Microsoft announced that it has struck a deal that will have it share a portion of the sales of the upcoming Zune media player with Universal Music Group. Microsoft said that it agreed to the deal with thoughts about marketing. They are interested in allowing song sharing and other promotions. Microsoft was also concerned about [...]

Microsoft will be making available an integrated VoIP, email, video conferencing, and instant messaging package early next year. It’s your one stop communication solution, so to speak. The package will integrate into the Windows Operating System, as well as some desktop and server software. Expect it to offer integration into Outlook and Internet Explorer, among [...]

Despite some skepticism that Windows Vista would make Microsoft’s scheduled release, Microsoft has announced today that “Microsoft Windows Vista is released to manufacturing (RTM) today — a significant milestone for Microsoft and its partners”.
The official release can be found at the Microsoft Windows Vista RTM Press Release

In an earlier post on Microsoft’s new release of Virtual Earth, I remarked on not having seen any billboards. Well, thanks to Jason McKim’s comment over at TechCrunch, I managed to see some and grab a few screens.

The link as provided by Jason is here.

Today Microsoft released an update to their Virtual Earth software. It adds several 3D US cities, with possibly 100 from around the world by the end of next summer.
I installed the update, and went traveling straight to Las Vegas. I was surprised at how good the 3D actually was. The textures are certainly high enough [...]

Given the popularity of Microsoft’s Office suite, we can expect a huge interest in each new version. Office 2007 is certainly no different.
It didn’t take long for a review to pop up either. It was announced just today that Microsoft Office 2007 was RTM(Released To Manufacturers), and PC Magazine wasted absolutely no time in getting [...]

As mentioned here recently, Microsoft is beginning to adapt a different attitude towards working with open source software and vendors. Now, as a further add-on to the news of Microsoft and Linux vendor Novell partnering, it has been revealed that Microsoft and Novell will also work towards better interoperability between Microsoft Office and Novell’s [...]

The deal effectively makes Microsoft a reseller of Suse Linux
Once and a while, something happens that causes people to stop and ask the question “why?”. Microsoft’s recent decision to work with Linux vendor Novell is one of those things.
Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft has agreed not to sue users of Suse Linux for [...]

Microsoft is no stranger to controversy regarding its products. This time, one particular part of the Windows Vista EULA is garnering some negative press. Scott Granneman and Ed Foster both raise some interesting points.
The particular part in question is regarding how benchmarks may be used by licensees of Vista. Microsoft states that licensees may not [...]

Microsoft and Zend have come to an agreement aimed at increasing the speed with which PHP scripts will run on Microsoft Windows and its web server Internet Information Services (IIS).
PHP is the leading scripting language when it comes to creating dynamic web sites, and is open-source. As PHP currently runs faster in non-Microsoft environments [...]