Latest Microsoft news.
Microsoft to purchase online e-mail security provider, 07/25/05
Microsoft last week announced its intent to acquire FrontBridge Technologies, a provider of online service for securing and archiving e-mail.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072505-frontbridge.html?nl
Microsoft takes on Google with Virtual Earth, 07/25/05
Microsoft Monday is planning the release of a new online local search product that goes head to head with a similar offering from rival Google.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072505-microsoft-google.html?nl
Court finds Microsoft infringed AT&T patent, 07/22/05
Plus: WilTel CEO talks strategy; VoIP still lags behind in quality, survey says
http://www.networkworld.com/edge/columnists/2005/0718edgecol2.html?nl
Microsoft’s ‘Longhorn’ becomes Windows Vista, 07/22/05
Microsoft Friday announced the official name for its operating system, previously known under the code name “Longhorn.” The operating system, due out in 2006, will now be known as Windows Vista with the tag line, “Bringing clarity to your world.”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072205-vista.html?nl
Microsoft Q4 growth stemmed from servers, Xbox, 07/21/05
Microsoft posted solid growth for its fiscal fourth quarter 2005, highlighted by sales of server software. Revenue for the software maker’s quarter ended June 30 was $10.2 billion, a 9% increase over the same period last year, when Microsoft earned $9 …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072105-microsoft-earnings.html?nl
Microsoft to acquire FrontBridge for e-mail security, 07/20/05
Microsoft Wednesday announced its intent to acquire FrontBridge Technologies, a provider of online service for securing and archiving e-mail.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072005-frontbridge.html?nl
Layer8: Gates: Why aren’t kids into IT?, 07/20/05
Microsoft’s holding its annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit this week, (“Making tomorrow’s Microsoft minions – today!”) and Bill Gates kicked it off wondering why the heck more kids don’t want…
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/009544.html?nl
Layer8: Microsoft battles Google over employee, 07/20/05
Kai-Fu Lee is the hottest IT employee in the world right now, as Microsoft and Google engage in a Godzilla vs. Mothra battle for his services. Yesterday Lee punched in…
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/009545.html?nl
Microsoft sues Google, former employee over hiring, 07/19/05
Microsoft stepped its rivalry with Google up a notch Tuesday, filing a lawsuit against the search company over Google’s hiring of a former Microsoft employee.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071905-google-microsoft.html?nl
Layer8: Martha to marry Microsoftie?, 07/19/05
Here at the Layer 8 newsroom (also known as our desk) we scour the Web for you. We check the Times, the wires and even the boring ‘ol Wall Street…
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/009536.html?nl
Opinion: Sex, lies and source code, 07/25/05
It seems like being “economical with the truth” is all the rage this summer.
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/072505backspin.html?nl
