Microsoft veteran launches tool start-up
News In starting his own company, Simonyi joins the ranks of Microsoft alumni seeking new challenges beyond the company's campus. Former Microsoft researcher Charles Simonyi has started a new company with the goal of creating software development tools.
[September 17, 2002, 14:19]
Microsoft enforces its anti-spam tech
News If you receive mail forwarded through, for example, a university alumni account, the Sender ID check fails," said Matt Sergeant, a senior antispam technologist at MessageLabs. If your e-mail does not have a Sender ID, Microsoft wants to junk your...
[June 23, 2005, 9:30]
Microsoft grant has strings attached
News The deal shows "that the University admin.will do just about anything for money," one alumni posted to the news site. Microsoft's Canadian subsidiary has established a $10m fund to support technology research and development at Canadian universities.
[August 16, 2002, 14:40]
Old Microsoft execs never die ...
News The stock market crash of April 2000, of course, radically reshaped the plans of the most recent crop of alumni from Redmond, Washington. Three years ago, Eric Engstrom was running Microsoft's Internet service provider business and growing rich...
[February 12, 2002, 17:21]
Mozilla takes on Microsoft.Net
News Some high-profile ventures, such as Redmond, Wash.based Crossgain and OpenDesign -- both backed and founded by Microsoft alumni -- describe their as-yet-unreleased projects much in the same way that Mozilla views its technology, as "platforms" for...
[February 6, 2001, 7:48]
Yahoo takes Zimbra email service to school
News One site using the hosted service is Kansas State University, with 30,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni, said James Lyall, associate vice provost of IT at Kansas State University. Ordinary email and calendar software such as Microsoft Outlook...
[October 29, 2008, 8:25]
Microsoft testing next version of Exchange
News Microsoft said on Tuesday that there are now more than 3.5 million people, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, who are testing the next Exchange at more than 1,500 educational institutions.
[January 14, 2009, 9:12]
Tablet PC rivalry sets in
News Other Dell alumni include chief designer Tom Bentley, vice president of software Charles Zeller, vice president of sales Ralph Spagnola and chief operating officer David Alounian. Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Acer are scheduled to release...
[October 24, 2002, 11:47]
MS/Cambridge to make announcement
News Its alumni were key in developing multi-user computers, Unix and "Janet", the Joint Academic Network that linked educational institutions the world over long before the Internet became a household world.
[June 12, 1997, 15:02]
AOL aims to supercharge streaming
News The Nullsoft alumni have been preaching a new media software dubbed "Wasabi," which can run on various operating systems including Windows and Linux. Both Microsoft and RealNetworks have also recently announced improvements in their technology...
[June 27, 2002, 13:26]
Lawsuit targets PS2 chip
News A representative for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the group that administers patents researchers at the University of Wisconsin, said it filed the suit last week in US District Court in Madison.
[October 28, 2003, 9:05]
