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Microsoft yesterday made tab browsing available to the masses -- but not via its upcoming Internet Explorer 7 release. The software giant is offering the feature through its MSN Search Toolbar instead. The MSN Search Toolbar allows users of IE 5.01 and above to do what Opera, Mozilla Firefox and App...
AT&T and Microsoft announced a five-year alliance yesterday to deploy and deliver Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications services. The companies said they would focus on messaging, collaboration, media and business applications and expect the collaboration to drive development of new servic...
At the time of its passage in 2002, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the sweeping piece of legislation meant to make publicly traded companies more accountable, rolled through Congress. The reaction to the WorldCom and Enron accounting scandals became law so quickly, in fact, that it took time for both the com...
Microsoft yesterday announced that it is adopting industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology for the default file formats in the next version of Microsoft Office editions, currently code-named "Office 12." The new file formats, called Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, will become...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced that it has been testing a digital rights management (DRM) system called "sterile burning" and has already released 10 CD titles -- about 1 million discs -- with the copy protection. It did not say which ones they were. "Sterile burning" limits the number of co...
Ask any box office expert to name the holy trinity of movie attendance and they'll tell you: big screen, big sound and immediacy -- getting to see a movie when it's released. With improving home entertainment systems rapidly undermining the first two tenets of attendance, how long will it be before ...
In a move to compete with rival Google, Microsoft is planning to launch MSN Virtual Earth, a service designed to take local search to new depths, according to the software giant. Company chairman Bill Gates offered 3D conference attendees a sneak peak of his vision for Virtual Earth in Carlsbad, Cal...
Microsoft was awarded a patent this week for a "system and process for allowing a user to treat e-mail addresses as objects" -- a patent called "obvious and trivial" by one critic of the filing. "The technique of applying object properties and methods to various data fields in a software product has...
Microsoft has allegedly stolen technology developed by a Guatemalan inventor. The technology in question is designed to link spreadsheet data between two of Microsoft's programs. Plaintiff lawyers delivered opening statements in a jury trial that started on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Cent...
EMC this week launched its network storage virtualization product, Invista. Analysts said the technology validates the concept of intelligent storage area network (SAN) on switch platforms. Network storage virtualization provides for the creation of "virtual volumes" within the storage network, form...
Google rolled out yet another search product today, turning its focus back to corporate users again as it unveiled an enterprise version of its desktop search tool, one that features enhanced security and other features. Google Desktop Search for Enterprise creates a single interface from which a bu...
America Online today invited developers to build AOL Instant Messenger or its ICQ instant messaging service right into their games. The company released AOL Messaging Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the tools necessary to do so. AOL last week announced it would start offering free Web...
Microsoft's new desktop toolbar, released today in its final version, adds several new features, but is missing the tabbed browsing function for Internet Explorer that had been previewed in beta versions. MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search indexes all files on a hard drive so that users ...
On the heels of last week's announced intellectual property (IP), cross-licensing deal with Japanese PC and electronics giant Toshiba, Microsoft is reportedly seeking a similar sharing agreement with Hitachi. The software giant's effort to cross-license patented technologies from the Japanese compan...
In a landmark move to address customer interoperability needs, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Friday unveiled jointly developed specifications to enable Web single sign-on between the company's competing operating systems. The new specs, which are the first fruits of a 10-year technical collabora...
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