself is done at Microsoft's labs in Redmond, Washington, Howe said. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference on Thursday, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication yet that it is planning on completing Windows 7...
[November 7, 2008, 11:40]
Microsoft targets undergraduate developers
News Universities can gain access to the Visual Studio.Net tools and install it in their computer labs through a $799 yearly subscription with Microsoft's MSDN Web site. Microsoft on Thursday released software development tools aimed at university-level...
[February 28, 2002, 15:50]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
News Yahoo acquired Oddpost in July and said this week that it would buy Stata Labs. Microsoft has set a firmer date for the release of its desktop search software, after Google launched a test version of its rival program for scouring a PC's hard drive.
[October 25, 2004, 8:20]
Microsoft appoints Linux interoperability chief
News Tom Hanrahan, former director of engineering at the Linux Foundation — which was formed by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group — will head up the Interoperability Lab and take the job title of director of...
[June 11, 2007, 14:32]
Microsoft IE claim debunked
News PC Week Labs' tests have shown that this is not the case. Department of Justice and in press releases issued this week, Microsoft officials said IE 3.0 is an integrated component of the Windows 95 operating system, as shipped in OSR (OEM Service...
[December 19, 1997, 11:04]
Microsoft wins latest round in OpenDocument battle
News Sun fellow and vice president of Sun Labs in Massachusetts, are also on the agenda. Standards body Ecma International has created a committee to standardise Microsoft Office document formats, handing the software giant a victory in an intensifying...
[December 13, 2005, 16:15]
Microsoft Surface price tag steeper than anticipated
News There's a session on developing for the Surface as well as three hands-on labs. Microsoft will give those at next week's Professional Developer Conference a chance to do more than just write software for the Surface.
[October 24, 2008, 11:03]
Microsoft may become 'major opponent of patents'
News Bill Weinberg, open source architecture specialist from the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), was an audience member at the LinuxWorld debate and asked the panel if they believed that the idea of the 'thermonuclear option' — where Microsoft...
[October 6, 2005, 13:35]
Microsoft turns room into a PC
News We have all of the technologies to make this happen in our research labs. Microsoft's gesture-recognition technology, Project Natal, could transform the office, according to top company executive Craig Mundie.
[August 3, 2009, 8:08]
Microsoft and AOL get the message
News Dave Maritz, co-chair of the IMPP working group and an Internet strategy consultant for Fujitsu Labs America, said the first draft of a standard could be ready by early next year, with final approval from the group's members coming soon after.
[October 14, 1999, 10:03]
