Most people or corporations interested in Vista are looking at it for its much touted increased security over XP. Others are just interested in it for DirectX 10 games that only run on Vista. For those looking at it for the security, there may not be any advantage to Vista over XP.
A handful of programmers and tech-savvy Windows users are attempting to do what Microsoft's legion of coders could not, by turning the 'Longhorn' beta builds of Windows Vista into a full-featured operating system.
Is Microsoft suffering from developer show burnout? -- or -- does the rescheduling suggest that it will it be a long time before Microsoft's "next wave of platform technologies" is ready?
It’s taken five years, but it looks like the successor to Windows Server 2003, until recently known as Longhorn Server, is just about ready for release. A public beta (Beta 3) came out in April and it now has an official name — Windows Server 2008 — the addition of a date being a sure sign of its imminent launch.
In an attempt to get employees to give up Apple iPods in favour of its Zune MP3 player, Microsoft's Zune team has installed a bin at its HQ so employees can chuck out their iPods. A photo of the "iPod Amnesty Bin", which has on it an image of a bitten green apple and the words "Bite me," has been posted on Flickr. From the looks of the photo, not many people have been willing to give up their iPods, though a few of the earlier versions of Apple's popular media players were lying at the bottom of the bin.
Microsoft has confirmed Wednesday that it is looking into reports of a new Office zero-day flaw attackers could exploit to cause a denial of service or run malicious code on targeted Windows machines.
Microsoft is not the real patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, said Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. In fact, the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years, Shuttleworth predicted. Shuttleworth was responding to a recent Fortune magazine interview in which senior Microsoft figures sent shockwaves through the software industry by declaring that Linux and other open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents.
Microsoft Corp. released a pair of tools on Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer witnessed the signing of an agreement Monday requiring all of Vietnam's government offices to use licensed computer software in a step to curb rampant piracy.
"The agreement demonstrates very strong commitments of the government of Vietnam," in protecting intellectual property rights, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told Ballmer before the signing ceremony.
Vietnam's Ministry of Finance was the first government agency to sign the Microsoft Office licensing agreement during a visit by company Chairman Bill Gates last year.
MICROSOFT has agreed to pay $US6 billion ($7.26 billion) in cash to acquire aQuantive, a leading agency for internet ads which also has powerful technology that serves display and banner ads to other web sites. The eye-popping premium of 85 per cent Microsoft is paying for aQuantive reflects a heated race for the few remaining online advertising businesses, as media and technology companies jockey for position in the internet advertising market.
