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Vista versions are so last century
Leader If Vista had been made available with a single low-cost base release and a comprehensive menu of upgrades available online, Microsoft could have demonstrated its understanding of ecommerce — and faith in its own ability to deliver good value to...
[February 27, 2006, 12:55]
Oracle collaborates to standardise suite
News Oracle is readying a new release of the software, due in June, and has promoted it as an alternative for companies that use Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and are facing the prospect of ponying up for upgrades as Microsoft phases out support for...
[February 26, 2003, 14:28]
Vista struggles to attract enterprise users
News And according to research by Forrester Research, most upgrades were from users of Windows 2000 — which lost around six percent of users — rather than XP, which Vista is intended to replace. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a...
[April 3, 2008, 8:23]
AJAX leads Netsuite's latest charge
News Labeled as NetSuite 10.6, the set of ERP and CRM applications promises significant upgrades in areas including browser-based dashboard controls, system customisation capabilities and the addition of tighter integration with Microsoft Office.
[August 5, 2005, 11:05]
Longhorn: If they build it, will anyone come?
News Microsoft spoke of it as a major advance, to which significant upgrades of other Microsoft software would be tied. OS upgrades are one of the more painful things people do. But the toughest test for Microsoft's next release of Windows is still to...
[April 1, 2005, 18:10]
Activating XP
News They want to know if it will affect the software they can install, if it will prevent future hardware upgrades, and above all else they want to know how it will affect their privacy. As a support technician for a major PC manufacturer, customers...
[August 4, 2002, 19:35]
Windows XP ties messaging to .Net
News One, Microsoft is under pressure to come out with an operating system with upgrades compelling enough to get people to upgrade their PCs. Consumers are just getting their first look Windows XP, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft from preparing the...
[October 11, 2001, 16:13]
MS, DOJ settle on non-compliance
News The government dropped its request for a 30-day review period for all Microsoft OS upgrades, and Microsoft has granted any OEM that chooses one of the Windows 95 options not containing IE a 90-day grace period in case requirements are changed.
[January 22, 1998, 18:12]
Windows Server 2003 'debuted strongly'
News And Microsoft is counting on Windows Server 2003 to spur upgrades from large companies, many of which are running the 7-year-old Windows NT 4 server OS. Microsoft plans to use an analyst meeting on Thursday to proclaim, among other things, strong...
[July 24, 2003, 11:11]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
Talkback For the dial-up users, how does Microsoft expect these individuals to download in upwards or 78MB patches & upgrades to protect their systems. Microsoft is known as releasing fixes that break more things then they fix.
[August 13, 2003, 6:45]
EDS to manage desktops on demand
News EDS said it worked with Microsoft on developing a new Microsoft technology called "zero-touch," which provides remote deployment capability for Microsoft operating system upgrades and associated tasks.
[August 20, 2003, 10:05]
OpenOffice.org 2.0 review
Reviews In 2000, Sun made the StarOffice source code publicly available and invited the open-source community to join Sun's developers in shaping future upgrades. StarOffice 8 has more extras, including additional presentation backgrounds and clip art, as...
[December 7, 2005, 12:00]
Microsoft to embed Live services in Windows
Talkback Meaning that if you make it more or less mandatory (highly recommended, default compiler include option, etc) for developers to include Live services libraries into their software the end result would obviously be that plenty of third-party...
[June 21, 2006, 22:50]
Survey: MS licensing rankles customers
News Rather than getting a break on upgrades, the companies will be forced to pay full cost. Under the new programs, customers don't simply buy software and worry about upgrades in the future. More typically, companies would rather make software...
[October 5, 2001, 9:39]
Confusion over availability of 64-bit Vista
News To ensure that people don't try to order upgrades based on unlicensed copies, or install the 32-bit OS on one system and the 64-bit OS on another, users have to provide the software product key. Microsoft is keen to stir up enthusiasm for Windows...
[February 20, 2007, 8:30]
McAfee patents software-as-a-service
News In this case, companies such as Microsoft, which uses a similar process to install upgrades to Windows, could find themselves paying licence fees to McAfee. The move could have wide-reaching effects for any software company looking to deliver...
[August 8, 2001, 15:35]
Windows Server 2003 passes Solaris 9
News The economics of the two companies are very different, with Sun focused on server hardware sales and Microsoft dependent on software upgrades, Prettejohn said. The Internet is seen as a key battleground for the future of the computing industry, and...
[April 14, 2003, 15:48]
CIOs: Integration is in, CRM is out
News While application integration, security and ERP software were the top priorities, Windows 2000/XP desktop upgrades, e-commerce initiatives and Microsoft Office upgrades rated high. The top priorities for chief information officers are applications...
[September 4, 2002, 15:34]
UK may not get Windows 7 family pack
News We're evaluating that, to see how attractive it will be to the market and how effective, as it's been designed for upgrades, and in Europe we will be having the 'E' versions, which are full versions," John Curran, director of the Windows Client...
[July 23, 2009, 12:08]
Windows leak threatens deluge of threats
News Plus, this should probably drive upgrades to the latest version of IE, which can mitigate some other well-known security problems and threats. Microsoft's effort to make Windows more secure was dealt a heavy blow recently when someone apparently...
[March 3, 2004, 10:50]
