In a move some think has the potential to stall the adoption of OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an international standard, Microsoft has joined the V1 Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface group within the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), a Washington-based organisation.
Microsoft's delay in shipping its Windows Vista operating system won't put a big dent in PC sales, although growth for the PC industry is going to slow in the coming years, IDC predicts.
Early local users of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) are impressed with the way it builds on the previous capabilities of Visual Studio.
The drive to replace DVD technology with newer discs boasting greater storage capacity has come down to two major competing formats, and the coming marketplace battle will be bad for companies and users, the head of a major US technology products retailer says.
Microsoft will stay at the top of the growing corporate email market, thanks partly to its software's new wireless push capabilities, according to a new report from The Radicati Group.
Microsoft has released a patch for the critical Windows Metafile Format (WMF) security hole in its graphics rendering engine today, four days sooner than it said. The WMF vulnerability has been known since mid December last year, but Microsoft earlier said it wouldn't have a patch ready until January 10.
NFR Security unveils a protection against a zero-day Windows exploit that hackers have been targeting since last week. The exploit is in the way several versions of Microsoft's Windows OS handle corrupted .WMF (Windows Metafile) graphic files.
The state government official who had been moving Massachusetts away from Microsoft Corp.'s digital document formats has resigned. Peter Quinn, Chief Information Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will quit his position, effective January 9, according to an internal memo.
Microsoft may be cooking up a major internet partnership to rival Google's newly bolstered relationship with American Online (AOL), according to a blog posting by a Microsoft manager.
After flirting for months with Google competitors, America Online has reached a deal with the Mountain View, California, search-engine giant that expands their years-long technology and advertising partnership and ends advances from suitors, particularly Microsoft.
Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing email from phones and other wireless devices.
Microsoft has released to manufacturing a long-awaited interim update to the current version of Windows Server OS, Windows Server 2003 R2.
Microsoft has unveiled a host of new business intelligence (BI) features that will be available in the next version of Microsoft Office, code-named Office 12, which is expected to ship early next year. The move is seen as an effort to show that Office as more than just a productivity suite.
Symantec has complained to European Commission antitrust regulators about Microsoft's entrance into the security business, setting the stage for a possible antitrust case against Microsoft, the Dow Jones Newswire reported on Thursday.