Microsoft Wednesday disclosed a variety of Windows technical information that the company said would bring it in line with the settlement it reached with the Department of Justice last fall. As it announced earlier this month, the Redmond, Wash., company

Microsoft buffed up its Web services push with the announcement Monday of a technical preview of its Web Services Software Development Kit (SDK). Microsoft said the SDK would build on its Visual Basic and .Net Framework, giving developers the tools

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its August 2002 survey from 35,991,815 sites. This is a dip from June's peak of 38.8 million and July's low of 37.2 million sites.

With the company putting all of it weight behind .NET, Microsoft is hoping to ease some of developers' concerns about Visual Studio's role in the .Net framework by providing details on the direction of its development products. The Redmond, Wash.-based

Microsoft on Wednesday published a bulletin warning of three security vulnerabilities in Office Web Components (OWC), software used to give users limited Office functionality in a Web browser. The most serious of the vulnerabilities could enable an

With Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Exchange Server 2000 finally shipped out last week, attention and criticism is mounting for its next scheduled Exchange release, code-named Titanium. The Redmond, Wash., behemoth has recently begun disclosing the

While advances in Web services (define) for businesses has accelerated behind company's firewalls, the ability to define standard business processes is considered by many to be a cornerstone in the adoption of Web services beyond the firewall. Three major

Microsoft Corp. agreed Thursday to 20 years of independent, third-party audits of the Passport identification and authentication system to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that Microsoft falsely misrepresented the privacy and security of