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Microsoft Corp. quietly has formed a new Server and Tools subunit, known as the Connected Systems Division, designed to bring together a variety of Microsoft Web services, identity management and other middleware products under common management. Microsoft officials briefed industry analysts on the creation of CSD late last week. CSD will unify Microsofts DSG (Distributed […]

After remaining mum for months over the extent to which it plans to support the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) standard with its forthcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 browser, Microsoft has gone public with its plans. Late last week, Internet Explorer lead program manager Chris Wilson posted to his blog a list of fixes, many of […]

Whatever happened to Internet via power lines (Editorial, “Broadband Access for All,” July 25)? The idea is not new. I used it more than 50 years ago—we called it carrier-communication or wired-wireless, and built transmitters and receivers operating below the AM broadcast band. Richard Herndon

[Guest columnist and Association for Competitive Technology President] Jonathan Zucks claim that the “[Free Software Foundation] and its allies nearly scuttled the standards process for e-mail authentication” in refusing to support a registration requirement fails to point out that “those who developed the products” (care to bet how many were commercial software companies?) were equally […]

When Ballmer says that Linux has not “gained at our expense,” you have to wonder if hes talking about the Xbox (“Microsoft Sets Sights on Search,” July 25). While Linux has not cut into Microsofts desktop business, every Linux server installation is a place Microsoft wanted to be. Jeff CostaAtlanta Check out eWEEK.coms for Microsoft […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsofts MSN unit is getting new search, social-networking, Web e-mail and advertising-platform products ready to roll in the coming months, according to company officials. MSN officials demonstrated a few of these future products and technologies during a session titled “Winning in Internet Services” held during the companys annual financial analyst meeting here Thursday. Officials […]

Microsoft Corp. made available to beta testers on Wednesday two slightly different test versions of Internet Explorer 7.0, the next version of the companys Web browser. Microsoft included IE 7.0 bits in the Beta 1 build of Windows Vista that the company began distributing, via download, to beta testers on Wednesday. It also released a […]

While Vista Beta 1 is stealing most of the headlines this week, Microsoft also is delivering simultaneously on Wednesday to a select group of private testers the first beta of its Longhorn Server product. Microsoft has not yet decided on a final name for the next version of its Windows Server operating system (other than […]

Motorola has announced three Linux/Java phones, which it says further demonstrate “Motorolas commitment to driving Linux-for-mobile innovation across the companys device spectrum.” The A728, A732 and A910 target mobile professionals. Additionally, Motorola will partner with Yahoo on mobile-phone and iRadio product content. The A728 appears to be a cost-optimized version of the companys earlier A760i […]

In preparing for the imminent Beta 1 release of Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7.0, Microsoft posted to the Web new information about new features expected in the pending product releases. Microsoft made available on Tuesday two separate privacy notices, providing information about data that Microsoft intends to collect during the beta testing process. Those […]

The next wave of Microsoft Corp.s Real-Time Collaboration unit products, slated for 2006, is coming into clearer focus. On the road map are new RTC client, server and services offerings, according to company officials, who outlined the divisions plans during a recent Microsoft Webcast. The forthcoming RTC lineup includes “Next Gen Server,” the next release […]

WS__FTP Pro Keeps Large Files Moving If you say “FTP” to 95 percent of the people who use the Internet on a daily basis, theyll probably think you want to send some flowers or are talking about an old alternative rock band. And most of those who know what FTP is—as in file transfer protocol—are […]