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Instead of releasing the third service pack to its Windows XP operating system on Tuesday, Microsoft said it will delay the launch due to the discovery of certain compatibility problems. Microsoft attributed the delay to a compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System and X...
Microsoft has just brought out the physical representation of its fifth major evolutionary change, and this one may turn out to be the most dramatic. The technology, Live Mesh, may actually both help Microsoft's customer satisfaction issues and help move Apple and Linux onto desktops everyplace. Spe...
Costco and Sam's Club are rationing rice. Friday's reported incident in the Persian Gulf probably has more than a few paranoid individuals stocking up on gasoline. And to top it all off, Microsoft's cutoff date for Windows XP is coming in two months, a decision that's left over 165,000 fans of the ...
Microsoft may reconsider its decision to pull Windows XP off the shelves in June if it sees enough customer demand, CEO Steve Ballmer said -- despite a huge customer outcry over the decision. Speaking at Louvain-La-Neuve University in Belgium, Ballmer also said it's a "statistical truth" that most p...
The clock is ticking for Microsoft to roll out the third and likely final service pack for its seven-year-old Windows XP operating system. Microsoft announced at the end of 2007 that the long-awaited service pack would be released sometime during the first half of 2008; however, thus far the company...
Microsoft Windows is collapsing under its own weight and must radically change for the sake of users, independent software vendors and Microsoft itself, according to research firm Gartner. Because Microsoft Windows is so large and complex, covering 20 years of legacy code, it can no longer adequatel...
Microsoft has again decided to let Windows XP operating system live a little longer. This time, the software maker has given the OS a reprieve in order to sell preloaded versions of Windows XP Home Edition in ultra-low cost PCs. A relatively new and increasingly popular class of mobile computers, ul...
Using mobile devices running Windows Mobile operating system may become a little easier with the upcoming release of Windows 6.1 and a few changes to Internet Explorer Mobile that Microsoft plans to make. The software maker unveiled new versions of its mobile OS and Web browser this week at the CTIA...
I was working on two things last week. One was the impact of the recession on the tech market and what would likely happen to tech spending; and the second was the release of Windows Vista SP1, which I've been using for several months on a number of machines. On the recession side, I've been particu...
Three days have passed since Microsoft released its first service pack for the Windows Vista operating system, but feedback from many users on the Vista Team blog point to a variety of issues with the software. While the majority of commenters on the site reported no problems with the download and i...
Microsoft rolled out the first service pack for its latest operating system, Vista, on Tuesday. Those eager to download the update can do so via the Windows Update site; Vista users in no hurry to get the service pack can wait until the software maker pushes the update out to users via its Automatic...
Five years after it began work on Singularity, an operating system research project focused on constructing dependable systems, Microsoft has released a research development kit to the academic and research community. The terms of the license make Singularity free software, not open source software....
Just as Microsoft began grappling with a glitch in the installation of a file required for its Vista Service Pack 1 download, another Vista SP1 hiccup has bubbled up. The company has confirmed that some applications may experience "a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pac...
A strong backlash from technical users of Windows Vista has forced Microsoft to revise its general release dates for Vista Service Pack 1. Vista SP1 will be released to Windows Update and to the download center in the first five languages in mid-March, said Mike Nash from Microsoft's Windows Product...
Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really u...
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