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Clock is ticking on Windows XP
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag After a long-announced transition, 30 June marks the end of an era at Microsoft. Well, really it's the end of two eras. Not only does the date mark the departure of Bill Gates but another epoch is also... [16 Jun 2008]
Internet Explorer 8 - websites warned to prep for problems
News As part of this week's IE June security update for IE8 Beta 1, Microsoft introduced a new tag, 'IE+EmulateIE7' - which it is counting on to head off some of the incompatibilities the company is anticipating could occur, based on feedback it... [13 Jun 2008]
O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News The cost of the handset for those on lower cost tariffs (£30 or £35 per month) will be £99 - which is a significant drop from the original £269 price-tag. O2 has finally opened its arms to UK businesses large and small wanting to use the Apple iPhone. [10 Jun 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag Security vendor PC Tools has released more research to back up its claim that Vista is far from immune to infection. In an attempt to reinforce its claim that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000, PC... [21 May 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News Speaking with silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia, Huang Liang, one of the competition hopefuls, based in China, said his application, Follow Me, would tag user feedback to points on Google Maps using the device's GPS chip, allowing users to "share... [20 May 2008]
Developers snub Vista for XP
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag A survey has found an overwhelming majority of developers writing applications for Windows are ignoring Vista in favour of XP or older versions of the Microsoft operating system. [19 May 2008]
Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag Software giant Microsoft has claimed user "complacency" is to blame for malware infections, and denied that its Vista operating system is less secure than Windows 2000. [16 May 2008]
Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag Software developers from NeoSmart, a not-for-profit technology-development organisation, claim they have successfully bypassed User Account Control, a security feature in Windows Vista. [29 Apr 2008]
Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by 30 June, if customers demand it stick around. [24 Apr 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee chair have both claimed Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML (OOXML) accredited as an... [21 Apr 2008]
Windows XP SP3 a go this month?
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be available by the end of April, according to a leaked Microsoft schedule. The alleged schedule for the release of XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) - obtained... [16 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its own weight, as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute, according to analyst firm Gartner. [11 Apr 2008]
SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle
News With the appointment of Leo Apotheker to the post of co-CEO, SAP is trying a tag-team, two-in-the-box CEO transition strategy it has used before. Apotheker's new role had largely been anticipated, following his appointment as deputy CEO more than... [04 Apr 2008]
Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a while to catch on, with just 6.3 per cent of enterprise users on the OS by the end of 2007. And according to research by Forrester Research, most... [02 Apr 2008]
Vista SP1 problems? Relax, Microsoft will offer some help
News Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag Vista users encountering problems when they upgrade to Service Pack 1 can relax: Microsoft is giving free support to those installing the service pack. The transition to the service pack has not been... [25 Mar 2008]
