Elizabeth Montalbano

Articles by Elizabeth Montalbano

Is Microsoft’s Kumo search engine better than Google, Yahoo?

Microsoft is expected to unveil its new version of Live Search next week. Some believe the new search engine won't have any new technology beyond what competitors Google and Yahoo already have

TechEd: Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 available in time for holidays

Microsoft will make Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 available to the general public in time for the busy holiday shopping season in the fourth quarter of the year

Microsoft’s controversial antipiracy tool resurfaces in Windows 7

Windows Genuine Advantage which checks computers to determine if the owner is using an original copy of Windows has been re-branded as Windows Activation Technology is Windows 7

Oracle agrees to buy Sun for US$7.4B

Weeks after a rumoured deal with IBM fell through, the maker of Java, Solaris and a raft of IT infrastructure products gets snapped up by the world's largest database provider

Microsoft opens up virtual desktop options

Licensing remains expensive and complicated for enterprises, but Microsoft is allowing new usage scenarios

Microsoft releases IE8

Microsoft claims Internet Explorer 8 is better at sniffing malware than rival browsers from Firefox, Chrome and Safari

Windows Mobile Marketplace dangles dollars at developers

Microsoft's Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Marketplace, is offering 70 per cent of sales for applications they develop and sell at the Apple App store rival

Microsoft plans low-cost server OS

Over the next two months, Microsoft intends to release 'something akin to' a netbook version of Windows, but for servers, not PCs

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