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Rupert Goodwins' Diary -- Guaranteed MS Free!
Blog Wednesday 24/10/01 Off to Apple, to see the iPod. It's a hastily arranged launch, we're told, because there's only one iPod in the country, it arrived that afternoon and nobody was really expecting it.
[October 26, 2001, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary -- Guaranteed MS Free!
Blog Thursday 25/10/01 You might know that ZDNet is owned by American company CNET: well, today was the day our enlightened and generous Yankee masters got us all on the blower for a conference call to discuss how things are going, and what happens next.
[October 26, 2001, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary -- Guaranteed MS Free!
Blog Friday 26/10/01 Sputtering indignation on the Pprune bulletin board for pilots. RyanAir has stopped all recruitment of flight deck crew except for via the Web site -- and to lodge your CV for consideration will cost £50, thank you very much.
[October 26, 2001, 18:00]
MS rolls out red carpet for IE 4.0
News With the extended period of Developer Previews and betas available at Microsoft's Web site, there was little among the new features which offered much of a surprise. All the features, including Active Channels, a greater degree of customisation...
[October 1, 1997, 11:28]
OpenOffice 3 reads MS Office 2007 Files
Blog The release of OpenOffice.org 3 must be getting very close now; Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for download, and it looks very, very good indeed. The best news about this release, at least for me personally, is that it can read Microsoft...
[September 30, 2008, 13:56]
Viglen-MS PC deal raises ire, suspicion
News That was the verdict of the UK PC community today on the surprise deal that means the UK firm's new HomePro four-PC line will be co-branded by Microsoft and sold through Dixons stores. Dixons, which has stores under several names, is the dominant...
[October 2, 1997, 17:31]
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]
Fujitsu ICL first to bundle MS Word 97
News The deal is the first of its kind in Europe and Fujitsu ICL is hoping to win over any wavering PC buyers with the promise of free software and a reduced-price upgrade to the full Office 97 suite. The Microsoft bundling deal coincides with the...
[December 5, 1997, 13:32]
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 claims over 1m IE 3.0 downloads
News Microsoft dealt a new hand in the numbers game today when it said that more than a million users have downloaded the full version of Internet Explorer (IE) 3.0. The firm said that English language downloads were already double the total of IE 2.0...
[August 20, 1996, 12:44]
Tosh passes on MS's PDA OS
News Microsoft will next month unveil Pegasus, its first commercially available OS for pocketable devices. The system will include a pared version of Internet Explorer and an E-mail client, as well as the ability to read Word and Excel files.
[August 22, 1996, 11:05]
Logitech pips MS with Net-ready mouse
News Logitech will leapfrog Microsoft when it releases a trackerball optimised for use with the Internet, late in September. Although Microsoft has been talking up its IntelliMouse, that product isn't scheduled for a UK debut until November.
[August 22, 1996, 14:15]
Apple bundles MS Office on Power Macs
News Apple and Microsoft continue to cosy up to each other with the announcement today that, in Europe, some Power Macintosh systems will have Microsoft Office pre-installed from September 1, 1996. Selected configurations of Power Mac 7600 and 8200...
[August 29, 1996, 14:12]
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]
MS plays down IE quick ship whispers
News UK product manager Martin Gregory refused to deny the possibility of an early release for the full product, saying he expected an end of year ship date. Netscape was also tight-lipped in discussing a schedule for Navigator 4.0 although plans are...
[September 2, 1996, 17:57]
Q&A: MS's Pryke-Smith on Java
News PCDN: How has the show been so far? Very good. We've had about 350 attendees from consultants, corporates and smaller developers. We've been profiling Visual J++ and the role ActiveX is playing in extending the Java language.
[September 5, 1996, 16:57]
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]
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]
Q&A (2): MS's Pryke-Smith on Java
News The meeting that was scheduled to happen between us and other related concerns hasn't. We just haven't been able to get everyone around the table. We're still committed to it and [the consortium] should definitely happen by the end of the year.
[September 5, 1996, 16:59]
MS protests O'Reilly NT claims
News Microsoft yesterday rebutted O'Reilly & Associates' claims that Windows NT Workstation (NTW) and Server (NTS) are virtually the same product. O'Reilly, a technical publisher and Web server developer, had said in an article published on its Web site...
[September 11, 1996, 12:13]
