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Vista And Office Push Up Microsoft Sales
News Microsoft said that seven in 10 PCs shipped with a premium version of Windows in the quarter, as compared with about five in 10 under Windows XP. All in all, the shift to higher-end versions of Windows accounted for one percentage point of the...
[April 27, 2007, 9:43]
Office Communicator 2007 review
Reviews We installed the trial version of OC 2007onto two PCs: one was a virtual machine hosted by VMware Workstation 5 and running Windows XP Professional; the other was a conventional desktop PC running Windows XP Professional.
[October 16, 2007, 10:15]
Tube Staff Get Huge Discount On Office 2007
News We are targeting take-up of about 70 percent, as surveys told us 93 percent of our staff have home PCs. We are very strong around going green and measuring our carbon footprint, and Vista can help us around power savings on PCs.
[November 28, 2007, 16:43]
High Street Gets Ready To Push Vista
News With Windows XP, the operating system started showing up on PCs in September 2001, while the formal retail launch didn't occur until October. Many are keeping their offers close to the vest, but Circuit City's Becker said to expect plenty of cheap...
[January 23, 2007, 8:17]
Ozzie: Microsoft Is At An 'interesting Juncture'
News For Windows, Ozzie foresees adjustments to PCs that have many cores, a shift right now that requires application developers to adjust their existing applications. But he dismissed the notion that PCs and operating systems are irrelevant in a time...
[November 9, 2006, 9:55]
Vista Migration Plans Unexpectedly Ambitious
News One company with several tens of thousands of PCs, which have just been upgraded to Windows XP SP1, said compatibility will be the main issue, "followed by complexity and ease to upgrade". We have approximately 1,500 PCs deployed, all running W2000.
[December 5, 2006, 15:36]
Telecommunications Firm Standardizes Software Platform, Cuts Costs 44%
White Papers With Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, T-Systems accelerated the deployment process and reduced overhead costs considerably by delivering applications to employee PCs dynamically. T-Systems sought to improve productivity for employees...
[June 11, 2008, 1:01]
No Vista Patch In Microsoft's Updates
News The updates will be pushed out to Windows PCs that have enabled Automatic Updates. Most of the Patch Tuesday flaws are only potentially harmful if people with vulnerable PCs visit a malicious website or open an infected document.
[February 14, 2007, 9:19]
South Korean Govt Goes Open Source
News The South Korean government has announced a plan to have proprietary software on a substantial number of its PCs and servers replaced with open-source alternatives by 2007. As a first step, organisations including South Korea's Industry Promotion...
[October 1, 2003, 9:30]
Microsoft Releases Six Vista Deployment Tools
News The first of these main tools, called Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, scans all the PCs on an organisation's network to assess the ability of each machine to run Vista. It then produces a report that identifies the PCs that are likely to be able...
[February 21, 2007, 13:17]
Running The Numbers On Vista Sales
News But given the fact that only relatively new PCs can be upgraded to Vista, and with standalone sales not showing signs of improving, Swenson said: "It's looking less and less likely that this will happen.
[September 12, 2007, 8:14]
Microsoft Introduces Standalone Outlook
News In the past, Microsoft has offered a cut-down version of Outlook, known as Outlook Express, pre-installed on most new Windows PCs. According to Takeshi Numoto, general manager of Microsoft Office 2007: "Currently, many small and home-based...
[February 8, 2008, 15:31]
Microsoft: Online Services Are For Businesses, Too
News The existing product, Microsoft Client Protection, which removes malware from PCs on business networks, has been renamed Forefront Client Security. Microsoft is taking a very pragmatic approach, a seamless, blended client-server-services approach...
[June 12, 2006, 9:20]
Date Set For Office And Vista Business Launch
News Both Vista and Office had been originally slated to arrive on store shelves and new PCs in time for this year's holiday season. The mainstream launch is still slated to occur in January, at which time Vista and Office 2007 will start showing up on...
[November 2, 2006, 8:30]
Microsoft Effort Targets Next Billion PC Users
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new initiatives aimed at getting PCs into the hands of more people in emerging markets.
[April 19, 2007, 9:33]
Gates Reassures Businesses
News Although Microsoft announced last week that Vista and Office 2007 would not land on new PCs in time for Christmas the company on Sunday said it is largely on track to deliver new business software. Q: Windows has grown over time, and one of its...
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
Office, Vista Changed In Wake Of Adobe Threat
News However, manufacturers have shown little or no interest in selling PCs based on the stripped-down operating system. Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from...
[June 5, 2006, 9:10]
Vista And Office Giveaway Draws To A Close
News However, the software won't be on retail shelves and new PCs until January. It sounded like a scam: visit this website, watch a few videos and get a free copy of Windows Vista or Office 2007. Those who are getting both the free Office and Vista...
[December 4, 2006, 7:58]
Microsoft Launches Low-cost PCs For India
News At the time, the company announced a programme through which it will sell a bundle of Windows and Office for $3 (£1.49), but only for programmes in which governments agree to pick up at least half the tab for PCs that will be owned by individuals.
[June 28, 2007, 12:47]
Microsoft Launches Subscription Office
Blog Oh, and the licence covers up to 3 PCs. Microsoft Equipt (now there's a websearch fail in the making, if I ever saw one) provides users, for £60 a year, with a combination of the OneCare security package and Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007.
[October 14, 2008, 16:43]
