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SPA anti-monopoly paper angers MS
News The document, which strikes out at "established incumbents" that might "exploit their market power in existing markets in ways that foreclose rivals' opportunities to reach consumers," never mentions the software behemoth by name, and SPA...
[February 4, 1998, 13:18]
Bluetooth bite blunted by MS pullout
News Bluetooth, the wireless technology that is supposed to connect cell phones, handheld computers and other devices in a personal-area network, remains all bark and no bite. Microsoft will not add support for Bluetooth to its next version of the...
[April 6, 2001, 7:31]
MS Store down
Talkback Looks like the rush has felled the UK store: http://emea.microsoftstore.com/UK/Microsoft/Windows/Windows-Vista/Windows-7-Preview
[July 15, 2009, 12:26]
Weakness found in MS server shield
News A Microsoft Windows 2000 server software package can be crashed by sending it a comparatively simple request for a Web page, a security firm has discovered. SecureXpert Labs reported the vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Security and...
[April 18, 2001, 10:01]
Fireworks predicted over MS/Vodafone Web services deal
News The alliance between Microsoft and Vodafone to push the development of mobile Web services is likely to cause ructions within the industry in the months ahead, analysts have predicted. The two firms announced on Monday that they are joining forces...
[October 14, 2003, 15:40]
MS, Micro Focus team to shine COBOL apps
News Despite the rush to languages such as C, C++ and Java, Micro Focus claims over 150 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today, often running mission critical applications in very large organisations.
[February 5, 1998, 10:19]
Exam site pulls MS certification questions
Blog A site that proudly and explicitly sells "real exam questions" for various IT certification exams has apparently been nailed by Microsoft for selling, er, real exam questions. Pass4Sure still offers questions for those trying to get certification...
[August 19, 2008, 15:36]
MS could deal with UK pay TV firm on WebTV
News The move would take the pair up against BIB, the BSB/BT startup, and could cloud the future of WebTV Networks, which is owned by Microsoft. WebTV is expected to debut in the UK in the next 12 months. A report in this morning's Financial Times...
[February 6, 1998, 14:23]
MS expects no legal hassles on Win 98
News Although Microsoft has long been the subject of close scrutiny by the US Department of Justice, the EC and other business practice watchers, the firm claims that the integration of the Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser with the next version of...
[February 11, 1998, 14:49]
MS to host London Web TechEd conference
News The March 31 one-day conference will spotlight the gamut of the software giant's Internet professional-based activities and is expected to pull in over 800 Web professionals and other delegates. Venue is the Wembley Conference Centre in London.
[February 16, 1998, 10:48]
IBM NT server bundles anger MS
News But IBM's positioning of the products as an enterprise solution that need not run on Microsoft NT machines alone has drawn fire from the Redmond-based software vendor. Microsoft has taken the IBM launch as a veiled attack on Back Office's...
[February 18, 1998, 10:45]
DOJ v MS: AOL, MCI called in
News MCI Communications Corp. MCIC), Sprint Corp. FON), and America Online Inc. AOL) all said Friday they had received civil subpoenas from the Justice Department in its probe of Microsoft Corp.although none is a target of investigation.
[February 23, 1998, 12:16]
Official MS Windows 7 Bloggers
Blog Check this out: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/14/welcome.aspx Its an official blog "Engineering Windows 7" Nothing. That's what is revealed. Until there is real information there, it constitutes PR, propaganda, or "officially" sanctioned...
[August 16, 2008, 10:03]
MS messaging tactics recall browser wars Pt II
News Yet for all of Microsoft's critics, the legal assessment of its competitive practices remains anything but clear, and some antitrust experts even give the corporation good odds to win its pending appeal in federal court.
[June 7, 2001, 16:02]
MS messaging tactics recall browser wars
News The battle over today's instant messenger market is vintage Microsoft, whose strategy enemies call "the three Es" in a parody of the company's marketing mantra: embrace a rival's technology, extend it to work best with Windows, and extinguish the...
[June 7, 2001, 16:02]
A Year Ago: MS gives IE 4.0 public preview
News Microsoft this morning gave the first public pre-release viewing of Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE 4.0) at the Windows Show '97 at Olympia, London. In what it called a Platform Preview version, Microsoft demoed new features of the browser including...
[February 25, 1998, 6:00]
MS plans March 9 ship for Office SME 2.0
News Instead, the firm will tout Office Small Business Edition (SBE) version 2.0, a new release scheduled for March 9. The move should quell fears of a repeat of last year's debacle which saw non-US PC vendors complaining of paying substantially more...
[February 25, 1998, 10:24]
McNealy: MS must be scrutinised
News Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW) CEO Scott McNealy asked for strong enforcement of existing antitrust laws to reign in Microsoft Corp.during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning.
[March 3, 1998, 15:01]
Barksdale and Dell argue MS cons, pros
News Netscape Communications Corp. Chairman Jim Barksdale told the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning that letting Microsoft Corp.continue its current business practices threatens the industry. We're letting the tail wag the dog," Barksdale said...
[March 3, 1998, 15:09]
MS-backed group lobbies against government open source
News Microsoft and other software companies are ramping up a lobbying effort aimed at convincing governments to think again where it comes to adopting open-source software. The Initiative for Software Choice, which launched quietly in early May, is...
[August 13, 2002, 12:43]
