Emergence Day Revealed: Critically Acclaimed Xbox 360 Title “Gears of War” to Surface Nov. 12, 2006
Countdown begins for the most anticipated game of 2006 as gamers eagerly await the flagship title from Microsoft Game Studios and Epic Games.microsoft - comments - 3.8.2006
Seven: One Windows, One Role
Microsoft's "out-of-box experience" priority means no roles for Windows 7. windows - comments - 8.9.2008
EU wants other browsers in Windows
Microsoft’s plans for Windows 7 to allow users to disable Internet Explorer don’t go far enough, the EU is thinking. windows - comments - 1.6.2009
EU: Microsoft's Behavior 'Unacceptable'
European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes hit out at Microsoft in comments to European parliamentarians today, saying it is "unacceptable" that the company continues to gain market share using tactics that were outlawed in the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against the software vendor.microsoft - comments - 22.3.2007
EU blow to Microsoft on Windows
Microsoft will be forced to hand over to rivals what the group claims is sensitive and valuable technical information about its Windows operating system for next to no compensation, according to a confidential document seen by the Financial Times.windows - comments - 6.4.2007
EU cautioned on any Microsoft break-up
A former U.S. justice official who tried to break up Microsoft seven years ago has urged the European Commission to tread cautiously if it tries to do the same.microsoft - comments - 9.5.2007
No Windows 7 upgrade option in the EU
Today Microsoft announced the pricing of Windows 7. As previously reported on Neowin, the EU will be getting a version that will not contain IE and because of this Microsoft will be offering no upgrade option in the EU.windows - comments - 25.6.2009
Microsoft to contest "unjustified" EU move
Microsoft said on Thursday it would contest what it called an unjustified European Commission decision to impose backdated daily fines if it fails to comply with European Union antitrust sanctions.
The U.S. software giant said it had obeyed the Commission's landmark March 2004 decision ordering it to change its business practices but the EU executive kept making new demands and the latest one went beyond the European regulator's powers.
microsoft - comments - 23.12.2005
Microsoft's EU fight seen as Vista threat
Microsoft's antitrust battle in Europe threatens to snarl the release of the next version of Windows and has turned into a big distraction for executives that could spur more lawsuits, analysts and investors say. microsoft - comments -
Microsoft files new antitrust documents with EU
Microsoft Corp. filed revised documents with the European Commission on Thursday aimed at complying with a landmark antitrust decision from 2004, the European Commission said.microsoft - comments - 24.11.2006
EU Regulators, Opera on Windows 7 E plan
At the end of the day Microsoft acknowledged its plan to ship a browser-less version of Windows 7 in the European Union to attempt to appease antitrust regulators, those same regulators and Opera Software weighed in on Redmond’s plan.common - comments - 12.6.2009
Microsoft Asks US Courts to Intervene in EU Case
Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it had asked U.S. Federal courts to force IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp. and Novell Inc. to give it documents in its battle against the European Commission.microsoft - comments - 6.3.2006
Microsoft tells EU it will ship Windows Vista
Software giant Microsoft told the European Commission it will not delay shipping its new Windows operating system, Vista, to Europe, after fears that it might do so because of its regulatory disputes there.windows - comments - 13.10.2006
EU Threatens Microsoft With New $446 Million Fine
In what was probably an inevitable ultimatum, the only question surrounding which may have been when it would come, the European Commission today publicly issued a warning that Microsoft must turn over what it describes as the “complete documentation” regarding interoperability protocols for Windows, or else face a fine retroactive to last July totaling €348 million (USD$445.7 million), plus €3 million per day thereafter for continued non-compliance.microsoft - comments - 16.11.2006
Microsoft Gambles One EU Customer Will Make its Case
It has been "Issues Week" all week for Microsoft, and Thursday, the company took on the dreaded interoperability issue. But its choice of message was called into question a bit yesterday after Microsoft boasted of having signed up its first official customer for its communications and interoperability IP licenses: Quest Software, the manufacturer of the Toad data modeling system.microsoft - comments - 10.3.2007
