Microsoft dismissed enthusiasts in Vista marketing
Spelling out which features of Windows Vista would work on a given PC might be useful to early adopters, but it would only “confuse the masses,” a high-level Microsoft Corp. manager argued more then a year before the operating system shipped, according to internal company e-mails.
If Google Gags, Won’t Microsoft-Yahoo?
Wall Street went bonkers yesterday over a ComScore report indicating that Google paid ad clicks growth had literally collapsed. Is that good or bad for Microsoft’s Yahoo acquisition? The answer is complicated, in part because there remains uncertainty about the decline’s cause.
EU fines Microsoft record $1.35 billion
The European Commission fined Microsoft a record 899 million euros ($1.35 billion) on Wednesday for defying sanctions imposed on the software giant for antitrust violations, far exceeding the original penalty.
Microsoft will push IE 8 public beta
Microsoft has surprised watchers by saying that it will shortly make a first beta of Internet Explorer 8 generally available, according to a staffer at IT Week who wishes to remain anonymous.
Judge greenlights lawsuit against Microsoft
A US judge has given the go-ahead for consumers to file a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for providing misleading information about Windows XP computers being able to run Vista.
Redmond’s “Windows Vista Capable” labels first appeared on computers in April 2006, even though the firm’s latest operating system didn’t get a general release until January [...]
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Build 3311 RC2
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides new proactive security technologies for Windows XP to better defend against viruses, worms, and hackers along with increased manageability and an improved experience for users.
Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs
Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1.
The list of programs consists mostly of security applications, such as Trend Micro Internet Security 2008. However, programs such as The New York Times Reader application also feature on the [...]
Microsoft Security Release ISO Image February 2008
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on February 12th, 2008. The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. This DVD5 ISO image is intended for administrators that need to download multiple individual language versions of each security update and that do not use [...]
