Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month.
“We will start to show you the next version of the search,” Chairman Bill Gates said in comments to reporters in Japan on [...]
When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. So far I have only [...]
Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting [...]
Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments.
The company announced on January 20 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.
(Microsoft was planning on making the announcement at 12:01 a.m. on January 21, [...]
After saying it planned to make its latest test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers only, Microsoft has done an about-face and made the code available to the public.
Late in the day on January 11, Microsoft posted the new Vista SP1 Release Candidate [...]
Microsoft says users are responsible for the modifications that generated claims of unauthorized patch installs last week. The software giant claims that they have made no changes that would alter the Windows Vista update settings.
Reacting to reports that first surfaced last Friday, a program manager for Windows Update said today that an investigation had turned [...]