Microsoft Says EU Version Of Windows Vista A Dud
Company officials say no PC manufacturers have chosen to license the special editions of its operating systems, which are available only in Europe, that lack the Windows Media Player media playback software.microsoft - comments - 21.5.2007
EU warns Microsoft to limit Windows Vista features
The European Union's top competition regulator has warned Microsoft Corp it won't be allowed to sell its new Vista operating system in Europe if it comes pre-loaded with certain features, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.windows - comments - 29.3.2006
EU Commission: Intel fined record $1.45 billion
The European Commission on Wednesday fined Intel a record €1.06 billion, or about $1.446 billion, for abusing its dominance in the computer chip market to exclude longtime rival AMD.common - comments - 13.5.2009
Win 7 Anytime Upgrade prices announced, EU & UK ripped off
Microsoft today unveiled pricing for Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU) and the Windows 7 Family Pack.windows - comments - 31.7.2009
Microsoft Announces Game for Nintendo DS
Although we probably wont ever be seeing Mario on the Xbox, one of Microsofts latest franchises will be hitting a Nintendo system.Microsoft announced at Comic Con that Viva Piñata is headed to the Nintendo DS. The title will be based off the current title for Xbox 360 (also slated for the PC later this year) rather than the Party Animals mini-games package. The Microsoft-owned game developer studio Rare will be handling the development of this title in-house.
Rare describes the upcoming title in a news update on its website, śThis is a full-size Viva Piñata game in your pocket, featuring not only the entire range of paper beasts from the Xbox 360 title but also a few new ones thrown in to spice things up for those familiar with the established cast.ť..
winbeta.org - 31.07.2007
Microsofts open source chief takes on Windows server marketing
The leader of Microsofts integration efforts around open source software and its proprietary technologies is expanding his role by adding the title "general manager of Windows server marketing," further indication that Microsoft plans to crank up the volume on its Windows/Linux story.Bill Hilf, who is the director of Microsofts Open Source Lab, and whose former title was general manger of platform strategy, added his new responsibilities in the past month, according to a Microsoft spokesman. Hilfs new title is general manager of Windows server marketing and platform strategy. Hilf is not eliminating any of the current responsibilities under his former title, which include coordinating projects across Microsoft platforms and long-term strategic planning in the server and tools division.
śThis expanded role is a natural evolution of the work Bill has led at Microsoft over the past four years “ working together with Microsoft technology-development teams and the open source community to build interoperable solutions on top of the Windows Platform, and continuing the discussion around Linux and Windows,ť a company representative said.
winbeta.org - 09.10.2007
Madonna Leaves Record Industry in $120 Million Deal
Madonna has become the latest artist to buck the record industry by signing a $120 million record deal with concert promoter Live Nation...betanews.com - 11.10.2007
At Yahoo, it pays to be paranoid
All employees at Yahoo are encouraged to be at least a little paranoid. Meet the man who was the first to put it in a job title.To Arturo Bejar, the name of Yahoo's security team made perfect sense when he came up with it eight years ago: the "Paranoids." Bejar, whose own title is "Chief Paranoid Yahoo," wanted his department's moniker to be disarming and give the security role a friendly face.
"We try to be somewhat lighthearted about security," he said. "As important as it is, I also think it helps adoption if it is not too serious."
The unconventional naming befits a company that was once an icon of dot-com counterculture, where its co-founders still carry the title of "Chief Yahoo". That informality--or at least the perception of it--is particularly important to Yahoo, whose goal is to be the most consumer-friendly of all the companies at the forefront of creating security standards in the Digital Age.
winbeta.org - 27.06.2007
Microsoft to Acquire Epic Games?
