...r, Dell, Toshiba and Sony have also been sent subpoenas in the case, as has former Microsoft executive Jim Allchin . In a recently released e-mail from 2006, Allchin commented on the "Vista Cap...
Friday, March 28, 2008 09:03
...prising to see how little the PC buyer was considered in this (published) communication. Jim Allchin , who wanted Vista to become his masterpiece at Microsoft, was part of the communicati...
Friday, February 29, 2008 19:28
...that "Windows Vista Capable" PCs, which can run only the most basic version of Vista, are "junk," with Jim Allchin , then co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division, saying in an email...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:07
Jim Allchin , Microsoft's co-president of Platforms and Services, is clarifying some of his earlier statements by saying that most Windows Vista users will need some form of antivirus. During a teleph
Monday, November 13, 2006 10:28
... will get a version that fixes "many bugs" that were found in RC1. Platforms and services co-president Jim Allchin wrote in a message to beta testers that Microsoft has implemented "thousands of quali...
Friday, October 06, 2006 20:59
... promises to make the software available to "more than five million customers worldwide." According to Jim Allchin , co-president of the firm's platforms & services division, the RC1 was "done" las...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 17:02
Microsoft took a major step towards the release of Windows Vista on Friday, when Jim Allchin , co-president of the firm's platforms & services division, announced that Windows Vista RC1 is done!"
Friday, September 01, 2006 21:16
At the 10th annual CEO Summit today, Microsoft co-president Kevin Johnson announced the introduction of an enterprise-level tool called Windows Live Search, that will eventually integrate the search
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 21:58
With the Windows Vista-endowed computer already having been touted as the next great technological leap forward for consumers, it is difficult to imagine any great number of them willingly purchasing
Friday, March 24, 2006 01:18
In a move from Microsoft today that actually was anticipated - as opposed to the Windows Vista delay - the company has made another strategic realignment of its business divisions, which perhaps most
Thursday, March 23, 2006 19:36
According to Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin , the delay of the release of Windows Vista until after the holidays was requested by partners, who shall remain unnamed, and who apparently believed a
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 20:42
In what Microsoft called an update to its road map, doused with a liberal dose of the term "on track," the company announced today a delay to the release of its consumer editions of Windows Vista, un
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 00:39
Microsoft confirmed that it will "encourage" its partners to use Error Checking and Correction (ECC) memory modules for Vista computers - rather than the standard DDR devices common in desktop and no
Monday, February 06, 2006 18:32
...ows Vista, a company spokesperson yesterday told TG Daily that comments made last week by co-president Jim Allchin actually referred to a change in plan, but not a scrapping or skipping of the beta sy...
Thursday, February 02, 2006 16:27
Microsoft has hinted at the possibility of delaying Windows Vista if it does not meet quality expectations.
Monday, January 30, 2006 15:25
Microsoft is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot
Monday, December 05, 2005 19:10
In a reorganization of executive seating and titles that is not unprecedented - and may even be in keeping with tradition - Microsoft Corp. today announced a reorganization of its resources, cr
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 00:02
Microsoft plans to ship 32-bit, x64 and Itanium versions of its Longhorn server operating system, company executives said yesterday.
Thursday, April 21, 2005 16:17
Jim Allchin , group vice president of Microsoft's Platfroms Group, confirmed on Tuesday that the 64-bit edition of Windows Xp Professional will ship "within four weeks".
Wednesday, March 02, 2005 06:32
Among last week's headlines were several about Intel Corp.'s subsidy of Samsung Electronics' Rambus DRAM production.
Sunday, March 04, 2001 05:11
When Microsoft's top Windows OS man Jim Allchin recently said that Linux and open-source software not only stifle innovation but are un-American, advocates of non-proprietary software reacted.
Sunday, March 04, 2001 05:06
Phil Zimmermann is leaving Network Associates, the company that bought his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) in 1997, to become chief cryptographer for the Dublin, Ireland-based encryption company Hush
Wednesday, February 21, 2001 07:18
US lawmakers who sponsored legislation last congressional session aimed at giving consumers and ISPs more power to fight unwanted e-mail are reintroducing their bill.
Saturday, February 17, 2001 08:15
Microsoft's long-awaited NT upgrade has finally been released to manufacturing.
Thursday, December 16, 1999 06:41