IE7 goes into the ditch on some PCs
Some users aren't able to use Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) after installing this month's six-bug patch, the Microsoft security team acknowledged late Wednesday as it published a work-around for the problem.
Some users aren't able to use Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) after installing this month's six-bug patch, the Microsoft security team acknowledged late Wednesday as it published a work-around for the problem.
In a speech Tuesday at WinHEC 2007 in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates confirmed that users will be able to retrofit older PCs themselves with Windows Home Server (WHS) when it ships later this year.
Microsoft rattled its sabre this weekend, using Fortune magazine to claim that open-source software collectively violates more than 200 of its patents.
Microsoft responded Monday to discussion of Windows Vista's over-hearty battery appetite by acknowledging that the new operating system's fancy graphics use more power. But it downplayed the impact of the UI's power needs.
Apple's for-pay video download business on iTunes and its Apple TV set-top box are "dead ends," a researcher said Monday, because U.S. television and cable networks will quickly shift their creative products to free ad-supported streaming.
Microsoft's long-expected online backup service, once dubbed Live Drive, briefly went functional this weekend, giving users a sneak peek at some of the service's planned features before it was pulled.
OpenOffice.org Monday called Microsoft's assertion that its open-source application suite violates 45 of its patents "a desperate act."
Windows XP systems are still locking up during patch update attempts -- even after users deployed the fix suggested by Microsoft.
Apple Thursday updated Darwin Streaming Server, an open-source version of the company's QuickTime for-pay streaming server software, to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities.
A month after Microsoft pushed back the beta release of the Windows Server virtualisation software, code-named Viridian, the company has dropped several key features to make its final deadline.
On the first stop of a Chinese business delegation's U.S. spending spree, Lenovo Group Wednesday penned a deal to buy more than $US1 billion in software from Microsoft.
Microsoft has released what it called the "final" Vista fix for a problem that iPod owners had been having with the new operating system since its Jan. 30 launch.
The portion of people surfing the Web using a Mac has doubled in the past eight months, an Internet metrics analyst said Tuesday, and represents an audience that can't be ignored by Web application developers.
Sun Microsystems has assigned company developers to work on a Mac OS X version of the open-source OpenOffice.org productivity suite.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs fired back at environmentalists, saying the company leads rivals such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard in eliminating toxic chemicals and ramping up recycling plans.
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