Microsoft News
Turning Cellphones into Health Aids with Microsoft Money
Microsoft Research, the software company??™s laboratory, just awarded $1 million in grants to university researchers to develop the cellphone into a heathcare device. Ten institutions will split the money. Read more…
Microsoft 2Q Profit Tops Expectations
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit topped analysts' expectations and climbed 79 percent, buoyed by rising sales of Windows-based personal computers. Read more…
Cable Co. Empties 14,000 E-Mail Accounts
Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts. Read more…
Vista SP1 May Arrive Feb. 15
A rumor is spreading across the Web that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) may be scheduled to arrive on Feb. 15. Read more…
IE 7 To Be Pushed Out Via WSUS Auto-Update in February
Cecilia Cole, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) program manager, announced today on Microsoft's WSUS team blog that the service will force-push out Internet Explorer 7 to organizations with WSUS set to auto-approve updates. Read more…
Microsoft Releases Slew of Minor Vista Fixes
Microsoft has posted a number of Vista fixes to its download Web site in the past week. Read more…
Redmond | NewsMPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
News from Redmond: The Independent Voice of the Microsft IT Community.Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. Read more…
Microsoft To Expand Partners in Learning
Microsoft this week said it intends to redouble (or retriple) its commitment to education through its Partners in Learning program. Read more…
Yahoo Poised To Lay Off Hundreds
After seven months as chief executive, Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang has concluded hundreds of employees will have to be fired to help the slumping Internet icon recover from years of misguided management. Read more…
Microsoft Trying to Make Sense of Multicore
Software makers have been seeking new ways of thinking as Moore's law is quickly taking the chip world into a realm where there may be dozens or hundreds of processing units on a single chip. To help, Microsoft is setting up a joint research center in Barcelona, Spain, with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Read more…