Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft and Nokia‘s newly announced partnership, which will see a mobile version of Microsoft Office loaded onto Nokia smartphones, has a definite short-term target: Research In Motion‘s BlackBerry. An eWeek interview with Microsoft and Nokia spokespeople following the companies’ joint press conference on Aug. 12 suggested that the mobile Microsoft Office applications would likely come […]

The online community has been debating whether sites should continue to support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, with some IT administrators and security experts publicly asking whether now is the time to think about shutting down the 8-year-old browser. The newest flurry of debate erupted after Digg, a content-sharing Website, suggested in July that it could […]

Microsoft has issued an update to Internet Explorer 8 that will change its setup experience, presenting users with an upfront choice about whether or not to stick with a rival browser. The update, which had been anticipated for more than a month, rolled out as part of Aug. 11’s Patch Tuesday. “IE will never install, […]

Microsoft‘s sale of Razorfish, its digital marketing agency, to French advertising agency Publicis Groupe is yet another sign of the Redmond, Wash., company’s strategic refocusing on its core businesses. With the $530 million deal, announced Aug. 9, Razorfish joins other Microsoft properties that have been sold or eliminated over the course of the summer. “We […]

Confidela has released WatchDox Pro and WatchDox Business, two updated applications for software-as-a-service, or SAAS, document control, tracking and protection. The WatchDox application allows users to set controls for a document, such as an expiration date or a request to track whether the recipient views, prints or forwards the document in question onto someone else. […]

After months of wrestling with European antitrust regulators, Microsoft has decided to issue the same version of Windows 7 in the European Union as in the rest of the world. Previously, Microsoft had intended to ship Windows 7 E, a separate EU version of its upcoming operating system that would have lacked Internet Explorer 8, […]

Microsoft‘s recent cuts of applications and services suggest not only that the recession is having an effect on the company’s bottom line, but also that Microsoft has a larger corporate strategy of retrenching and focusing on core products such as the upcoming Windows 7 operating system and Office 2010. Many of the programs and services […]

Originally a niche occupied by key players such as Amazon.com and Sony, the e-reader market has the potential to expand rapidly in the near term, thanks to a host of factors ranging from price point to the age of users. In turn, this could help drive the flat-screen devices into small to medium-sized businesses and […]

As rumors of an Apple tablet PC reach a fever pitch, a new research note by Piper Jaffray suggests that any such device would be a significant revenue generator and drastically affect the market for mininotebooks, also known as netbooks. The Aug. 7 report, written by analyst Gene Munster along with analysts Michael Olson and […]

Microsoft made Windows 7 RTM available for download to volume license customers on Aug. 7, a day after it opened the final version of the operating system to download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Volume license customers will be able to download through the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). MSDN and TechNet subscribers can download […]

Microsoft has secured the Office.com URL, which will presumably become the platform for its upcoming Microsoft Office 2010. A quick search on Whois.net reveals that Microsoft Corporation was indeed registered as Domain Administrator of office.com as of Aug. 4. The registration expires on April 19, 2019. According to TechCrunch, the Office.com domain name was previously […]