The chairman of Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, said at a news-conference that the world’s largest maker of software is on-track to release its next-generation operating system (OS) sometime in 2009. Certain indirect claims of Microsoft confirm this timeframe, which was already once named as the deadline for what is known as Windows 7, but then […]
The approaching death of Windows XP may upset you, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Microsoft Corp.’s product life-cycle guidelines have foretold the fate of XP since 2001. In fact, Microsoft has been killing off one version of a product as it is replaced with another for years now. But this time around, the […]
San Francisco (IDGNS) - The company stressed that SP1, “is not a delivery vehicle for new features,” said David Zipkin, senior product manager for Microsoft. SP1 will include OS updates strictly to fix bugs and enhance the performance, reliability, and application compatibility of Vista, he said. Vista SP1 will not break any applications already […]
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday released the two Windows Vista updates that had leaked to the Internet at the end of July, but won’t say when it will begin pushing them to users via Windows Update. Pegged as performance and reliability packs, the pair install a long list of non-security bug fixes, among them speed improvements to […]
Microsoft could pull the trigger on putting out a beta of the first service pack for Windows Vista any day with a final release by November, sources close to the company said. Microsoft has been mum about exactly what will be included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a rollup of updates for the OS, […]
Worldwide PC shipments are expected to increase by 11 per cent this year spurred by uptake in emerging markets rather than the launch of Microsoft’s Vista operating system, according to research.
PC sales are projected to total 257.1 million units in 2007, an 11.1 per cent growth on from 2006 shipments of 231.5million units, but the […]
Microsoft has just patched another critical hole in Vista that it knew about as long ago as last Christmas. The delay was similar to its lag in patching the serious (and heavily targeted) animated-cursor flaw I told you about last month.
The new problem involves the way that the OS’s Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) handles error […]
Microsoft said Thursday that it earned $4.93 billion, or 50 cents per share, on revenue of $14.40 billion for the three months ended March 31. That compares with net income of $2.98 billion, or 29 cents per share, on revenue of $10.9 billion for the same quarter a year earlier.
The quarter’s earnings were boosted by […]