Microsoft kills third-party Windows client project
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A Windows version that independent developers called "Longhorn Reloaded" is now officially dead.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has lost another partner to market its single sign-on services after auction giant eBay (Quote, Chart) said it will no longer support Passport and its .
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US software maker Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting version 3.0.
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Microsoft will ship its next Windows client code-named Longhorn in 2006 as originally promised -- but without the next-generation file system known as WinFS.
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Redmond cracks down on Windows Update alternative Microsoft has forced the effective shut down of the AutoPatcher download service.â¦
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Following a three-year international investigation, Microsoft has reached agreement with a contractor that illegally produced and distributed counterfeit copies of the company's server software.
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Microsoft's Windows support forum found a throng of users yesterday complaining of their Windows Live OneCare subscriptions inexplicably showing up as having been terminated.
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After a long beta cycle, Microsoft has announced the availability of Host Integration Server (HIS) 2004, its legacy platform interoperability solution. The server includes support for XML Web services, Visual Studio .NET 2003, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. HIS 2004 allows developers to build XML Web service front ends for legacy line-of-business applications.
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Accidents will happen A faulty signature update from Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday flagged up Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) as infected with a low-risk virus, Huhk-C. As a result the core Windows component was quarantined or worse.â¦
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The software giant will stop offering security upgrades of its troubled Internet Explorer Web browser to users of older Windows operating systems.
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Microsoft Corp. has discontinued a line of digital photo software, saying that the functions can now be found in Windows Vista and other Microsoft software.
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A service designed to help Windows users download Microsoft's updates and install them in a faster manner was ordered shut down by Microsoft, in a cease and desist letter to the service's proprietors.
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In yet another blow to Intel's Itanium ambitions, Microsoft says its big-server version of Windows won't run on the new chip.
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As expected following news Monday that Microsoft would finally comply with the European Union's requirement that it make parts of its Windows source code available for distribution to developers, the Redmond company has officially dropped its appeal of the original 2004 antitrust ruling, as well as an appeal of the fine imposed in July 2006.
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How a simple bug betrays Microsoft's disdain for basic best practice principles
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Saying the functionality within the application is now available through other programs and within Windows Vista, Microsoft has decided to discontinue its Digital Image Suite Product, a notice on its Web site reads.
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Birmingham pulls plug on open-source desktop project. But Redmond says it didn't offer special Windows XP discounts.