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Netscape, MS swap jibes in UK debate
News Talking at The Great Intranet Debate at the Intranet Expo 97 at Olympia, London, Sethi accused Microsoft of not acting in the best interests of users by maintaining a proprietary application upgrade model for its Office suite that goes against the...
[April 16, 1997, 9:18]
MS launches its final anti-DoJ salvo
News In a document that opens the door for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to issue his final ruling in Microsoft's antitrust case, the company criticised the government for making only "cosmetic" changes to a breakup proposal it says is full of flaws.
[June 7, 2000, 9:20]
Controls eased on MS Passport
News Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to revise the "terms of use" policy for its Passport service following criticism that the agreement gives the software behemoth Draconian control of customer communications.
[April 5, 2001, 8:03]
Psion manifesto attacks MS, Win CE
News The UK firm's "Psion Charter" calls into question Microsoft's first stab at a handheld operating system, suggesting that it was designed as an afterthought to its desktop and server siblings. Although the charter itself does not mention Microsoft...
[May 22, 1997, 16:51]
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]
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]
Cambridge plays down MS campus link
News "At the moment we're only in preliminary talks with Microsoft," said a spokeswoman today. Nothing has been confirmed as yet and it's all very much in the air. The Daily Telegraph got a hold of the story and it all kind of spiralled from there, but...
[June 3, 1997, 10:57]
MS extends CDF to support Netcaster
News CDF (Channel Definition Format) is Microsoft's framework for creating and transmitting pushed content. Microsoft is planning to add CDF support to Internet Explorer 4.0 this summer. Netcaster is the push client contained in Netscape's new...
[June 5, 1997, 9:16]
Top secret! New MS Whistler
News Something interesting happened to Whistler, Microsoft's next generation of the Windows operating system, on its way to its second beta release. But testers aren't exactly sure yet what has changed. On Tuesday, Microsoft privately alerted Whistler...
[January 25, 2001, 9:00]
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]
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]
MS/Comcast deal fires PC/TV fusion
News At least that's the hope of Comcast President Brian Roberts. In a press conference today to discuss the investment, Roberts said that Microsoft's move could be the catalyst that spurs the nation's cable companies to action.
[June 10, 1997, 8:57]
MS posts Word 97/6.0 conversion tool
News Available for download now, the new Word 6.0/95 converter saves Word 97 documents in binary format with a .doc extension rather than Rich Text Format (RTF), as was originally the case. More efficient compression is also added to keep resulting...
[June 12, 1997, 11:15]
MS/Cambridge to make announcement
News Microsoft is looking to the UK's finest young minds to boost its product development. Seemingly confirming reports that have appeared in the last fortnight, the University of Cambridge today said it will host a press conference with Microsoft to...
[June 12, 1997, 15:02]
MS, Netscape pledge interoperability
News The two companies, with the support of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), will pledge to support recommended HTML tags and to submit all HTML extensions to the W3C before shipping them. The petition, originally posted on the ZDNet AnchorDesk site...
[June 13, 1997, 8:53]
PC Expo: MS wants 'Windows Everywhere'
News In a keynote speech Wednesday here at PC Expo, Ballmer demonstrated Windows running on almost every type of system -- from servers to desktops to thin clients, and handhelds. The theory is to have "Windows Everywhere," Ballmer said.
[June 19, 1997, 16:16]
Lowdown on latest MS security bulletin
News On July 24, Microsoft released five new Security Bulletins: MS02-032 (update), MS02-036, MS02-037, MS02-038, and MS02-039. They include pertinent security information affecting multiple Microsoft products, led by several key fixes for SQL Server 2000.
[August 6, 2002, 13:50]
MS posts fix for IIS security hole
News Microsoft has posted a description and fix to prevent hackers causing Internet Information Server (IIS) to crash when they enter certain URLs. Part of the statement reads: "These types of Denial of Service issues are common on the Internet and...
[June 23, 1997, 13:18]
Networks '97: MS presence gives UK Java Forum early rumpus
News 10 companies, comprising Microsoft, Sun, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Lotus, Corel, Borland, Novell and Symantec are backing The Java Forum which will host events, conduct research and publish information regarding Java deployment.
[June 25, 1997, 11:39]
MS kills Mac Office bugs
News Microsoft on Monday called on the exterminators to stomp out Macintosh Office bugs. The company issued the first service release -- or collection of bug fixes -- for Mac Office 2001. The company had already issued two similar service updates for...
[April 3, 2001, 9:15]
