Microsoft announced Monday it would disclose 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 (DoJ) last fall. Chief among the changes is the disclosure

Online payments company PayPal, persuaded that ubiquitousness is a key to online success, has struck a deal to integrate its service into the Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Web site creation and management tool set. The move means that simple credit card

With an eye to the future, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates Thursday said the company will add 5,000 employees and ramp up research and development spending by 20 percent in the coming year. Gates promised the

Three new flaws were discovered in Microsoft (Quote, Chart) products that could allow a malicious user to cause havoc on your machine. The flaws were discovered in SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Metadirectory Services 2.2, and would

A core piece of Microsoft's .NET (define) strategy is beginning to unfold, as the software titan announced Wednesday that its Windows .NET Server operating system has reached Release Candidate 1 (RC1) status. Microsoft will make the code available to

Software titan Microsoft (Quote, Chart) is taking a significant step toward appeasing the open source community by integrating its .NET Framework into the Apache (define) Web server, the world's most popular back-end software for serving up Web pages.

Microsoft's push to make its Windows operating system more secure cost the company more than $100 million so far this year, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an e-mail newsletter to customers Thursday. In January 2001, Gates told

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Monday demonstrated version 1.0 of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), pushing the technology further to being adopted as a Web standard. Pronounced "Sam-el," its