Microsoft changes Software Assurance licensing
Microsoft has made changes to its Software Assurance licensing program, including benefits and asking corporations to pay up for Windows Vista enterprise edition when the new operating system finally ships next year.
Software Assurance (SA) was launched in the US in 2001. Customers paid an annual fee of 25 to 29 percent of the outright licence for the right to upgrade over a two or three year period.
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Microsoft: No Office Software for Linux
Future of open-source software debated at LinuxWorld conference.
Microsoft will not release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, though the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the platform, a Microsoft representative says.
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Used Microsoft Software for Sale: Cheap!
When Microsoft software reseller
Disclic began selling secondhand Microsoft software last week, a number of Microsoft watchers proclaimed "They can't do that, can they?"
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15.11.2005 Google developing eavesdropping software
The first thing that came out of our mouths when we heard that Google is working on a system that listens to what's on your TV playing in the background, and then serves you relevant adverts, was "that's cool, but dangerous".
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3.9.2006 Tesco.com moves into software sales
Tesco has announced it is to move into the software market, with the launch of a range of low-cost office productivity applications set to challenge Microsoft, Symantec and other big-name incumbents.
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4.10.2006 Microsoft Robotics Software Out of Beta
Microsoft on Wednesday officially released its robot software development environment, aiming to put the company in the center of robotics by licensing out its operating system to hobbyists and companies alike.
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13.12.2006 MySpace plans parent software
MYSPACE plans to offer free parental notification software in a bid to appease government critics, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
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18.1.2007 Microsoft: The Advantages of using illegal software
Microsoft has committed large resources into educating people on the illegal use of software and how it harms the industry since the launch of Windows 95.
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22.2.2007 Microsoft tests pay-as-you-go Software
Microsoft has been quietly testing a new "pay-as-you-go" software rental service in South Africa, Mexico, and Romania. The service allows users to pay a monthly fee of around $15 for the use of Office 2003.
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23.2.2007 Genuine Software Initiative’s First Year and Beyond
This first year represents only the beginning of a marathon, and Microsoft is committed to this race, says Cori Hartje, Microsoft's anti-piracy director.
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2.4.2007 Microsoft targets more software pirates
Microsoft said Monday that it is taking action against groups that sold copies of Windows and Office discounted for academic use to regular users.
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3.4.2007 Top Security Software of 2007
2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers.
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30.12.2007 Google to Introduce Online Spreadsheet Software
Google Inc. will begin rolling out it's new online spreadsheet software today to a limited few in a move that sees the web maestros taking on Microsoft's Excel with a completely free alternative.
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6.6.2006 Software Notebook: How does Gates shape up as a seer?
Bill Gates has recently been prognosticating all over the place, offering his thoughts on the future of newspapers, television, advertising, communications, telephones and many other areas of business and technology.
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22.5.2007 Microsoft Releases Backup Software To Testers
Microsoft is rolling out the first release candidate for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, the vendor's flagship backup and recovery offering.
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4.10.2007 Is Microsoft working on software center for Windows?
Questions arise as to why Windows Vista and Windows 7 have renamed the "Add and Remove Programs" to "Programs and Features", alongside "Windows Updates".
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23.1.2009 Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit Beta Available
The resources designed for developers to have their products labeled with the Compatible with Windows 7 logo have evolved into Beta stage.
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29.5.2009 Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7
And that's exactly what the Free Software Foundation plans to do on Wednesday, staging a demonstration in Boston where it will encourage businesses to throw away Microsoft Windows in favor of free alternatives.
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27.8.2009 How to check software or hardware for Windows 7 compatibility
Microsoft has put up an extremely useful site that will allow you to check your software and hardware for Windows 7 compatibility.
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27.10.2009 Microsoft's OneCare antivirus software to go live Thursday
OneCare includes software for antivirus, PC tuning, and backup
Microsoft Corp. will complete its entry into the desktop security market next week with the general release of its Windows Live OneCare antivirus software.
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29.5.2006 Microsoft offers free small-business software
Microsoft Corp. has turned its accounting suite for small businesses into two separate offerings, one of which users can download for free starting Monday.
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30.10.2006 Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now.
