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1. Microsoft: No backdoor in Windows 7

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   But NSA admits involvement in OS security guide Microsoft has rebuffed reports that a "backdoor" was deliberately coded into its Windows 7 operating system. "Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' ...

2. SAP's Leo Apotheker dismisses Oracle's bid for power

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   ... be  considered to be very reliable."  Would IBM or Microsoft buy SAP? Apotheker declined to answer that question. SAP isn't interested in buying IBM, he quipped. ...

3. Steve Ballmer admits Microsoft’s biggest mistake

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 18 June 2009

   During his address at the Executives Club Chicago, Steve Ballmer opened himself up to a little question and answer session in which I am sure he now regrets. The crowd went completely silent and you could ...

4. Microsoft admits Windows 7 will not save PC market

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 09 June 2009

   A high-ranking Microsoft executive has conceded that the initial release of Windows 7 will not lead to a significant increase in PC sales. According to senior VP Bill Veghte, enthusiasm over Windows ...

5. Windows 7: Clean UI, multi-touch and more speed

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 28 October 2008

     Microsoft today delivered an impressive first demonstration of the Windows 7 feature set and the way how it improves key Vista shortcomings. There was enough information to keep every Windows ...

6. Is Chrome an indication of what to expect from Android?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Monday, 08 September 2008

     Analyst Opinion - Google recently released a new browser set to compete directly with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Firefox Mozilla. Chrome is supposed to provide a more compelling, easier ...

7. Toshiba’s new Blu-ray beater is a … DVD player

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 18 August 2008

   ... will certainly take another direction with Blu-ray representing the online/offline option and Internet movie streaming, which is promoted by companies such as Microsoft, the pure online choice.    ...

8. Microsoft’s Project Mojave: Changing the perceptions of Windows Vista

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 29 July 2008

     Analyst Opinion - Microsoft just released videos of the “Mojave Experiment”, which basically was a survey session aiming to convince a bunch of folks that Windows Vista is not as bad as they may ...

9. Leaked memo offers a peek inside Steve Ballmer's head

   (Software/Software Features)

   Sunday, 27 July 2008

   The Microsoft CEO has Apple, Yahoo and Google in his sights and will deliver a $300 million ad campaign to address any lingering doubts about Vista. He will try to copy-cat Apple's vertically integrated approach; ...

10. MobileMe update: What is still missing and incomplete

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 17 July 2008

    ... Some believe that it is no accident that Apple is not supporting IE, claiming there are no technical obstacles that would prevent Microsoft's browser to run the MobileMe web interface. We expect that MobileMe ...

11. A virtualized Windows Vista for $23 per year

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 22 January 2008

    There is no doubt that Microsoft is late to the virtualization party, given the traction companies such as VMWare have gained in recent months. However, the company today outlined its “Dynamic IT” ...

12. Microsoft admits Office 2003 service pack error

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 07 January 2008

    Redmond (WA) - ZDNet UK's Richard Thurston is reporting that Microsoft has admitted it made a mistake over a security advisory issued in December relating to Office 2003.  When SP3 was released, ...

13. Counterfeit rate of Vista half that of XP

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 04 December 2007

    Pushing good news back into the Windows Vista scene, Microsoft claims that its next-generation operating system is more robust at preventing counterfeit attempts. Redmond (WA) - Pushing good news back ...

14. What if you were Steve Jobs?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 06 September 2007

    ... it exploits the two major weaknesses of the Microsoft Zune – the Touch shows Microsoft how Wi-Fi is done right and it makes the Zune look embarrassingly ugly. In that sense, the iPod product team ...

15. Microsoft releases details on Vista SP1

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 29 August 2007

    Microsoft says Service Pack 1 for Vista should be available in the next few weeks to select beta testers and the general public in the first quarter of 2008. Redmond (WA) – Microsoft says Service ...

16. Best Buy lawyer admits to destroying evidence

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 11 June 2007

    ... credit card information to Microsoft, causing him to be billed for the service. Odom filed a lawsuit against Best Buy, causing a light to be shed on a deal that had allegedly been going on with Best Buy ...

17. First vulnerability in Vista's Windows Mail discovered

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 26 March 2007

    ... initially appeared to be similarly innocuous. And Microsoft will now be judged against the grandiose promises it made with regard to the security of Vista.   Copyright note: This story was provided ...

