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Microsoft launches site for IT pros
News Microsoft UK was unable to provide any information about the service, but it appears that it could work as a forum where people can meet and exchange information. Microsoft has launched a social-networking site for IT professionals, called Aggreg8.
[November 13, 2006, 12:13]
Microsoft goes dynamic with systems management tool
News During a keynote speech at the company's IT Forum conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Gates outlined Microsoft's ambitious effort to trim the cost of managing corporate data centres, called the Dynamic Systems Initiative.
[November 16, 2004, 15:45]
IT Forum opens with demo-fest
News IT Forum, Microsoft's enterprise event in Europe, and the preferred destination for European IT managers who don't want to go to Comdex, opened on Tuesday in Copenhagen, Denmark, highlighting the diversity of Microsoft's current ventures.
[November 19, 2002, 15:25]
Europe leads Microsoft push to mobilise business apps
News Microsoft launched its Mobile Workplace programme in Europe at its IT Forum conference for IT managers in Copenhagen on Thursday. Go to the ZDNet news forum. The programme was first announced by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer in July.
[November 22, 2002, 11:08]
Windows XP has saved industry money, says Microsoft
News Windows XP, which is replacing Windows 98 and putting the Microsoft desktop on a single code-base, "will save the industry a huge amount of money," said Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows division at Microsoft, at IT Forum in...
[November 22, 2002, 11:14]
MS .Net: Integration to the max
News At Forum 2000, Microsoft's day-long rollout of its software-as-a-service .Net strategy, none of the Microsoft officials speaking at the event mentioned the company's ongoing antitrust lawsuit with the US Department of Justice.
[June 23, 2000, 8:30]
Massachusetts continues OpenDocument debate
News At the forum, Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft's Information Worker division, said that once Microsoft's Office Open XML specifications are ratified as standards, customers such as Massachusetts will have more choice.
[December 15, 2005, 9:05]
CIOs put spotlight on Microsoft licensing deals
News At a recent workshop by blue-chip user group the Corporate IT Forum, some IT chiefs said Microsoft's Select Agreements are a far better deal for many organisations. Ian Campbell, chief information officer for British Energy and chairman of the...
[November 16, 2007, 15:06]
Proxim offers DIY Wi-Fi hot spot
News The product was launched at Microsoft's IT Forum in Copenhagen. Go to the Telecoms forum. The company is repeating the wireless LAN it built in Barcelona for Microsoft's TechEd exhibition in July, this time with 30 access points and about 3,000...
[November 19, 2002, 14:05]
Mobile phone alliance marches ahead
News The Mobile Games Interoperability Forum (MGIF) also intends to join the alliance, said Mike Wehrs, director of technology and standards for Microsoft's mobility group. The Open Mobile Alliance itself was created by the merger of two other groups...
[November 21, 2002, 10:24]
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]
Five years ago: Networks '97: MS presence gives UK Java Forum early rumpus
News First published 25 June, 1997.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...
[June 24, 2002, 7:02]
Microsoft's antivirus deletes users' emails
News According to postings on Microsoft's OneCare forum, erasures have been caused when the antivirus programme finds a virus in an email attachment. One user commented on the forum: "Is there a chance to recover it?
[March 9, 2007, 11:24]
Adios to BIOS
News Intel and Microsoft will promote EFI as an industry standard by establishing a forum to assist others in adopting the specification. They can gain access to the technology by working with companies like Insyde, or eventually use technology...
[December 30, 2003, 12:05]
Users find hole in their PocketPC upgrades
News Here I am at home, with my recently upgraded iPaq 3670, and my new hub, wireless access point, CF sleeve, and CF wireless LAN card.with Messenger nowhere to be found," wrote one user in one of the milder posts on the PocketPC Internet forum at...
[December 10, 2001, 16:20]
Microsoft softens stance on USB 2.0
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Microsoft forum. USB 2.0 was adopted last autumn by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), and claims to offer speeds of up to 40 times those of USB 1.1. In a softening of its earlier position, Microsoft...
[May 14, 2001, 16:00]
Windows XP: What's in it for you?
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Microsoft forum. The latest news and final code reviews - plus comment, a dedicated forum, a screenshot gallery and real-time price checks on the best XP deals.
[September 24, 2001, 11:59]
Web speech effort gets new voice
News The SALT Forum said that on Wednesday it will offer more SALT demonstrations via a Microsoft-sponsored Webcast, including a Vocalocity browser and a plug-in for Macromedia's Dreamweaver Web authoring tool by Voice Web Solutions.
[April 2, 2003, 15:49]
United users should call security tune
Leader The Forum has spent its first year of existence deciding what it wants: vendors were kept out. The Jericho Forum, now just one year old, feels the same way. This Microsoft knew because analysts told it so.
[January 17, 2005, 13:30]
Microsoft Tech Ed hosts Europe's largest WLAN
News Orinoco has made wireless LAN for previous shows in the US, and will build one for Microsoft's IT Forum event in Copenhagen this October. Go to the ZDNet news forum. Visitors to Microsoft's Tech Ed developer event this week have been online...
[July 4, 2002, 15:02]
