It is known that the European Commission(EC) is considering forcing Microsoft to bundle rival browsers alongside IE in the Windows OS. It is likely that this is based on a complaint filed by Opera which...
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Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading...
Nine Lives Media has released its Open Source 50 Report that identifies the top 50 open source companies building channel partner programs. Varguy from Nine Lives Media analyzes the growth of Zimbra, an open source...
After some positive feedback from customers about last month's customer interview with City of Miami, The Windows Blog has come out with another Windows Vista customer insight. The Windows Blog interviews Mike Calabrese, Senior IT...
When is Microsoft finally going to start sharing information on Windows 7? After all, if the Redmondians stick to their own oft-quoted ship target of 2010 for the operating system, that is just two years...
The court case examines whether Microsoft's Windows Vista Capable and Express Upgrade programs were deceptive. Microsoft has lost the first round in a legal battle over whether its Windows Vista Capable and Express Upgrade programs...
XM Satellite Radio is experiencing a second day of outages after software problems resulted in the loss of one of the network's four satellites. Company officials initially expected to correct the problem yesterday evening, but...
Julie Marto of Medfield, Massachusetts, purchased a Dell Inspiron notebook running Windows XP last October. Through a program called Express Upgrade, she was promised a free copy of Windows Vista when the operating system became...
According to Tuesday's IBM annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the work force at International Business Machines Corporation grew 8% in 2006, with most of the rise coming in India. IBM noted that...
ComScore Networks' monthly analysis found that in the last month of 2006 (that's December for all North Americans still half asleep) Google not only continued to dominate the search engine market, but improved gained market...
Yahoo put another music track without DRM (digital rights management) on sale through its Yahoo Music service Tuesday. The Norah Jones single "Thinking About You" sells for $0.99, in MP3 format on Yahoo's music store,...
Tony Chor, the Group Program Manager for the IE Team has posted that Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP has been released in five new languages: German, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Finnish. They are...
American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu thinks it's a "positive" that Apple has now revealed the findings of its stock options investigation. He sees the company as having taken some significant steps forward to...
Apple executives are hiring lawyers as the company's stock options debacle continues. The news emerges as Apple CEO Steve Jobs faces further enquiries following revelations that two senior executives at his one-time other company,...
After poking around the Windows Vista networking stack, Symantec researchers have tried out privilege-escalation attacks on an early version of the Windows XP successor. In a second report on Vista, Symantec takes on a security...
I just got this in my email a few hours ago, way to go Nintendo! In a triumph for innovation, the dual-screen Nintendo DS(TM) portable became America's top-selling video game...
Search giant Google is reasonably notorious for amusing and subtle April fools pranks. Previous years have seen technological revolutions such as PigeonRank, their patent pending new search technology using pigeons. Not to...
After a rocky release due to hackers and errors, ROSE is finally making some excellent progress. Rush on Seven Episodes' North American website released this notice: ROSE NA said: ...
Apple Computer, which last year said inexplicable cracks in the displays of its iPod nano digital music players were an isolated issue, continues this year to repair such damages free-of-charge and has instructed its partners...
Even though big name MMORPG's such as World of Warcraft and Everquest 2 have gotten the most attention from gamers, CCP Games is proud of thier continued success with EVE Online. CCP Games announced that...
Vendors are continuing to address a security hole in the very popular Zlib data compression library. Zlib is used in many third-party programs, and it is distributed with many operating systems, including most Linux and...
IBM said Wednesday that it has reached a partial settlement in a massive lawsuit alleging that it discriminated against older workers when it switched pension plans in 1999. Under the terms of the agreement --...
NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced availability of a new 64-bit demonstration for NVIDIA nForce™3- and AMD Athlon™ 64 processor-based PCs and notebooks. The highly-graphical 3D demo portrays a liquid-like...
The chipmaker says it will use a "performance-power rating" to name its processors, resulting in names that have higher numbers than the clock rating expressed in megahertz. In the latest step...
The recording industry on Monday sued 493 more people it said were illegally sharing music across the Internet. The latest round of lawsuits raised to nearly 3,000 the number of people who have been sued...
Microsoft Corp. today announced the addition of the XML schema used by Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003, DataDiagramML, to the Microsoft Open and Royalty-Free Office 2003 XML reference schema program announced in November 2003. Through the...
25th March 2004 - London - UK - A recent survey by Microsoft UK has found that 70% of independent software vendors (ISVs) will be developing applications for the Tablet PC by end of 2005...
Cisco Systems continues its security-vendor buying spree. The network gear maker said last week that it plans to acquire security startup Twingo Systems Incorporated for about US$5 million in cash. The deal is expected to...
Though Apple doesn't fancy itself a high-performance computing giant, the company says it's making some headway in regard to both supercomputers and smaller-scale clusters. The Mac maker's machines made a surprise leap...
Continuing its war of words against the Linux community, The SCO Group Inc. on Wednesday accused free software advocates of threatening the intellectual property protections provided by U.S. and European law. "There is a group...
INCREASED DEMAND and lack of supply are putting pressure on LCD panels and that's likely to continue well into next year, according to Samsung, one of the monitor giants. And that's good news for the...
Nintendo's Cube revival has continued in impressive fashion in time for the Christmas rush, with Chart-Track figures released today revealing sales of the budget-priced console rising by 35 per cent week on week, placing the...
Eagle-eyed followers of the UK games market may already have noticed the Megaman Battle Network titles on the GBA popping up in stores, and doing surprisingly well in reviews; now the blue lycra clad digital...
As expected, Oracle said Thursday it has extended its offer to buy all the common stock of PeopleSoft Inc., a deal valued at about $6.3 billion. The original offer, made nearly one month ago,...
New Security Initiatives Make Trustworthy Computing Actionable for IT Professionals Today at Microsoft® Tech·Ed, Scott Charney, chief trustworthy computing strategist at Microsoft Corp., announced several new security initiatives that continue the...
The conman found guilty of fraudulently stealing domain Sex.com and ordered to pay $65 million in damages has continued his farcical legal fight with a plea to the US Supreme Court. Stephen...
Windows Server 2003 isn't the only Microsoft product that no longer sports the .Net brand name. Microsoft seems to have learned a lesson from decision to remove ".Net" from the Windows Server...
The good news for Linux as an operating system for the desktop--as opposed to the server--is that it is set to become No. 2 after Windows in the next year or so. The bad news...
Thanks nexty for sending this one in! Sony is seeking to have the use of modification chips for the PS2 stopped in Australia, but a government agency has stepped in on behalf...
Intel dropped prices on its Pentium III chips for desktops and servers. The chipmaker continues its Pentium III closeout sale, eyeing the chip's eventual departure from the desktop PC market, where it will be...
Latest VMware update is free with no license, fixes Windows 11 and Linux freezes, crashes
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PowerToys 0.87 is out with a new utility for Windows 10 users and a lot of improvements
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