Microsoft has initiated 97 lawsuits throughout Europe and the Middle East during its eight-month investigation into fraudulent web pages, with another 32 criminal complaints filed in cooperation with local authorities, the company said Wednesday.
Microsoft's Windows Vista OS doesn't pose antitrust issues so far, according to the latest status report on Microsoft's compliance with the US antitrust settlement.
Last week's pact between Microsoft and Novell has led to widespread speculation over the long-term impact on the adoption of open-source software. Under the deal, the companies will work on ways to enable Novell's Linux distribution, Suse, and Microsoft's Windows operating system to work better together. They also reached a patent truce in which users of the other's software can't be sued for infringement, and Microsoft agreed not to sue noncommercial open-source developers. On Monday, Microsoft's Bill Hilf, general manager for platform strategy, spoke further about the deal with Jeremy Kirk, addressing how Microsoft views its intellectual property relative to Linux.
The forecast for data centers isn't good for the short term: they're going to get hotter and a lot more cramped, according to Gartner analysts.
In the next few weeks, Symantec will roll out products aimed at early adopters of the Windows Vista OS and 64-bit computing, while also expanding the capabilities of its backup software.
Microsoft is preparing 55 legal actions worldwide against sellers on auction sites who are hawking illegal copies of the company's software, the company said.
A security problem originally found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser has returned to haunt IE7, the new version of the browser launched two weeks ago, a security consultant said Monday.
A tricky malicious program has become more prevalent in spam, but experts don't know what its creators plan to do with it.
Microsoft on Friday defended the process for disclosing key security information about its upcoming Vista operating system after security vendors continued to complain it's too slow and not detailed enough.
Computer security analysts who fight spam face the same thankless task as goalkeepers: They don't get much credit for the unsolicited email they stop, only demerits for the ones that get through.
Cisco Systems has rolled out an online video publishing package for businesses, an offering in line with the company's strategy to move beyond its traditional focus on networks to make more of a splash in the unified communications market.
Alcatel has reached a preliminary agreement to buy Nortel Network's 3G mobile phone network business for $US320 million.
Samsung Electronics has started mass-producing 1 G-bit DDR (double data rate 2) DRAM memory chips using an advanced manufacturing process that allows it to make the chips smaller and at less cost.
Microsoft could face another lawsuit from a patent portfolio company over technology within its SQL Server database.
Sun Microsystems launched a portal site for its Java programming language on Tuesday as the company inches closer to making the Java code open source, a company executive said Tuesday.