GamePro magazine is making a bold prediction: Microsoft will spend $1 billion this summer to acquire independent developer Epic Games.In the latest issue of the magazine, according to a WRAL.com report, GamePro Assistant Editor Travis Moses wrote, "Microsoft will buy Epic Games for $1 billion." Epic, the company behind the award-winning Gears of War and Unreal Tournament III, is considered especially attractive because of their Unreal engine technology, which is used by numerous other developers for game development on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
winbeta.org - 18.02.2008
Google: Moving to Unicode 5.1
Mark Davis: Google has just begun supporting Unicode 5.1, less than one month after it was released. It's now available in search, so people speaking languages such as Malayalam can now search for words containing the new characters in Unicode 5.1.Web pages can use a variety of different character encodings, like ASCII, Latin-1, or Windows 1252, or Unicode. Most encodings can only represent a few languages, but Unicode will handle anything from Chinese to French to Arabic. We have long used Unicode as the internal format for all the text we search: any other encoding is first converted to Unicode for processing. So we regularly update to each new version of Unicode (and relevant related standards like CLDR and BCP 47) to make sure we are current. Thus Unicode plays a key role in our mission.
winbeta.org - 06.05.2008
'Transformers' Sets Hi-Def Sales Record
Although the reviews were lackluster, Michael Bay's Transformers has become the fastest selling title on HD DVD. More than 100,000 copies of the movie sold in the first day and over 190,000 in the first week, setting a record that beat every title on both HD DVD and rival format Blu-ray...betanews.com - 23.10.2007
MS Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 Download Link and Screenshot Gallery
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..jcxp.net - 05.09.2009
id Software announces... Doom 4
id Software will be producing another Doom title after all. After last year's unveiling of Rage, id's next-generation title based on entirely new intellectual property, the game development studio has announced Doom 4. Production on the next installment in the Doom series has already begun, and id says it is "expanding its internal team and is currently hiring to work on this highly anticipated title."winbeta.org - 08.05.2008
HD DVD User Claims to Have Bypassed AACS Encryption
In a separate matter perhaps inspired by, but otherwise unrelated to, last December's discovery of how a software-based HD DVD player may have left title keys exposed, giving users access to one of the key components necessary for them to back up their content onto separate discs, another user has posted the source code that may enable HD DVD users to determine the title keys for themselves...betanews.com - 14.02.2007
Firefox exec: we don't want to be bundled with Windows
Firefox architect Mike Connor says he doesn't want the browser bundled with Windows, whilst launching a scathing attack on rival Opera's tactics.Microsoft could be forced to bundle rival browsers with Windows, after the EU ruled the company had abused its monopoly by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. A charge brought before the watchdog by browser minnow Opera.
winbeta.org - 10.02.2009
Google Apps goes global
Google is announcing a number of updates for Google Apps, our customizable package of hosted communication and collaboration applications for businesses, schools, and other organizations. Several features and components previously available only to English users and administrators of Google Apps are now available in other languages, too. Here's a quick rundown of what's new for non-English speakers:- Google
Apps Premier Edition
for companies and
organizations needing an
uptime guarantee for email
service, 10 gigabytes of email
storage per user, integration APIs
and multi-lingual telephone
support for critical issues
(support experts are available
in English, French, Italian,
German, Spanish and Dutch).
Also, for a limited time, you
can try Premier Edition for
free for 30 days.
- Google Apps Partner Edition
for ISPs and portals that want
to offer Gmail and other
applications to their
subscribers.
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which lets Google Apps users create and collaborate in real time, right from their browsers.
- The Start Page, a central place for Google Apps users to preview their inboxes, calendars and documents, access their organizations' essential content, and search the web.
- A more user-friendly control panel interface for Google Apps administrators.
- Mail migration tools for administrators who want to switch from a different email system (available with Premier and Education Editions only).
winbeta.org - 01.08.2007
Microsoft Appoints John Vassallo to Vice President, EU Affairs
Microsoft Corp. today announced the appointment of John Vassallo as Vice President, EU Affairs. Vassallo joins Microsoft from General Electric, where he served as Senior Counsel & Director of European Affairs.In this new Microsoft position, Vassallo, who will also serve as Associate General Counsel for the company, will be responsible for leading the company's EU Corporate Affairs and Regulatory team. The creation of this role reflects the increasing importance of Microsoft's engagement with the European Union across a wide range of policy areas.
