http://www.wininsider.com/ News and Information about latest technologies, delivered via the latest technology. [Keywords: .Net, Microsoft, Windows XP, IT News, technology, computing, internet, DELL, blackcombe, longhorn] en-us Copyright 2004 WinInsider.com http://www.wininsider.com http://www.wininsider.com/design/buttons/WinInsider.gif 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 45 Fri, 5 May 2009 21:33 GMT http://www.wininsider.com/news/?9002 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?9002#comments Fri, 07 May 2009 21:32:58 GMT Microsoft is quietly gearing up for the last public test of Windows 7 before it goes to PC makers and software retailers. The question is, with so much pent up demand, will users be able to get a download to test?Put another way: Will Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) download servers be able to handle the crush?Early indications Thursday, following a preliminary rollout out to subscribers to Microsoft's key technical services -- MSDN and TechNet -- are that demand will be high on Tuesday, May 5, when Microsoft releases the Windows 7 Release Candidate to the public. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?9001 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?9001#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2006 05:58:37 GMT Microsoft hopes to quadruple Internet advertising sales within three years using technology that links ad purchases among online products, including MSN search and Xbox games.Microsoft, which trails rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. in Internet ad sales, is testing software called adCenter that will sell and display promotional links next to MSN search results. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?9000 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?9000#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2006 16:20:55 GMT Microsoft on Friday responded to a written report filed by the South Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) that outlines the agency's December 2005 decision to fine the company and order it to offer two different versions of Windows in South Korea.The FTC's decision, made last December, is not supported by facts and if it is allowed to stand it will have a negative effect on Korean consumers and Korean innovation, Microsoft said. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8999 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8999#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2006 16:17:14 GMT And I thought these guys were good only for making video game microprocessors. This week, IBM researchers described a new method of microprocessor creation that will result in chips less than one-third the size of today's microprocessors. The new microprocessors will be denser, storing far more data in the same amount of space as today's chips. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8998 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8998#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2006 15:52:40 GMT Microsoft is testing a new Web-based service that will allow parents to control their children's online activity and block access to sites that are not appropriate for kids.Several Microsoft-watcher blogs, such as Liveside.net and Neowin.net have reported that a service called Windows Live Family Safety Settings is currently in beta. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8997 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8997#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2006 16:29:40 GMT Microsoft's Windows program became the top-selling operating system for running the server computers that anchor corporate networks and Web sites for the first time in 2005, according to market research company IDC.Windows servers accounted for $17. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8996 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8996#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2006 16:27:59 GMT Microsoft is is no hurry as it evaluates China for a possible launch of the Xbox 360, the company official in charge of the game console for the region said Thursday.;We're working with the government pretty actively in trying to understand what it is we need to do, said Alan Bowman, general manager of entertainment and devices for Asia Pacific and Greater China. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8995 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8995#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2006 16:25:50 GMT Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server initially will be limited in how users can access it over the Internet, according to a Microsoft blogger.Due in March, the product will provide collaboration as part of the company's Visual Studio 2005 Team System ALM (application lifecycle management) platform. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8994 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8994#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2006 16:24:15 GMT Microsoft took the unusual step Thursday of making public its formal response to European Union charges that it was failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust ruling.The response, which companies usually keep confidential, was filed on Feb.15 as the EU threatened the Redmond, Wash. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8993 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8993#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2006 16:31:47 GMT Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in recent years to secure its software. Now it's payback time.Until recently, security was just something that the software company got hammered on--a perennial headache, with no upside. But now, four years after Chairman Bill Gates launched his Trustworthy Computing push, Microsoft is starting to see security as a potential selling point. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8992 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8992#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2006 16:29:24 GMT Before the end of the year, Microsoft plans to roll out 34 suites, programs, servers, services and tools that will form its new 2007 Microsoft Office system family of products, previously known as Office 12.Retail pricing for the product remains unchanged from Office 2003, John Cairns, senior director of licensing and pricing in Microsoft's Information Worker division, told eWEEK. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8991 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8991#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2006 16:28:08 GMT As expected, Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is shipping the first feature-complete test release of Windows Vista -- this one aimed at giving enterprise customers a chance to run it through rigorous testing, especially for compatibility with existing corporate applications. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8990 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8990#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2006 16:26:38 GMT Some of Microsoft's biggest rivals lodged a new complaint with the European Commission Wednesday over its Office applications suite and other, upcoming products, arguing that the company's business practices are shutting out competitors.A coalition called the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, which includes vendors such as IBM, Nokia, Oracle, RealNetworks, and Red Hat, announced that it had made a formal complaint to the Commission over a range of products present and future. http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8989 http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8989#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2006 16:25:03 GMT Microsoft's Windows edged out Unix in 2005 as the best-selling server operating system, research firm IDC said Wednesday, marking the first time Unix hasn't held the top spot in more than a decade.Windows servers accounted for $17.7 billion in revenues last year, the Framingham, Mass.