Latest Microsoft news.
Microsoft scraps September security update, 09/09/05
Microsoft has decided not to go ahead with its monthly security update after encountering an unspecified quality issue with the software patch it had planned to release next Tuesday.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090905-microsoft-security.html?nl
Microsoft tries, and fails, to recruit open-source guru, 09/09/05
Microsoft may be softening its rhetoric against Linux and open-source software, but that doesn’t mean the company is ever going to be able to hire Eric Raymond. Earlier this week, a recruiter from the software giant tried to lure Raymond, one of the …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090905-microsoft-open.html?nl
Microsoft targets Google with developer platform, 09/08/05
Microsoft next week will try to gain ground on competitors Google and Yahoo by unveiling a new Web development platform on which developers can add new search, mapping and instant-messaging features to online products from the MSN division.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090805-microsoft-web-development.html?nl
Next Google-Microsoft ruling expected Tuesday, 09/08/05
By next Tuesday, Kai-Fu Lee should have a clearer idea of what he can and cannot do at his new job with Google over the next few months. That’s when a court in Washington state will rule on whether to extend a court order forbidding Lee from working …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090805-google-microsoft-lee.html?nl
Weblog: Katrina survivors must use IE to file for aid, 09/08/05
This is just adding insult to injury. Haven’t these people been through enough? Anyone using a non-Windows OS or browser can’t file for aid online, but can dial up the…
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/009930.html?nl
Only one patch due in Microsoft’s monthly security fix, 09/08/05
September is starting to look like a quiet month for Microsoft’s security response team. The software vendor said Thursday that its monthly release of security fixes, expected next Tuesday, will cover only one issue: an unidentified flaw in the …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090805-microsoft-patch.html?nl
Ballmer: Microsoft to offer hosted CRM to midmarket, 09/07/05
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Wednesday outlined some of the products and services Microsoft has come up with to solve the problems of midmarket customers, including a hosted customer relationship management service that the company will unveil within …
http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/news/2005/090705-microsoft-crm.html?nl
Katrina survivors need IE to file for aid, 09/07/05
Hurricane Katrina survivors looking to apply online to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance better make sure they’re running Microsoft’s Windows operating system and using Internet Explorer Version 6 or higher. IE 6 is required for …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090705-katrina-ie.html?nl
Weblog: MS exec: Redmond incompetent in China, 09/07/05
Forget “Days of Our Lives,” we’re addicted to this Google/Microsoft Kai-Fu-Lee street fight now unfolding in a Seattle court. Why isn’t this on Court TV? When we last left…
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/009922.html?nl
Microsoft renames business app project, targets mid-market, 09/07/05
Microsoft Wednesday renamed its suite of next-generation business applications for the mid-market and reiterated its plans to tie them together with Office on the front end and bundles of infrastructure software on the back end.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090705-microsoft-dynamics.html?nl
Weblog: MS, Google fight heats up, 09/06/05
This whole Microsoft-Google fight over disputed employee Kai Fu-Lee is getting awesome. Long scuffle short: Lee worked for Microsoft on projects related to expanding in China. Google snatched Lee away…
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/009907.html?nl
Weblog: Longhorn optimized for Itanium, 09/06/05
Microsoft says given feedback from users of its beta 1 of Longhorn Server, due to ship in 2007, that the Intel Itanium-based version of the server will be optimized for databases, and customized and line-of-business applications. Microsoft says that …
