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A Year Ago: BT, MCI, MS, Concert spy $28b intranet market
News The powerful alliance of BT, MCI, Concert and Microsoft has laid down a huge challenge to would-be rivals for intranet managed services. The group said today it would provide intranet services based on open Internet standards and using Microsoft...
[November 13, 1997, 8:44]
Jackson pulled into throes of MS-DoJ fray
News The appeals court hearing Microsoft's antitrust appeal gave the company something it didn't ask for -- another crack at US district judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. In a scheduling order issued Tuesday afternoon, the Court of Appeals included time...
[February 7, 2001, 10:28]
MS plays down new IE4 bug
News The bug - a security hole in Internet Explorer 4.0 that allows malicious HTML code to be executed on a victim's PC, potentially running, changing, or deleting files - has not yet affected any users as far as Microsoft knows, said Dave Fester...
[November 12, 1997, 9:39]
MS brewing a 'HailStorm' to battle AOL
News There's more to .Net than just Microsoft's new XP brand name. Publicly, the Redmond, Washington, software giant is working overtime to pitch its new Windows XP operating system and Office XP desktop application suite as key components of its .Net...
[February 15, 2001, 12:21]
MS posts free multimedia browsing tool
News Upon installation, Media Manager integrates with Windows Explorer and all functions can be accessed from the Explorer toolbar. These include the ability to create thumbnail views of motion video files or play back excerpts of sound files.
[January 15, 1997, 9:40]
A Year Ago: MS plans flexible UI
News "We want to address a new set of users with an adaptive, intelligent user interface. There will be seamless connectivity with the broader public network .the Net forces us to bring [desktop and Internet] together and the ultimate client [will be...
[November 6, 1997, 7:00]
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]
MS sees CE on much more than palmtops
News Rather, the software Gargantua sees the operating system at the heart of a panoply of devices from embedded applications through cars, Web-enabled phones and WebTV sets, to cars. We haven't done a really good job of explaining that Windows CE is...
[October 31, 1997, 14:30]
AOL blasts MS instant message service
News "It raises significant and serious privacy and security issues," said Ann Brackbill, senior vice president for communications at AOL. Microsoft is violating the cardinal rule of the Internet by asking AOL Instant Messenger users for their passwords...
[July 23, 1999, 8:10]
MS vows to ramp Mac development
News Microsoft yesterday lent a crutch to Apple with the announcement that it is to set up a 100-staff business unit dedicated to Macintosh application development. While critics pointed out that the move could be designed to win Big Green grace and...
[January 8, 1997, 10:54]
MS: Netscape's "arrogance" deterred AOL
News Netscape's arrogance was one of the reasons America Online chose Microsoft as its primary browser provider, Microsoft Vice President Brad Chase said Wednesday. Chase, under re-direct here in the Microsoft antitrust trial, recalled a lunch he had...
[February 18, 1999, 11:24]
MS forges ahead with Office, BackOffice
News Microsoft delivered a new beta release of its latest Office XP software to corporate clients and released its final version of BackOffice 2000 Wednesday. Microsoft plans to send the so-called Corporate Preview Program release of Office XP to 500...
[March 1, 2001, 9:29]
US Report: Judge persuaded by MS testimony in DoJ trial
News The judge overseeing the US government's monumental antitrust suit against Microsoft yesterday asked a question of his own, suggesting the world's largest software company has made headway in convincing him that its battle against Sun's Java...
[December 11, 1998, 9:14]
Overview: MS, Sun Java tussle
News Microsoft had no obligation under its licence agreement with Sun to provide Java to its customers at all, and Microsoft reserved the right to develop its own similar or derivative technology, the company claims in its countersuit against Sun.
[October 28, 1997, 10:15]
MS, PointCast tie up for IE 4.0
News Microsoft announced yesterday a key content tie-up with PointCast to deliver live newsfeeds via the Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 Active Desktop. The deal turns the screw tighter on Netscape as IE will also become the internal browser for a...
[December 12, 1996, 11:40]
MS owns up to IE problems, plans for future
News The firm said that it had noted complaints regarding the installation, security and accessibility for sensory impaired users, and claimed it had fixed the first and last of those problems with the IE 4.01 release.
[December 18, 1997, 16:04]
Bug found in MS Exchange
News The breach, dubbed "Potential SMTP and NNTP [Network News Transfer Protocol] Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in Exchange Server," affects Exchange Versions 5.0 and 5.5. It allows a malicious user to cause an Exchange server to shut down or stop...
[July 31, 1998, 10:59]
MS says NetCarta buy offers superior Web site control
News "What I see NetCarta bringing to us is capability in the area of Web content management," said Russ Stockdale, group product manager for the personal and business systems group at Microsoft. It fills out a story we've already begun, giving us tools...
[December 12, 1996, 9:10]
MS patches IE hole, FrontPage still gaping
News On Thursday, a German tester for Jabadoo Communications' c't computer magazine discovered that it was possible to spy on text, graphics and HTML files on somebody else's hard drive by embedding code in a Web page or e-mail message.
[October 21, 1997, 9:17]
A Year Ago: Gates: MS won't be broken
News Microsoft won't break up, says Bill Gates Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in an interview aired on Friday he does not expect the government's landmark antitrust suit against his company to lead to its breakup.
[January 15, 2001, 6:01]
