Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec

    Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker… Read more

  • LSB Developer Network: An MSDN for Linux

    LSB Developer Network: An MSDN for Linux

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    One major advantage Microsoft developers have over their Linux counterparts is that they have access to MSDN (Microsoft Software Developer Network), a magnificent online developer resource. Linux has had nothing to compare. Until now. The FSG (Free Standards Group), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open-source software standards, announced Oct. 17 that it… Read more

  • Microsoft Caves on Vista Security

    Microsoft Caves on Vista Security

    Larry Seltzer

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    Security is security, but business is business I guess. It wasn’t worth it to Microsoft to stick to its positions on PatchGuard and the Windows Security Center. The details aren’t in yet, but based on Microsoft’s vague initial statements it appears that the company has essentially acceded to Symantec’s position on PatchGuard and is trying… Read more

  • What if Microsoft Held a Vista Party and Nobody Came?

    What if Microsoft Held a Vista Party and Nobody Came?

    David Morgenstern

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    The countdown for the release of Windows Vista keeps ticking, and the expectations—from outward appearances—seem to be growing. The signs are that Microsoft and Vista very early adopters expect some kind of community groundswell to take place around the launch and maybe even before. But based on reader reaction, the event planners should be able… Read more

  • Microsoft, Intel Host 23-City Vista Prep Road Show

    Microsoft, Intel Host 23-City Vista Prep Road Show

    John Hazard

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    Microsoft and Intel are hitting the road to jointly promote Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Office 2007 and Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor to system builders. The vendors on Oct. 12 announced Ready2Rock, a 23-city series of daylong, hands-on events designed to prepare the system builder channel for the new capabilities and opportunities presented by Microsoft’s… Read more

  • Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache

    Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Port80 Software, a Microsoft partner, has released a new survey showing that the Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 Web server has overtaken the Apache open-source Web server among Fortune 1000 Web sites. In the survey released on Oct. 11, Port80 Software said IIS 6 more than doubled its market share over the last year, to… Read more