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Klein's departure won't impact MS case
News Joel Klein's departure from the US Department of Justice is unlikely to have any significant impact on the Microsoft antitrust case, according to legal experts and trial watchers. The DoJ said the assistant attorney general would leave at the end...
[September 20, 2000, 8:01]
Glaser takes swipe at MS Audio
News "Our view is that the way to participate in this market is squarely and directly, to work within the system," Glaser said. Don't introduce another format and tell everybody the compression is better. Just as HTML grew and got better, that's how...
[April 16, 1999, 9:20]
Five years ago: MS to buy Web site analysis firm
News First published 4 March, 1997 This time the lucky firm is two-year old Intersé Corp.the California-based developer of site analysis software package Intersé market focus. Intersé market focus 3 will be shoehorned into the newly named Microsoft...
[March 5, 2002, 6:01]
News Burst: Glaser takes a shot at MS Audio 4.0
News Rob Glaser, CEO and president of RealNetworks Inc.took a not-so-veiled jab at Microsoft Corp.s competition with the MP3 music format in a speech at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
[April 16, 1999, 9:29]
MS revisits Internet strategy
News On Monday, Microsoft revisited, for the first time in a major way since 1995, its original Internet strategy. Four years ago, Microsoft's overarching message was that it planned to Internet-enable all of its future system and application software.
[September 14, 1999, 9:16]
MS anti-Unix site powered by... Unix
News A Web site sponsored by Microsoft and Unisys as a way to steer big companies away from the Unix operating system is itself powered by Unix software. The site, dubbed "We have the way out," runs on Web servers powered by FreeBSD, an open-source...
[April 2, 2002, 9:47]
Windows '97: MS gives IE 4.0 public preview
News In what it called a Platform Preview version, Microsoft demoed new features of the browser including Dynamic HTML, Active Desktop and intelligent help facilities. With version 4.0 we've brought forward some features that were originally on the...
[February 25, 1997, 14:47]
Gates to hand over MS reins... in 15 years or so
News "I can't think of being 60 and running the company. By then I will pick a new CEO," the 41-year-old Microsoft chairman and CEO told PC Week Online in a recent interview.
[April 4, 1997, 10:35]
Online bank hit by MS-Java feud
News The phase-out of Microsoft's Java virtual machine from products such as Windows XP is being blamed for the inaccessibility of an Australian Internet banking site for some users. A online banking customer contacted ZDNet Australia yesterday...
[April 4, 2002, 15:07]
MS, DOJ sharply clash in new filings
News On Tuesday lawyers for both sides submitted proposed findings of facts in connection with the Microsoft antitrust trial that closely traced themes outlined during the 76 days they argued in court during the earlier phase of the case.
[August 11, 1999, 9:09]
A Year Ago: MS and DoJ brace for Friday decision
News Will he or won't he - only Judge Jackson knows for sure. But a decision in the landmark Microsoft antitrust trial may be only hours away With the approach of another Friday, all eyes are again on Washington DC, where the presiding judge in the...
[November 5, 2000, 6:04]
Five years ago: IE 4.0 up for download everywhere... except MS site
News First published 8 April, 1997 Microsoft's comedy of errors over the release of the Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 'Platform Preview' continued, as the giant once again missed a self-imposed deadline for posting pre-release code on its Web site.
[April 5, 2002, 7:01]
Five years ago: Compaq, MS, Intel plot digital TV future
News First published 9 April, 1997 Digital TV promises high-quality video and audio beyond the reach of today's analogue sets. The service proposed would also be interactive and let users receive broadcasts at convenient times by harnessing the Internet...
[April 9, 2002, 7:01]
Hole in MS security brews Java storm
News Another security hole in Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that allows a computer to be manipulated freely by a rogue applet, has been uncovered by a researcher at the University of Marburg in Germany.
[October 13, 1999, 10:38]
Sony dumps MS Office for StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems announced a deal on Wednesday to install Sun's StarOffice software on some European Sony PCs, marking another defection from dominant Microsoft products. By the end of the year, Sony will include version 6.0 of StarOffice on most...
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
Finding flaws helpful - MS security chief
News Microsoft's product security chief has expressed his disappointment over the recent discovery of a vulnerability in the much touted "most secure ever" Windows Server 2003 operating system, but says the company has learned from the experience.
[August 6, 2003, 11:45]
MS beats Street, warns of slowing growth
News "In fiscal 2000 our revenue growth rates will decline due to slowing PC demand, uncertainty surrounding Y2K, and uncertain global economic conditions, and we will not see further margin expansion," said Greg Maffei, Microsoft's financial chief, in...
[July 20, 1999, 9:12]
Windows '97 (2): MS gives IE 4.0 public preview
News Microsoft has also added a tranche of communication and collaboration tools to IE 4.0. Outlook Express, previously known as Internet Mail and News, lets users search for e-mail addresses through BigFoot or similar engines without leaving the mail...
[February 25, 1997, 14:54]
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]
"Patents are a currency". (Courtois - MS)
Talkback While not being clear of the point being made in PH's last paragraph, Patents and Patent Experts are likely too costly for many SME's whose budget and focus is not quite the same as Big Businesses. Therefore the propsals from this study by a self...
[November 30, 2006, 13:23]
