Channel Insider Staff

Since it first revealed a month ago that it was pulling a U-turn by releasing a new version of Internet Explorer independent of Longhorn, Microsoft has been unwilling to share many particulars about its forthcoming browser. Will Internet Explorer 7.0 have tabs? Will it comply with the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) 2.0 standard? Exactly how […]

Just one touch to connect field teams and assets to a company’s back office systems Espoo, Finland – The Nokia Mobile RFID Kit as part of the Nokia Field Force Solution has started shipping. The solution allows for easy management of tasks and service team workflow in the field. The Nokia Field Force Solution is […]

Novell’s Linux transformation is upon us. With the release of Open Enterprise Server, Novell has finally given its resellers the ultimate mix of NetWare and Linux they’ve been craving. Ever since Novell bought SuSE Linux, its channel partners have been drooling about the idea of selling Linux to their current customers, and—dare they dream it—of […]

Microsoft is continuing its crack-down on Windows pirates, and is modifying its product-activation policies to do so. Product activation, which Microsoft first introduced with Windows XP in 2001, is Microsoft’s way of requiring new Windows users to authenticate their copies of Windows. Microsoft has required users not covered by volume-license agreements to register their XP […]

Trolltech announced Monday that more than 50 companies are developing or shipping Linux-based devices using its Qtopia graphical application platform software, including more than 20 mobile phones. These successes signal “a surge in the market for handsets built on the popular open source Linux operating system,” the company says. “We think that 2005 is going […]

In a complete about-face, Microsoft Corp. has decided to deliver a new, standalone version of its Internet Explorer browser in order to stem potential customer defections due to security and feature concerns. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that Microsoft will deliver Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows […]

In a complete about-face, Microsoft has decided to deliver a new, standalone version of its Internet Explorer browser in order to stem potential customer defections due to security and feature concerns. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that Microsoft will deliver Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 for Windows […]

Microsoft is working to integrate its various identity-management wares into a unified platform, upon which it will encourage third-party developers to build, according to partner sources. It’s not clear whether Microsoft will use this week’s RSA conference in San Francisco to take the wraps off the new ID-management suite. Regardless, the company is moving full […]

Of all the execution problems contributing to the downfall of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Chair and CEO Carly Fiorina, the company’s promising services business was not one of them. Nevertheless, the growth of that rising star among its other businesses could be accelerated with the right emphasis, believe HP watchers. While HP after its merger with Compaq […]

Boutique memory firm OCZ Technology has shifted its Enhanced Bandwidth technology higher up the DDR-2 stepladder. OCZ’s new PC2-5400 DDR-2 modules will be available in a matched pair of modules totaling 1 gigabyte and 2 gigabytes, respectively. The first modules, PC2-5400 EB, will run at speeds of up to 667-MHz using CL 4-2-2-8 timings. Although […]

Microsoft Corp. is planning to make its currently voluntary Windows anti-piracy program mandatory some time in the second half of 2005, company officials said on Wednesday. So far, however, Microsoft has no timetable for broadening the program to other Microsoft products, such as Microsoft Office, server software or games, company officials said. But they did […]

Microsoft Corp. made it official Monday: It has no plans to appeal the antitrust sanctions levied against it by the European Commission. As a result, a stripped-down version of Windows, minus Windows Media Player and related files, is moving forward rapidly. At least some PC makers had an inkling about Microsoft’s intentions not to appeal […]