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Quotes of the Week, December 8-12
News PC makers are free as they always have been to install another browser. Microsoft can no longer make PC vendors install IE but it's a preliminary ruling at this stage. "Most PC makers want IE because that's what users want.
[December 15, 1997, 12:59]
A Year Ago: MS sees DOJ ruling having little effect
News PC makers are free as they always have been to install another browser. Microsoft can no longer make PC vendors install IE but it's a preliminary ruling at this stage. The ruling that Microsoft must stop demanding PC makers bundle Internet Explorer...
[December 14, 1998, 6:05]
MS sees DOJ ruling having little effect
News PC makers are free as they always have been to install another browser. Microsoft can no longer make PC vendors install IE but it's a preliminary ruling at this stage. Most PC makers want IE because that's what users want," said a spokesman.
[December 12, 1997, 10:35]
Microsoft hit with another antitrust suit
News The complaint adds that Microsoft has wielded its "monopoly power to restrict how PC makers install competing media players while forcing every Windows user to take Microsoft's media player, whether they want it or not.
[December 19, 2003, 7:50]
Europe to get Windows 7 without browser
News PC manufacturers may choose to install an alternative browser instead of IE8, and has always been the case, they may install multiple browsers if they wish. Computer makers would then have the option to add the browser back in, ship another browser...
[June 12, 2009, 8:40]
Spyware masquerades as helpful software
News But as these programs proliferate, some software makers face mounting criticism that their products install the very things they promise to defend against. Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: so-called spyware-killing programs that...
[February 5, 2004, 7:20]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News But maybe I can help: you're almost certainly trying to install one of these removeable disks, and using a parallel port driver, and it won't install. Well, another very common problem appears to be that some anti-virus software doesn't like ours...
[September 7, 1996, 9:03]
Microsoft sets XP update release date
News The update will not install on some pirated copies of the software suite. The Service Pack won't install on the Windows XP copies using a stolen number. That's a smooth period for PC makers to incorporate a new service pack into PC configurations.
[September 2, 2002, 8:01]
Chinese gov't in further Green Dam concessions
Blog PC makers will no longer have to pre-install Green Dam censorware on PCs in China, the government has announced. The official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday that Li Yizhong, China's minister of industry and information technology, had...
[August 13, 2009, 17:54]
Microsoft agrees to rival browsers in Windows
News PC makers could choose to install a rival browser — as they can today — and could also choose to disable IE. Under our new proposal, among other things, European consumers who buy a new Windows PC with Internet Explorer set as their default browser...
[July 24, 2009, 21:19]
Windows XP nears the finish line
News Microsoft also is delivering its final test version very close to the launch of the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) software code, from which the company will make boxed Windows XP versions and PC makers will install the operating system on new...
[July 30, 2001, 8:54]
Intel Wi-Fi software is flawed
News Intel recommends that users of PCs equipped with Intel wireless hardware install the latest version of the company's software. Intel has made a fix available to PC makers and plans to post it to the Intel Web site on Friday, Martin said.
[August 25, 2006, 9:20]
Too little, too late from EU?
News According to recent reports, commissioners may settle for allowing big PC makers to choose what multimedia software to install on new computers, instead of forcing Microsoft to pull Media Player out of Windows altogether.
[March 8, 2004, 13:30]
Home servers: The new data butlers
News Gateway took its first steps down the home-server path on Nov.when it contracted with Broadcom to install its HPNA chipset in its Select and Performance home PCs. PC makers are working to create a new home-computing experience that links networked...
[November 24, 2000, 8:49]
Dell unhooks Windows from desktops
News The Custom Factory Installation Program allows customers to specify an operating system or have Dell install a customised bundle of software, such as Windows or Red Hat Software's version of Linux. Indeed, large companies often install their own...
[August 14, 2002, 7:35]
Presario users still hot over freezes
News It receives software updates and can install them on a user's PC. Compaq officials said Monday that those users who install the SoftPAQ updates should do so as part of a two step process where they also upgrade their BIOS software.
[January 5, 2000, 8:44]
AMD mines Newcastle core
News AMD is also preparing a new kind of package used to install a chip in a PC. Although none appear to have done so yet, PC makers in the United States are likely to adopt Newcastle-based chips eventually.
[March 16, 2004, 7:30]
New 'Whistler' build adds antipiracy lock
News Microsoft plans to deliver WPA in all 32-bit versions of Whistler except those sold to volume-licensing customers and the so-called "Royalty OEM initial install images" provided to PC makers, said sources close to the company.
[January 9, 2001, 8:59]
'Drivezilla' has monster 200GB storage
News Buyers will have to install the new card and software. Not all PC retailers or PC makers have it yet, he said. Retailers will get it first, he added, and PC makers "will start shipping by the end of the quarter.
[July 30, 2002, 9:56]
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. PC makers have been motivated largely by cost.
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
