Oracle pays $8M to settle suit over training charges
Oracle has paid US$8 million to settle charges that from 1997 through 2003 it fraudulently billed the US federal government for training through the company's Oracle University program.
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Microsoft to simplify licensing lingo
Aiming to make the licensing terms for its products less complex, Microsoft plans to publish in July a shortened and simplified version of its "Product Use Rights" document.
New Microsoft Office release coming in 2006
Microsoft plans to release a new version of its Office productivity software next year, company Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Tuesday.
Microsoft unwraps Windows Mobile 5.0
Microsoft, as expected, unveiled a new version of its operating system for mobile devices that it says offers increased reliability, improved hardware support and a host of new features to both entertain users and make them more productive.
Microsoft recruits bloggers to preview Longhorn
Revving its Longhorn marketing engine, Microsoft is forming a team of bloggers who will get early access to prereleases of the operating system and will be asked to review the Windows XP successor.
Microsoft revenue falls short of expectations
Citing a mixed enterprise software environment, Microsoft on Thursday reported year-over-year increases in revenue and net income for its third fiscal quarter. But revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations.
Public Windows Server R2 beta slightly delayed
Microsoft has slightly delayed the public release of the second beta version of Windows Server 2003 R2. The test version will be available in the next two weeks, company officials said Tuesday.
Microsoft slams XP in call for Longhorn support
Microsoft on Tuesday badmouthed its own work on networking and hardware support in Windows XP in order to sell hardware makers on new technologies it has planned for Longhorn, the next version of Windows due late next year.
Microsoft aims "Metro" at Adobe
The next version of Windows will include a new document format, code-named "Metro," to print and share documents, Microsoft said Monday. Metro appears to rival Adobe Systems's PostScript and PDF (portable document format) technologies.
Samsung and Microsoft to "flash" hard drives
Samsung Electronics plans to show a prototype hard-disk drive that includes flash memory, promising lower power usage and less hard disk drive trouble for laptop users.
Microsoft delays most of its NGSCB security plan
Microsoft has postponed most of its Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security plan, company officials confirmed. Only a sliver of it will appear in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, due out late next year.
Ballmer, McNealy to give update on Sun-Microsoft pact
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer and Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy will host an event in mid-May to detail progress the companies have made since the signing of a 10-year collaboration agreement last year.
Microsoft to ship 32-bit version of Longhorn server
Microsoft plans to ship 32-bit, x64 and Itanium versions of its Longhorn server operating system, company executives said Wednesday.
Ballmer: We want to help you manage all of your IT
Microsoft wants to help enterprises manage their entire IT environments, not just Windows systems, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer told attendees at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Microsoft preparing Windows XP thin clients
Microsoft is working on two thin client versions of Windows XP to offer a lower cost operating system alternative for users of server-centric computing, people familiar with the company's plans said.