Microsoft and Apple look to be battling over the right to the iPod technology. Apple filed the patents for its incredibly successful iPod back in October of 2002. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office booted the patent papers last month.
Microsoft Messenger For Mac: New & Improved
The Redmond based software monolith, Microsoft, announced they are expanding their MAC instant messaging software. The new tab viewing display will allow users to access both corporate and personal Messenger accounts and set a unique status for each user.
Microsoft Serves Up Three Critical Patches
Patch Tuesday brings forth a sextet of security bulletins from our friends in Redmond, and users will want to get them in place quickly.
Kai-Fu Lee Three Steps Ahead Of Microsoft
More details of Dr. Lee’s employment contract have come to light, detailing an arrangement that benefits him no matter how the non-compete case ends.
Microsoft Stages COO: Kevin Turner
Microsoft announced on Thursday their newest hire, Kevin Turner as the new chief operating officer. Turner will be in charge of strategic and operational leadership of sales, marketing and service professionals as well as the company’s fulfillment and IT operations.
Microsoft Initiates Start.Com
The preview release of the personalized homepage site makes big-time use of remote scripting…I mean Ajax and DHTML.
Microsoft Speech Server Announces Itself
The product has been built on Windows and .Net; a future version of Exchange will be speech enabled.
Microsoft CRM for Large Corporations Security
Microsoft Business Solutions CRM proved to be a reliable solution in the whole spectrum of industries and market niches: transportation & logistics, education, recruiting & placement, supply chain management, pharmaceutical, oil & gas, aerospace & defense, manufacturing, wholesale & retail.
Google, Microsoft To Compete In Golden Penguin Bowl at LinuxWorld
In a move that can show off each competitor’s knowledge of open-source computing, both Microsoft and Google will be participating in the Golden Penguin Bowl quiz session at the upcoming LinuxWorld conference, which is scheduled for August 8-11 in San Fransisco.
Hackers Saw Plank, Microsoft Ship Drops
Within hours of the release of Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), hackers decided to flip off Microsoft with a single, simple line of javascript that promptly turned off the WGA and turned on laughter in hacker circles around the globe.