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Gates Touts Vision Of PC As Hub
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took the stage at WinHEC on Thursday, announcing support for Bluetooth wireless networking technology and demonstrating technologies that he sees becoming pervasive in home networks.
[April 19, 2002, 10:28]
Longhorn Will Feature 'secure' Components
News Microsoft on Wednesday warned developers at its WinHEC conference that changes continue to be made in the security technology component it plans for next-generation PCs. A year ago at WinHEC (the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference), Microsoft...
[May 6, 2004, 8:40]
Microsoft Puts Its Weight Behind Bluetooth
News Gates plans to announce the backing in Seattle in a keynote address at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, at which the software giant tries to align hardware and software engineers with its plans.
[April 18, 2002, 14:30]
Microsoft Announces Longhorn Release Date
News He made the comments during a speech delivered at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans. Company representatives at a WinHEC demonstration of a pre-beta version of Longhorn said that the goal is to be able to run the...
[May 8, 2003, 10:56]
Microsoft Bug-checking Tools Promise Fewer Crashes
News We're hoping that reliability and robustness for drivers will improve," Jon Hagen, a Microsoft developer who works on the Static Driver Verifier, said in an interview at WinHEC. Drivers are developed by Microsoft as well as by hardware makers...
[May 30, 2006, 16:40]
Microsoft Unveils New Betas For Office, Vista
News Each of these is a very important product," Gates said in a keynote address in Seattle at the company's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC. The company perennially uses WinHEC to implore hardware makers to ensure they have built 64...
[May 24, 2006, 11:20]
Microsoft Expo Tunes Into The Home
News The proposed changes and standards will be launched on Tuesday through Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, where the software giant meets with flocks of engineers responsible for arcane but essential workings of PCs...
[April 16, 2002, 12:45]
InfiniBand Sequel Is Slower But Cheaper
News On Wednesday, Microsoft plans to announce that RDMA will be necessary to take advantage of forthcoming 10Gbps Ethernet networks, and it will discuss how RDMA supports a company plan, code-named Chimney, to enable easy use of network-accelerating...
[May 6, 2003, 9:32]
Photos: Concept And Current PCs At WinHEC
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates showed off some of the winners during his keynote speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles. It was one of several Microsoft contest winners shown by Gates on Tuesday and is on...
[May 17, 2007, 17:19]
Microsoft Takes Web Services To The Home
News At its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle, Microsoft will announce a specification, software development kit and partner support for new technology that links consumer-electronics devices to Windows.
[May 4, 2004, 14:40]
Microsoft Hints At Windows Future
News Top Microsoft executives, speaking Tuesday at the company's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans, publicly demonstrated the forthcoming operating system for the first time. The thing that people would really like to see...
[April 27, 2000, 8:25]
Microsoft: Customised Security Is Safer
News Secure windows will look different than regular, unsecured windows in order to remind users that they are looking at confidential material, Peter Biddle, product unit manager for Microsoft, said on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering...
[May 9, 2003, 9:07]
Windows To Embrace Multiple DVD Formats
News The software giant said at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans that it will provide built-in support for DVD+RW, DVD-RW/-R and DVD-RAM in future versions of its desktop operating system.
[May 9, 2003, 15:58]
Microsoft And HP To Unveil A PC Console
News The software giant is set to present the Athens concept at its annual WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) event, taking place in New Orleans. WinHEC traditionally focuses on assisting PC designers in creating hardware and software that...
[May 2, 2003, 14:33]
XP's Smart Display Enables Double Vision
News On Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans, Microsoft showed off a prototype of a set-top box co-designed with graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies that lets consumers view on a wide-screen TV their media...
[May 8, 2003, 13:39]
New Processors Talked Up At WinHEC
News Here at WinHEC AMD demonstrated a 600MHz K7 with the 200MHz memory bus, 128MB of 100MHz memory and a chip set of its own design. PCs developed as part of the Concept Platform Project, a joint development with Microsoft, "target specific...
[April 12, 1999, 8:35]
Start-up Shrinks PC To Palm Size
News The Seattle-based company is showing off a full-fledged "ultra personal" computer this week at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC 2002. This is a smaller form factor than Microsoft envisioned," he said.
[April 17, 2002, 10:35]
Longhorn: If They Build It, Will Anyone Come?
News Things should become clearer next month when Microsoft offers an updated preview version of Longhorn at WinHEC, its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, in Seattle. At last year's WinHEC, Microsoft outlined some of the features it was...
[April 1, 2005, 18:10]
Company Touts Crash-proof Servers
News At the recent WinHEC conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates lauded the company's efforts in this area. Stratus' server figures are the latest to come out of a competition between companies such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard...
[May 11, 2002, 7:31]
As The Mac Turns 20, Has The PC Caught Up?
Talkback The most important aspect of Longhorn's "Trustworthy Computing Initiative" (or whatever even more arcane term they renamed it to at Winhec, last year) will be whether or not Microsoft can trust YOU with their intellectual property (i.e.is this...
[January 22, 2004, 16:10]
