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News When questioned on whether Dell would promote Linux more heavily as an environmentally sustainable alternative to Microsoft Windows Vista, which has been criticised by Greenpeace and others for its reliance on powerful hardware and its influence...
[16 May 2008]
News 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. The claim that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000 was made last week by...
[16 May 2008]
News Microsoft has reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said yesterday. In recent months, the two sides have engaged in more serious talks and...
[16 May 2008]
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system from June. The deployment will cover 10,000 computers and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
[15 May 2008]
News Owners of some AMD-based computers are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3 has sent their systems into an endless reboot cycle. Microsoft said in a statement: "While the root cause of this issue is complex, it results from OEMs improperly...
[14 May 2008]
News Last October, Becta went to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with two Microsoft-related complaints, one regarding school subscription-licensing arrangements and the other regarding the lack of full interoperability between recent products, such as...
[14 May 2008]
News For those still using the last release of Office, Lefebvre said that, after several delays, Microsoft is on track to release by the end of June the converters that let that product work with the XML file formats that are part of Office 2007 for...
[13 May 2008]
News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.
[12 May 2008]
News The software is available for public download in US English on Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows but Sun warned it is not considered suitable for production use. The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released...
[09 May 2008]
News But he said the Windows Mobile platform of the BT ToGo devices means a user could - at least in theory - get their work email on the device as well. BT is talking convergence again - the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer...
[08 May 2008]
News Windows Live general manager Brian Hall reiterated that is Microsoft's approach in a speech to investors on Tuesday. Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search...
[08 May 2008]
News Microsoft has said it is resuming two major Windows updates that had been halted because of a conflict with one of its own software products. A week ago, Microsoft delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a problem that could...
[07 May 2008]
News Speaking to investors yesterday, Windows Live general manager Brian Hall tried to bring the focus back to what Microsoft is doing 'on its own', rather than what might have been. He said: "They are not gaining share today, for sure," before going on...
[07 May 2008]
News Microsoft has said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch. Microsoft finalised the code for Windows XP SP3 last week and had planned to make it broadly available starting yesterday.
[30 Apr 2008]
News 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. Windows Vista SP1 finally a go
[29 Apr 2008]
News Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace Another big launch that hasn't quite gone to plan is Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system which continues to make slow progress.silicon.com's Naked CIO was keen to talk about a change in attitude...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Facing a 30 June deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP, the world's largest computer makers are getting creative. Taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, HP and Dell both plan to...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Earlier on Thursday, Microsoft reported weak Windows sales for its fiscal third quarter ended in March and gave a forecast for the fourth quarter ending in June at the low end of Wall Street expectations, sending its shares down nearly five per cent.
[25 Apr 2008]
News 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]
News Apples sold 2.3 million Macs in the quarter, topping the two million to 2.2 million units forecast by five analysts, who saw sales being spurred by new designs, the halo effect from iPods and iPhones, and consumer complaints about Microsoft's...
[24 Apr 2008]
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