"I am very excited to join Microsoft," said Vassallo, who officially begins in his new role July 1. "The company is a world leader in software technology and investing a lot to advance its relations across Europe. I look forward to helping lead the company in this area and strengthening the ongoing constructive dialogue with the EU policy and regulatory community."
winbeta.org - 30.05.2008
Report: Microsoft, EU in talks over antitrust issues
Microsoft has had "preliminary talks" with European Union officials with the hopes of settling several regulatory probes, according to a Bloomberg report.According to the report, Microsoft is aiming to settle the matters before EU Competition Commissioner Nellie Kroes steps down at the end of the year. One issue is the EU's well-publicized concern over the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows, while the other pertains to Office software, Bloomberg said.
winbeta.org - 08.07.2009
Madonna April 30 Performance Available for Free on MSN
Madonna’s exclusive performance at New York City’s famed Roseland Ballroom will be available live to millions of fans via an online broadcast at http://music.msn.com/madonna, it was confirmed today by MSN and Control Room, which announced that the show will stream live Wednesday evening, April 30, at 10 p.m. EDT in the United States and will be available on demand to international audiences on May 15. Along with some past hits, Madonna will be debuting several new songs including her 37th No. 1 smash single “Four Minutes” from her upcoming CD Hard Candy, which is scheduled to be released on April 28. The Control Room-produced show will also include never-before-seen rehearsal footage, a pre-recorded interview with Madonna and her full performance, giving fans around the globe unprecedented access to one of the biggest music events of 2008 by simply logging on to MSN Music In Concert.Control Room, the leading producer and distributor of world-class entertainment content, delivers nearly 40 live music shows per year to the MSN Music In Concert series. Past performances have included international superstars such as Rihanna, Jay-Z, Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow and many more. Coming in May, fans can watch performances by Jack Johnson and Daughtry. The Music In Concert series http://music.msn.com/inconcert, which is available in 42 countries and 21 languages through the international MSN network, gives music fans worldwide the chance to see live music performances from their favorite artists.
neowin.net - 30.04.2008
Wii Sports dominates Bafta awards
Nintendo's Wii Sports has swept the board at the 2007 British Academy Video Games Awards in London.The energetic title took home awards in categories such as gameplay, strategy and simulation, innovation and sports.
The game allows players to compete in onscreen sporting events using the Wii's controller as a tennis racquet, golf club or even bowling ball.
However, the title did not manage to take the coveted best game award which went to Xbox title Bioshock.
The first-person shooter, released in August, is set in an underwater world populated by mutants and mechanical drones. It received acclaim from gamers and the Bafta judges.
winbeta.org - 24.10.2007
Next Microsoft Office to make PDC cameo
Windows 7 and Windows Cloud may be the stars of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, but the next version of Office has also landed a role in the production.Office 14, as the product is code-named, will be discussed at next week's event, with attendees likely to get a peek at a couple of its features, according to sources. Unlike Windows 7, though, folks shouldn't expect to leave Los Angeles with a copy of their own.
winbeta.org - 21.10.2008
Steve Jobs praises a retiring Bill Gates
While most of Steve Jobs' energy on Tuesday was spent touting the new MacBook Air, the Apple chief did take some time to praise longtime rival Bill Gates, who plans to stop working full-time at Microsoft at the end of June."Bill's retiring from Microsoft is a big deal," Jobs told the New York Times . "It's a significant event, and I think he should be honored for the contributions he's made."
I'm guessing Jobs probably won't issue a Bill Gates edition iPod, but the two have been making nice in public, including a rare joint appearance at last year's D: All Things Digital conference.
winbeta.org - 17.01.2008
Already outdated, Treo Pro hits March 15
betanews.com - 04.03.2009CableCard Diagnostics Comes to Windows Media Center at EHX
Integrators at the Electronic House Expo (March 11-14, Orlando, Fla.) will get
the first glimpse of a new utility that helps provision CableCard tuners for Windows Media Center.
Prepared for the Media Center Integrator Alliance, the new software tool helps tackle the age-old pain point of Windows Media Center: that darn
CableCard thing.
winbeta.org - 07.03.2009