Microsoft Announces Windows XP Media Center Edition - 7/16/2002 This holiday season's home PCs will look less like beige boxes and more like electronics equipment, so Microsoft is urging manufacturers to move them into the living room with Windows XP Media Center Edition -- a new OEM operating system with digital video, music, and photo playback designed to be enjoyed from across the room via a supplied remote control.
Microsoft Announces Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Upgrade - 11/17/2003 A year after their debut, Tablet PCs still cost more and sell less than conventional notebooks, but Microsoft is redoubling its commitment to pen input with better handwriting recognition and easier digital-ink note-taking across Office 2003 and other applications. But while Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 is shipping now, Tablet PC Edition 2004 isn't due until next spring.
Microsoft Backs Open Document Format - 7/6/2006 Caving to government pressure, the software giant creates a bridge between ODF and its Open XML format.
Microsoft Boosts Home Office Users With Personal Collection 2002 - 1/28/2002 Isn't Works Suite the official Microsoft package for home and family users? Well, yes, but a lot of consumers opt for the extra power of Microsoft Office applications like Excel and PowerPoint -- and for them, Microsoft's new Personal Collection 2002 combines over 600 project templates and organizing aids with a convenient bundle of Money, Encarta, and Picture It Photo.
Microsoft Bows to Web Standard Pressure - 3/4/2008 Redmond decides to make the latest version of Internet Explorer comply to the highest possible Net protocols.
Microsoft Case Sent to Court of Appeals - 9/27/2000 Microsoft scored a small victory when the US Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would not hear the antitrust case before the court of appeals.
Microsoft Changes Position on Re-Imaging Fees - 9/18/2000 Until recently, companies that had bought PCs with OEM Windows licenses were not allowed to re-image Windows onto the same PCs without paying a license upgrade. Microsoft has since relaxed this requirement.
Microsoft Changes Tune On Gore's Monday Visit - 11/14/1999 Microsoft agreed to Vice President Al Gore's last-minute demand that his upcoming visit to the company be opened to the press, averting a cancellation.
Microsoft Closer on 'Office Open' Blessing - 3/1/2007 The software vendor's hopes for quick approval of its proposed standard takes on more urgency as momentum for open standards grows.
Microsoft Counts Down to Small Business Server 2003 Launch - 9/22/2003 Small companies don't need a full-time IT staff, says Microsoft, to reap the benefits of the Office integration, team collaboration, and messaging and security functions of Windows Server 2003. The software giant has released Small Business Server 2003 to manufacturing for shipping next month.
Microsoft Cuts Office XP and Application Prices - 6/2/2003 It's still $100 more than Corel WordPerfect Office and $399 more than the free OpenOffice.org suite, but retail shoppers will find Microsoft Office XP costs $80 less than it did last week. Word 2002, Excel 2002, and other standalone programs get price cuts, too, while corporate volume buyers enjoy new licensing permissions including the right to use their Office applications at home.
Microsoft Debuts Street-Level Search - 7/25/2005 It's getting to be a small world after all as Redmond becomes the latest to uncover the nooks and crannies of your 'hood.
Microsoft Defends OOXML - 1/18/2008 In the run up to a final standards determination for its Office Open XML file formats, Microsoft makes its case.
Microsoft Defends Security Approaches - 1/31/2005 With IE facing eroding market share, Redmond has launched at least four security initiatives in the last month. What gives?
Microsoft Delivers a Plethora of Patches - 2/13/2008 After almost no fixes last month, the company turns out 11 security bulletins, calling six of them "critical."
Microsoft Demos New Visio Features - 2/6/2008 Microsoft shows off coming updates to its Visio diagramming tool, including support for Office 2007's vaunted "ribbon" UI.
Microsoft Details Its 'Mesh' Vision - 4/25/2008 The software giant thinks it has a way to tie all of your devices to all of your data through services in the cloud.
Microsoft Drops More Hints About Office 11's Highlight: InfoPath - 2/10/2003 It's becoming clear that the most ambitious thing about this year's upgrade of Microsoft Office has nothing to do with new features for Word or Excel -- it's about making applications even easier for users while providing even deeper, more seamless links to the enterprise database. Here's an update on the XML-fluent electronic forms package that's the hub of Microsoft's plan.
Microsoft Encarta 2004 Takes Encyclopedias to the Next Level - 6/30/2003 Any encyclopedia can show your kids pictures of glaciers, but Microsoft's newest edition of the CD or DVD extravaganza Encarta offers Discovery Channel video of glaciers and dozens of other topics -- plus new navigation and homework-helping tools and a slew of built-in and online updates and multimedia information resources.