18. Conquering the cellphone market won’t be a walk in the park for Apple – analyst opinion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 15 February 2007

    ... be relatively clueless and the iPod entered the holiday buying season the next year virtually unopposed.   Recently, Microsoft tried to run against the iPod but the company’s traditional inability ...

19. Microsoft admits open source patent pledge misses the target

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 15 November 2006

      Microsoft has admitted execution flaws with its promise not to sue open source software developers and invited the wider community to tell the software firm how it can get it right. Microsoft has ...

20. Google is for girls?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 28 June 2006

    Webpronews reports about Microsoft's "Demographic Prediction" tool that recently has been made available on the company's Ad Center Labs website. Webpronews reports about Microsoft's "Demographic Prediction" ...

21. Symantec: Microsoft misappropriated trade secrets to build virtualization tools

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 May 2006

    In yesterday's federal court filing, Symantec's legal director told TG Daily this afternoon, Microsoft misappropriated Veritas' intellectual property to build virtualization tools of its own, perhaps ...

22. Microsoft tweaks Vista logo compliance language

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 18 May 2006

    And then there were two...With the introduction today of a new "Get Ready for Windows Vista" Web site, Microsoft pared down its Vista compliance tiers, trimming some of the confusing language, and removing ...

23. Blockbuster holds off on high-def, in-store rentals

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 13 April 2006

    ... is Microsoft, whose chairman, Bill Gates, has been quoted several times recently as saying that video discs are fast becoming historical remnants, as digital delivery of multimedia content evolves to what ...

24. Microsoft and open source: no longer incompatible?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 07 April 2006

    Interoperability is the watchword at Microsoft these days, but the question is, is it by choice or by design? Last week, the company's Open Source Software laboratories debuted a new blog, called Port ...

25. Next-gen HDTVs may hide first-gen HD DVD limits, says Microsoft

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 24 March 2006

    ... says AACS spokesperson Richard Doherty, a Microsoft employee. So you shouldn't see a difference...provided, from a CE retailer's perspective, you bet the farm. Redmond (WA) - As Toshiba continues its ...

26. Microsoft admits some Vista info was prematurely posted

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 21 February 2006

    Reuters is reporting this afternoon that Microsoft is confirming a discovery made by Microsoft Watch , the independent news service run by veteran journalist Mary Jo Foley, that certain details of product ...

27. UPDATE 21 NOV - Sony's DRM disaster: A chronology of events

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 November 2005

    ... finds something strange. Russinovich, Co-author of Windows Internals (Microsoft Press) and developer of several Windows utilities tools on the Sysinternals.com website, finds evidence of what he thinks ...

28. iHD less expensive than Blu-ray alternative, thanks to Vista, says HP

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 31 October 2005

      Microsoft's plans to make the XML-based iHD interactive provision a component of Windows Vista will drive down production costs for computer manufacturers, says an HP official. The cost reduction, ...

29. Microsoft admits targeting Wine users

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 25 February 2005

      Microsoft prioritised making its anti-piracy tool prevent users of Wine, an open source toolkit that allows users to run Windows applications under Linux, from downloading Windows updates, the software ...

30. MS admits virus in tech support files

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 27 April 2001

      Microsoft Corp. The Recording Industry Association of America, among others, has succeeded in convincing the members of the Princeton-led team who were invited to crack the Secure Digital Music ...

31. Microsoft admits ineptitude

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 30 January 2001

      Microsoft CIO Rick Devenuti says that Microsoft Corp. A writer for LinuxWorld says that Sun is crippling its own open-source Java by refusing to give up Solaris in favor of the open-source Linux. ...

32. Sega admits Dreamcast in limbo

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 25 January 2001

      Only hours after an American executive of Sega Corp. Microsoft Corp. has paid $20 million to Sun Microsystems to end the case claiming that the Redmond OS company altered Java, in violation of ...

33. MS Office for Linux or not?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 25 August 2000

      During the recent LinuxWorld conference, rumors persisted that Microsoft was preparing a Linux version of Office. During the recent LinuxWorld conference, rumors persisted that Microsoft was preparing ...

34. Microsoft admits software `backdoor'

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 15 April 2000

      Microsoft has acknowledged that its engineers planted a secret password in a file in some of its Internet software that could be used to gain access to hundreds of thousands of Internet sites worldwide. ...

35. Windows 2000 goes gold - at last

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 16 December 1999

      Microsoft's long-awaited NT upgrade has finally been released to manufacturing. Microsoft's long-awaited NT upgrade has finally been released to manufacturing. The Windows 2000 operating system ...