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Bill Gates Fighting Spam Flood
Talkback They said "forget about that, it will never amount to anything, the Microsoft Network - that's the way to go" (remember the icon on your Win'95 desktop? Alan, Microsoft were dead against the internet to begin with.
[November 24, 2004, 10:26]
Windows XP Messenger Takes Aim At AOL
News Until now, Microsoft has focused its online communication efforts on instant text messaging, where the company has been engaged in a contest to win users from AOL Time Warner. That bundling move helped Microsoft win the browser battle with Netscape...
[June 4, 2001, 8:58]
Sudden Reversal: Experts Say Microsoft Could Win
News That conclusion comes after two days of oral arguments, where questions from seven appeals judges left open the possibility that Microsoft could win the whole case. The same court ruled in favour of Microsoft on this issue in an earlier proceeding...
[February 28, 2001, 14:50]
MS Must Stop Bundling IE 4.0
News Department of Justice has won the first round in its court battle against Microsoft Corp.but the victory is far from decisive. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in an interim order that Microsoft must "cease and desist" practices...
[December 12, 1997, 9:27]
A Year Ago: Five Myths About Microsoft Vs DoJ
News But we can't ignore Microsoft's antitrust battle against the Department of Justice and 19 states, which resumes today in Washington. Granted, the DoJ and lead attorney David Boies have kicked major Microsoft butt, even when it was Microsoft's turn...
[May 31, 2000, 7:01]
Five Myths About Microsoft Vs DOJ
News But we can't ignore Microsoft's antitrust battle against the Department of Justice and 19 states, which resumes today in Washington. Granted, the DOJ and lead attorney David Boies have kicked major Microsoft butt, even when it was Microsoft's turn...
[June 1, 1999, 10:06]
Windows XP: The Big Squeeze?
News As an extreme example, Microsoft's decision to bundle its Web browser with Windows in 1996 is credited with helping Microsoft win the browser war against Netscape Communications' Navigator and has been a key issue in the antitrust case that is...
[May 21, 2001, 14:02]
Yankee Group Slams 'Linux Extremists'
Talkback As James Cornell said previously, the EULA for Windows prevents the publishing of benchmarks and comparisons of the Windows operating system without Microsoft's direct consent.essentially, all negative reports.
[April 9, 2005, 2:48]
US Report: Service Pack For Win 98 Due Next Week
News Microsoft is beta testing a Service Pack for Win 98 less than one week after it was released to the public," read the beta invitation that Microsoft sent to a select group of Windows 98 beta testers earlier this week.
[July 3, 1998, 10:09]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Microsoft UK's chosen destination today sports discussion re Windows 98. He says he will be working closely with Microsoft. In the US it's joked that Visio is virtually a testing department for Bill Gates but you can see why it might make sense to...
[August 30, 1997, 8:00]
A Year Ago: Explorer Trounces Navigator
News European sales in Netscape's Navigator have plummeted, according to a report by INTECO, which shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has trounced its rival in the browser war. This has made the Microsoft browser number one in the UK, Germany and...
[January 29, 1999, 6:23]
Explorer Trounces Navigator - Report
News European sales in Netscape's Navigator have plummeted, according to a report by INTECO, which shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has trounced its rival in the browser war. This has made the Microsoft browser number one in the UK, Germany and...
[January 30, 1998, 17:14]
Wishing Won't Make Linux Split, Microsoft
Talkback We have MS Win 95, 98, 2000, ME, Server 2003, NT 3.x, NT 4x, XP & soon to be XP-64.and I am supposed to believe that across that field, Microsoft has greater interoperability? And neither does Microsoft.look at their 'warnings' about 'upgrading'.
[April 2, 2005, 3:09]
Microsoft Ties Media Player To Windows XP
News A similar "tying" of Internet Explorer with the OS in 1996 is credited with helping Microsoft win the browser war against Netscape's Navigator and has been a key issue in the antitrust case that is awaiting a decision by a federal Court of Appeals.
[April 25, 2001, 7:55]
Microsoft On Trial: Netscape 'imagined' Antitrust Case
News To win its case against the world's largest PC software developer, the government must show Microsoft has willfully maintained its monopoly over operating system software through any of a variety of unfair practices.
[October 23, 1998, 10:48]
Microsoft Brings Copy Protection To Consumer Apps
News In fact, Moore sees Plus DME's product activation as a real opportunity for Microsoft to win over those consumers who remain wary of product activation. Microsoft is set to release its first mainstream consumer software application protected by...
[January 2, 2003, 15:19]
US V Microsoft: Trial Guide
News Department of Justice, 20 states and the District of Columbia are putting Microsoft on the stand. Whether the integration of the software that has been distributed as Internet Explorer (IE) into Microsoft's market-dominating Windows operating...
[October 12, 1998, 14:09]
Jesse Berst: Devastating Email Worm On The Loose
News Experts aren't sure how far Worm.ExploreZip has spread, but email systems at Microsoft, Intel, Symantec, NBC and General Electric were hit so hard that some had to shut down mail servers. Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT ·
[June 11, 1999, 8:13]
PCs And Gadgets Battle To Be King Of The Living Room
News The event also put Apple and Microsoft in the unusual position of being on the same side. Michael Toutonghi, vice president of Microsoft's eHome division, agreed, adding that more than a third of PCs are in the family room or living room.
[November 20, 2002, 11:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Meanwhile, Microsoft has demonstrated its arrogance by telling the US Justice Department that it can't stop bundling Internet Explorer with the latest revision of Windows because the two are too tightly integrated.
[December 20, 1997, 7:00]
