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I have a great show this week even if your not a Media Center enthusiast. Windows expert Ed Bott joined me for a live show a couple of weeks ago talking about Vista Service Pack 1. We talked about many...
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First I read that RIM is moving in to Las Colinas, now Microsoft is hiring for that location as well. What's going on in Las Colinas, TX? Job Title: Support Professional Job Category: Product Support...
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British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) said in a report on...
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Anil Dash writes: Although I've been accused sometimes of reflexive contrariness , the truth is I'm just pretty consistent in my assessments of technology, with little regard for the perceptions...
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CIO.com is reporting Microsoft has bought comparative shopping Web site Jellyfish.com, which gives its customers a cut of advertising revenue from retailers, offering a rebate on purchases made through...
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Online auctions selling illegal software worth more than $8m have been detected and closed down during the first half of 2007. Anti-software piracy body the Business Software Alliance, which represents...
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More info has been revealed about Microsoft's new Media Extenders for Windows Vista. Extenders allow users to stream content from Microsoft Windows Media Center to their televisions, in the same way...
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Early reviews of the third installment of the blockbuster shooter game from Microsoft Corp. have given the title one of the highest scores in the history of the sector on the eve of its launch this week...
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Bill Gates earned his $59bn fortune from Microsoft Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been ranked as the wealthiest person in America for the 14th year in a row. Forbes magazine put Gates' fortune...
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Check out the commercial.
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I installed the Outlook Connector posted today and it updated the version from 1058 to 1063.
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Mark Russinovich has released Process Explorer for Windows v11.0. Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about...
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Availability of the Windows Vista Secure Digital (SD) hotfix rollup package This article lists the Secure Digital (SD) issues that are fixed in the Windows Vista SD hotfix rollup package. Go here .
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Windows Desktop Search (WDS) helps you find virtually anything on your PC or your networked drives including e-mail messages, calendar appointments, documents, and more. Searching your computer is now...
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A beta version of Microsoft’s Windows Live Search engine was released, and is available for testing at http://www.live.com . It should be in beta phase for the next few months. It is slated to replace...
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Appears the dates for early registration for MMS 2006 have been extended to March 20th (from the original March 6th date). However, if you haven’t registered yet, there’s a posting on the registration...
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Microsoft said Friday that it has purchased technology from String Bean Software, a privately-held company based in Montgomery Village, Md., as part of its effort to boost Windows' support for the iSCSI...
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Microsoft Corp. will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the U.S. and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said today. "What we're saying is that in six months'...
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For those interested, Microsoft has posted documents related to its defense in the European Commission suit.
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If you own, buy more. If you don’t, buy? Microsoft's net income rose 24%, fueled by strong corporate and consumer demand for computers that run its software, as revenue climbed to $9.74 billion....
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Microsoft has revealed plans to release a third service pack for its Windows XP operating system. “There will be a Service Pack 3 for Windows XP," Bernard Ourghanlian, technical and security director...
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An admitted counterfeiter has agreed to pay Microsoft and Symantec $1.1 million in restitution, a victory in the software industry's fight against software piracy. The award is part of a plea agreement...
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SP2 for OneNote 2003 is available on the Microsoft Update site (not the Office Update site…yet).
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Check the Microsoft downloads (or Office download sites). SP2 is out for all Office 2003 applications.
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Microsoft has consolidated six divisions into three, each with its own president: the Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division, led by Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin as co-presidents until Allchin...
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Microsoft and Google meet in a Seattle courtroom today to debate a decision in an increasingly heated employment battle over Google's hiring of a former Microsoft vice president. Microsoft plans to argue...
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It’s hard to blog about other topics today, but the commonwealth of Massachusetts has proposed a plan to phase out office productivity applications from Microsoft and other providers in favor of...
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At least for me anyway… When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer. Indeed, there's...
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Weblogs, Inc., announced the publication of an insightful interview between Engadget Editor (Engadget.com) Peter Rojas and Microsoft Founder Bill Gates. In part one of this two part interview series published...
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Is Microsoft is ready to divorce NBC News and depart MSNBC? Rumor has it that the revised name will be the NBC News Channel.
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