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Microsoft on Trial: MS videotape not what it seemed
News After months of nibbling at the edges, government attorneys struck at the heart of a key Microsoft demonstration this morning, stopping just short of accusing Microsoft Senior Vice President James Allchin of falsifying a presentation even...
[February 3, 1999, 9:11]
MS may extend Windows 9x kernel
News For at least two years, the company has said that the next version of its desktop OS would be based on the NT kernel. Instead, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) is now contemplating extending its venerable Windows 9x kernel for at least one more release...
[February 2, 1999, 9:33]
Gates: MS won't be broken
News "It's not something that would make sense, it's not anything that we expect to have happen and we think it's reckless that that's being discussed by the government," Gates told NBC's "Today Show. The interview was taped on Thursday just after Gates...
[January 15, 2000, 6:41]
Microsoft on Trial: Judge quizzes MS witness over testimony
News The dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's business school Thursday said Microsoft would charge as much as $2,000 (£1,220) for each copy of the Windows 98 PC operating system if it were the monopoly the government alleges it to be.
[January 22, 1999, 10:25]
US consumers and IT workers oppose MS breakup
News Breaking up Microsoft is not what American executives and consumers want, if a report published Wednesday is to be believed. While various news reports suggest US government lawyers favour splitting up the software giant, the trade association ACT...
[January 13, 2000, 16:26]
DoJ filing hits MS on four counts
News In a filing that quotes liberally from Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact, the U.S. Department of Justice said Microsoft violated the Sherman Act in at least four ways. The DoJ Monday filed its conclusions of law, which outline its...
[December 7, 1999, 8:58]
Microsoft on trial: NSP not only multimedia technology MS killed
News Intel vice president Steve McGeady is the latest witness in Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's antitrust trial against Microsoft. In a three hour morning session with Microsoft attorney Steven Holley, McGeady claimed it was Microsoft pressure, not...
[November 11, 1998, 13:16]
MS upgrades IE, next-generation Windows
News Microsoft has posted for download from its Web site a minor update to Internet Explorer, and has released an updated beta of the next version of Consumer Windows, code-named Millennium. Microsoft made available Internet Explorer 5.01, which works...
[November 30, 1999, 9:45]
MS denies giving American NSA key
News Microsoft is denying claims by a Canadian security company that it has installed a second key in its Windows programs in order to give the US government access to users' computers. Instead, it said it's only following the rules imposed by the US to...
[September 6, 1999, 9:24]
US Report: Java targets MS in the enterprise
News Bolstered by wins against Microsoft Corp.in U.S. District Court and renewed support from its Java licensees, Sun Microsystems Inc.this month rolled out Java Platform for the Enterprise, an attack on Microsoft's Windows Distributed InterNet...
[December 22, 1998, 16:30]
A Year Ago: IE exec defends MS on DoJ charge
News A senior Microsoft Internet Explorer executive yesterday conducted a spirited defence of the firm's conduct as the Department of Justice heats up its pursuit. Microsoft Corp.director of marketing for the application and Internet client group Yusuf...
[December 21, 1998, 7:24]
News Burst: MS says Win2000 on track for this year
News But Brian Valentine, vice president of Microsoft's Business and Enterprise Division -- who, under senior vice president Jim Allchin, heads up Windows 2000 development at Microsoft -- also acknowledged Wednesday that Release Candidate 3, the final...
[October 14, 1999, 9:53]
Microsoft on Trial: We're right, they're wrong - MS
News As lawyers for the government have begun playing excerpts of videotaped testimony gathered this past summer from executives with a number of Microsoft competitors, Microsoft's lawyers are forced to rebut remarks from officials not physically...
[December 17, 1998, 14:30]
Sun/Oracle plans - don't get excited says MS
News Francis Reay, Microsoft's NT Server product manager argues that despite the duo's claims IT managers need only look to the past to notice a recurrent pattern of broken promises. We've been here before," says Reay.
[December 16, 1998, 16:16]
Microsoft on Trial: MS a '1,000-pound gorilla' says Disney
News Tuesday morning in federal court the US government showed excerpts from the videotaped depositions of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Steve Wadsworth, an executive with the Walt Disney Co. They depicted Microsoft as unafraid of using its...
[December 16, 1998, 12:55]
News Burst: Sun/Oracle plans - don't get excited says MS
News Full story to follow.
[December 16, 1998, 12:25]
A Year Ago: MS sees DOJ ruling having little effect
News The ruling that Microsoft must stop demanding PC makers bundle Internet Explorer 4.0 may have a next-to-invisible effect. Microsoft UK said that it will "comply fully with the ruling" but added that it expected most PC vendors to voluntarily...
[December 14, 1998, 6:05]
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]
US Report: MS claims Java is a 'double' standard
News WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp.on Wednesday moved to discredit Sun Microsystems Inc.s stewardship of the Java programming technology by alleging the language is a "double standard, not an open standard," used to punish companies unfriendly to Sun...
[December 10, 1998, 18:41]