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2.1.2007 Gorbachev to Gates: Show software 'pirate' mercy
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
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5.2.2007 Forced Software Upgrades Can Add Up for Vista Users
Windows users contemplating the cost of upgrading to Vista may need a fatter wallet than they thought.
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6.3.2007 Microsoft concedes: OneCare antivirus software 'not stellar'
Microsoft Corporation yesterday acknowledged poor test results of its OneCare antivirus software, but promised it would do better by paying more attention to malware actually in the wild. Earlier this month, AV Comparatives, a non-profit site that tests the most popular antivirus products, found OneCare detected 82.4% of nearly half a million pieces of malware.
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18.3.2007 Microsoft Researching Split-Screen Desktop Software
New technology from Microsoft Research India in Bangalore could end the waiting game in offices with limited computers. Researchers are developing software that splits a computer screen in two halves, each side with its own operating system, desktop, applications, cursor and keyboard.
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6.5.2007 New Windows Home Server Hardware and Software Partners
In his keynote address at the Microsoft® Windows® Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today demonstrated Windows Home Server and announced new hardware partners for the upcoming product, which include Gateway Inc., LaCie and Medion International.
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15.5.2007 Certified for Windows Vista Software Demo Video
Over the past few weeks, we have been talking about the Certified for Windows Vista Logo Program specifically related to devices. That’s only half the story.
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24.6.2007 BSA Raises the Stakes in Fight Against Software Piracy
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the global organization representing the nation’s leading software manufacturers, today announced that it will intensify efforts to battle software piracy in the workplace by increasing its current rewards incentive from $200,000 to $1 million from July to October 2007.
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3.7.2007 Microsoft plans big Vancouver, B.C., software center
Microsoft announced this morning that it will open a software development center this fall in the Vancouver, B.C., area, with room for hundreds of workers.
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6.7.2007New track-and-snap anti-theft software roams freely...and privately
A software project from U. of Washington and U. C.-San Diego researchers will make its way to ToorCon next week, and if your laptop should happen to
go to that conference without you, you could use this software to see that it makes it there...
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27.09.2008Liveblog relaunched: Apple iPhone Software 3.0 installation
We are currently downloading and installing the iPhone 3.0 software beta. The event will be covered via CoverItLive, a service that allows us to
communicate with members directly and post updates whenever one comes in. Whether you have an iPhone or not, we hope this Q&A of sorts will help
everyone to understand what Apple has added to this software update. iPhone Software 3.0 Q&A
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18.03.2009SnapStream Software Goes
High-Def
SnapStream announced on
Tuesday that it had reached
agreements with several HDTV
tuner card manufacturers to
bundle its BeyondTV personal
video recording (PVR) software
with their products. The cards
will ship the next version of
the software, due out by the
end of the year...
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26.10.2005UK government looking into open-source
According to an article by the BBC, the UK government will very soon be making a push for open-source software, mainly in the public services. The
government is considering open-source software as an alternative to commercial software, although the government said that only "when it delivers
best value for money" would it be adopted. Open-source software in itself is usually free, however, developing, maintaining and supporting it
wouldn't be, which is what the government is investigating at the moment The problem with proprietary software that the government is facing is
the contracts and licenses. Once the license expires, the government has to once again pay out. With open-source software, this could be prevented.
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26.02.2009Report: 1 in 3 Software
Installs Pirated
Software piracy worldwide
increased five percent last
year, costing the industry
some $34 billion during 2005,
research firm IDC reported on
Tuesday. According to the
study, one out of every three
copies of software in 2005 was
pirated...
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24.05.2006Adobe Acquires Photo Software
Firm
In a move to bolster its RAW
capabilities, Adobe on Monday
acquired the assets of
Pixmantec ApS, a Danish
software company that develops
the RawShooter product for
digital photography. The
technology will be integrated
into Adobe's new Lightroom
software, currently in beta...
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26.06.2006Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative Enters 2nd Year
Microsoft continues to press
forward with its Genuine
Software Initiative, saying it
is seeing progress in
combating pirate software.
However, it also warns that
the battle is far from over...
