Microsoft Changes Tune On Gore's Monday Visit - 11/14/1999 Microsoft agreed to Vice President Al Gore's last-minute demand that his upcoming visit to the company be opened to the press, averting a cancellation.
Microsoft Closer on 'Office Open' Blessing - 3/1/2007 The software vendor's hopes for quick approval of its proposed standard takes on more urgency as momentum for open standards grows.
Microsoft Counts Down to Small Business Server 2003 Launch - 9/22/2003 Small companies don't need a full-time IT staff, says Microsoft, to reap the benefits of the Office integration, team collaboration, and messaging and security functions of Windows Server 2003. The software giant has released Small Business Server 2003 to manufacturing for shipping next month.
Microsoft Cuts Office XP and Application Prices - 6/2/2003 It's still $100 more than Corel WordPerfect Office and $399 more than the free OpenOffice.org suite, but retail shoppers will find Microsoft Office XP costs $80 less than it did last week. Word 2002, Excel 2002, and other standalone programs get price cuts, too, while corporate volume buyers enjoy new licensing permissions including the right to use their Office applications at home.
Microsoft Debuts Street-Level Search - 7/25/2005 It's getting to be a small world after all as Redmond becomes the latest to uncover the nooks and crannies of your 'hood.
Microsoft Defends OOXML - 1/18/2008 In the run up to a final standards determination for its Office Open XML file formats, Microsoft makes its case.
Microsoft Defends Security Approaches - 1/31/2005 With IE facing eroding market share, Redmond has launched at least four security initiatives in the last month. What gives?
Microsoft Delivers a Plethora of Patches - 2/13/2008 After almost no fixes last month, the company turns out 11 security bulletins, calling six of them "critical."
Microsoft Demos New Visio Features - 2/6/2008 Microsoft shows off coming updates to its Visio diagramming tool, including support for Office 2007's vaunted "ribbon" UI.
Microsoft Details Its 'Mesh' Vision - 4/25/2008 The software giant thinks it has a way to tie all of your devices to all of your data through services in the cloud.
Microsoft Drops More Hints About Office 11's Highlight: InfoPath - 2/10/2003 It's becoming clear that the most ambitious thing about this year's upgrade of Microsoft Office has nothing to do with new features for Word or Excel -- it's about making applications even easier for users while providing even deeper, more seamless links to the enterprise database. Here's an update on the XML-fluent electronic forms package that's the hub of Microsoft's plan.
Microsoft Encarta 2004 Takes Encyclopedias to the Next Level - 6/30/2003 Any encyclopedia can show your kids pictures of glaciers, but Microsoft's newest edition of the CD or DVD extravaganza Encarta offers Discovery Channel video of glaciers and dozens of other topics -- plus new navigation and homework-helping tools and a slew of built-in and online updates and multimedia information resources.
Microsoft Extends the Media Center PC - 1/12/2004 Remember Smart Displays? Microsoft hopes you don't, quietly spiking that wireless-networked-monitor idea in favor of new connections between Windows XP Media Center Edition and the living-room TV set -- and a new generation of bookshelf receivers and handheld music/photo/movie players planned for the 2004 holiday season. Here's the scoop from the Consumer Electronics Show.
Microsoft Eyes Home Networking Market - 10/24/1999 As high-speed Internet access becomes a staple in the home and PCs give way to new Web-based handheld gadgets, Microsoft--like its rivals--envisions a future where every electronic device can communicate.
Microsoft Frees IronPython - 9/6/2006 Creator says it will be the first of many dynamic languages on .NET.
Microsoft 'Frees' Office Formats - 2/19/2008 Microsoft places code and specs for its old Office binary file formats under its "no lawsuit" program; begins open source project.
Microsoft Gets 'Live' with Services - 9/6/2007 Microsoft begins public beta of its Windows Live services suite and ships version 1.0 of its Silverlight streaming media plug-in.
Microsoft Hard-Balling EU Over Vista - 9/8/2006 The company is engaged in a public relations battle with European regulators in the hopes of improving the Vista on its future.
Microsoft Has Soft Spot With Its New Speech Recognition Software - 12/12/2000 The Voice Recognition software for Microsoft’s new Office Suite 10 is not being advertised as one of its better features, though earlier news releases had hyped it up. Is it really that bad?
Microsoft Hits a 'Popfly' - 10/19/2007 In a move to popularize Silverlight, its competitor to Adobe Flash, Microsoft has released the public beta of a mashup tool for non-technical users called Popfly.
Microsoft Hits the Road with Streets & Trips 2004 - 8/11/2003 With GPS navigational receivers more affordable than ever, Microsoft adds real-time GPS support to its travel-planning, mapping, and driving-directions software. You can also plan a trip based on how much time you want to spend behind the wheel -- and one-way streets will no longer take you by surprise.
Microsoft IIS a Popular Target For Malware - 6/7/2007 According to a report by Google, malware is as prevalent on Microsoft's Internet Information Servers as the far more popular Apache Web server.
