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Are Wine users just whining about Microsofts anti-piracy plans? Or is Microsoft unfairly targeting and discriminating against customers attempting to run Windows programs on Unix and Linux? Microsoft Corp.s WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) program has had its share of critics. But this week, a number of open-source advocates joined the ranks of those questioning Microsofts […]

On Thursday, Microsoft and individuals representing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) met at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond to begin reviewing Longhorn to make sure it will comply with terms outlined in the final U.S. antitrust judgment against Microsoft. The compliance-review process is commencing none too soon, some industry-watchers say. Microsoft is set to release […]

Esme Vos, who runs MuniWireless.com, recently wrote eWEEK.com with her perspectives on how municipal wireless deployments have fostered increased competition, lower rates and enhanced services in the European broadband market. Here is her letter: One of the reasons I am very keen on seeing more municipal deployments is that finally there is one entity that […]

Radianse Inc., an indoor positioning service company, has introduced what it says is the first single-use active-RFID tag for patient location. The wristwatch-sized device is one-eighth the price of the average competitive tags marketed for patient location. Its designed to maximize comfort, safety and convenience across a patients length of stay. It can even be […]

In a complete about-face, Microsoft Corp. has decided to deliver a new, standalone version of its Internet Explorer browser in order to stem potential customer defections due to security and feature concerns. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that Microsoft will deliver Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows […]

Microsoft is working to integrate its various identity-management wares into a unified platform, upon which it will encourage third-party developers to build, according to partner sources. Its not clear whether Microsoft will use this weeks RSA conference in San Francisco to take the wraps off the new ID-management suite. Regardless, the company is moving full […]

A year ago at the RSA Security conference, Microsoft Corp. mapped out its Windows security road map. Some company watchers are speculating Microsoft will use next weeks RSA confab to provide an update on its progress, and, specifically, to detail its behavioral-blocking technology, code-named Mako. Microsoft officials at RSA 2004 said that the company was […]

Have you noticed that Microsoft is trimming substantially (yet quietly) the number of new product releases on its books? This is happening across a number of divisions of the company. In the past couple of months alone, weve seen Microsoft: Delay by a year the release of the next major version of its Axapta ERP […]

In response to our recent editorials on the battle for municipal Wi-Fi, reader Evan Wilner, a former public advocate for the state of Delaware, writes: Its always stimulating to come upon theoretical discussions such as “Cities Should Control Their Wi-Fi Fates.” I had expected, in response to your call for reader comments, that something more […]

Microsoft officials acknowledged Thursday that the company has decided to postpone by several months the final release-to-manufacturing date for its next major customer-relationship-management application. The product, code-named “Microsoft CRM 2.0,” originally was set to ship in 2004. Last year, Microsoft said it was delaying the CRM 2.0 release until the early part of 2005. Just […]

SAN FRANCISCO — When Microsoft delivers a beta version of Longhorn during the first half of this year, it will include support for “auxiliary displays,” company officials said Wednesday at the VSLive conference. Microsoft Corp. first talked about the auxiliary display concept at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference in 2004. And Intel Corp. showed a […]

Microsoft will make available to beta testers an updated release of its Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Service Pack 1), its new 64-bit edition of Windows XP and its 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2003 on Tuesday evening. AT 6 p.m. PST, the company is set to post for download the new “Release Candidate 2” (RC2) […]