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30.03.2007Supreme Court Debates Patentability of Software
A seemingly simple case
regarding whether Microsoft
had the right to replicate
speech recognition software it
had licensed -- or rather,
thought it had licensed
-- from AT&T, and then
sell that software abroad as a
component of Windows Vista,
has exploded into what is now
extremely likely to become a
landmark case in US patent and
copyright law...
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22.02.2007Sony BMG accused of using pirated software
Small French software developer PointDev is suing Sony BMG saying it uses pirated copies of PointDev's Ideal Migration software...
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01.04.2008Report: Piracy Software Loses Continue to Rise
While the rate of piracy
worldwide has stayed fairly
stable, the cost of the
problem to software developers
continues to rise as the
market continues to grow, the
Business Software Alliance
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15.05.2007How much open source software are businesses really using?
Open source vendor OpenLogic is today kicking off a new industry initiative meant to help both users and software companies find out precisely what
kinds of open source software is being used -- and who is using it...
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12.12.2007Symantec Ups Software Renewal
Prices
Without any public
announcement, Symantec earlier
this week raised prices on its
renewal licenses for its
software by as much as a
third. The move could be an
attempt to maximize profits
one last time before Microsoft
enters the security software
space next year, analysts say...
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14.10.2005eBay and software group butt heads over stopping piracy
The SIIA wants eBay to squelch short-term software auctions. Since the start of its anti-counterfeiting initiative, eBay seems to be practicing some
other curbs on software banditry, to various degrees. If the two sides can't see eye to eye, will the battle actually land in court?..
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29.07.2008VMware to Offer Virtualization for Mac
Virtualization software
provider VMware has released a
public beta of its software
for Intel-based Macs,
code-named "Fusion."
Like Parallels, the software
enables users to run a host of
operating systems without the
need to reboot...
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23.12.2006Has software development spawned the sprawl of PC servers?
The software development process played a key role early on in spawning the sprawl of distributed Windows and Linux servers. But software developers
and the organizations they work for can now start to curtail these costs through the centralization of all or most computing tasks...
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27.02.2008Microsoft Debuts New Licensing Program to Enable Resellers to Help Enterprises That Are Victims of Counterfeit Software
Q&A: Cori Hartje, director of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative, discusses the Get Genuine Windows Agreement and other efforts the company has
put in place to help customers become properly licensed and acquire genuine Microsoft software...
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02.10.2007Best Buy Accused of Software
Piracy
System recovery software maker
Winternals said Wednesday that
it had been granted a
temporary restraining order
over alleged copyright
infringement by Best Buy and
its Geek Squad subsidiary.
Winternals claims the retailer
has been using pirated and
unlicensed copies of its
Windows recovery software...
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12.04.2006Software as Service Draws Interest
Software as a service is
forecast by Gartner to grow at
22.1 percent until 2011 for
the aggregate enterprise
application software markets--
more than double the 9 percent
growth rate expected in the
market as a whole.
"By 2011, 63 percent
of products in the software
infrastructure market and 56
percent in the software
application market will
support web services and web
2.0 technologies," Gartner
reckons.
"We limited the forecast
to the enterprise application
software market because SaaS
is a very hot topic in the
application markets and in
some markets, it's an
absolutely common way to
deploy software," says Sharon
Mertz, research director of
customer relationship
management at Gartner.
"SaaS is
more of an option now," she
says. "People are considering
it more often when they're
looking at different
application solutions.
looking at it as
their overall sourcing
strategy-- 'is this right for
me, or not?' It's just a
much more important element in
the market as time goes on. A
lot of the processes are more
streamlined. It's more
repeatable, software
isn't really specific to any
one company's business."..
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Sony, Corel Partner on
Software Tools
Sony's Media Software
division and Corel have joined
forces to bundle and co-market
their digital imaging and
video software solutions, the
companies announced Monday.
The idea is to offer a single
package for the holidays that
offers photo editing, video
production and DVD creation...
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ReplayTV to Refocus on DVR
Software
DVR maker ReplayTV said Monday
that it was exiting the
set-top DVR market, instead
planning to release a new
software-based DVR solution in
2006. Through a deal with TV
card manufacturer Hauppauge,
the software would be bundled
with the company's WinTV-PVR
cards in North America...
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