Windows Live services on Nokia S60 coming to the US
It was 2006 when Nokia and Microsoft first announced a partnership that would bring Microsoft's software to cell phones, and 2007 when it was announced a second time. At last, the results of their pairing will soon be appreciated in America.
A Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews this morning that the company's Windows Live services for Nokia's Symbian 60-based cell phones, which is already available in 25 countries, will have that number expanded to 33 by the end of the day today, with the United States being one of those new countries.
Europe is not preparing to impose sales limits on Intel
BetaNews has confirmed this morning that a widely disseminated story first published by Financial Times Deutschland, which said the European Commission was preparing to issue sales restrictions on Intel, is false.
The FT story, which appears here in a poor translation from German, stated that the EC was preparing to issue a decision that would force Intel to refrain from giving preferred customers in Europe any kind of discounts. Allegations of Intel playing favorites with certain customers, especially for preferring Intel over AMD, has been central to AMD's worldwide antitrust battle with the market share leader.
Dell found guilty in New York of misleading, harassing customers
Dell on Tuesday lost a major judgment in New York, in a case that centered around its financing practices for customers in which it was accused of defrauding and even harassing some.
The case was brought by the state's attorney-general Andrew Cuomo one year ago, and alleged that Dell failed to provide "zero-percent financing" to as much as 85% of the customers to whom that rate was promised, or who were otherwise entitled to such a rate. Dell then failed, the suit alleged, to provide customers with the customer support to which they were clearly entitled.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 now scheduled for Q3
The next builds for Microsoft's forthcoming Web browser generation may already be ready, but the company wants to give publishers some time to prepare, in case their Web sites end up looking somehow storm-damaged.
The next public preview of Microsoft's upcoming Web browser will be available in the third quarter of this year, according to a public blog post from a senior account manager in New Zealand named Nick Mackechnie yesterday morning.
And so it begins: The Windows 7 marketing push
Microsoft is speaking on the record about Windows 7 for the first time, though the message is controlled and diluted. The important takeaway is that the next Windows operating system will not be a major overhaul to Vista.
This morning, Microsoft officials have begun to speak publicly about the edition of Windows that follows Vista, as a real product whose development is under way. But just like the last go-round, what they're saying mainly revolves around the fact that they're speaking publicly.
Yahoo delays its board meeting again as one director steps down
To give itself more time to prepare for a fight against Carl Icahn and his "dream team" of alternate board directors, Yahoo has apparently indefinitely delayed its shareholders meeting. One director, however, is preparing for something else.
A draft of a proxy statement filed by Yahoo this morning with the US Securities and Exchange Commission omits the date of its upcoming shareholders meeting, which had been scheduled for July 3. The omission -- specifically, its replacement throughout the text with the symbol [1] -- indicates the date is being delayed once again.
Microsoft Office's ODF support might change the EC's mind
Given the fact that the next changes to Microsoft Office will enable consumers to choose which native format it uses, the European Commission may find itself with no alternative but to reconsider its investigation into unfair competition allegations.
In a statement this morning from Brussels, the European Commission said it will consider whether Microsoft's move on Wednesday to embrace OpenDocument format addresses a complaint raised January 14 that the company continues to unfairly make it difficult for others to compete.
Google's search share surges, everyone else's drops in just one month
At this rate, the time is within sight when the question of whether combining the smaller players in the search space to make one bigger one, may become moot.
According to comScore's report of US search engine traffic released this morning, Google's share of what are called "core searches" -- everyday queries from the main page, from US-based homes, offices, and universities -- rose 1.8% in a single month, leaping over the 60% milestone from March to April.
Microsoft acquires virtualization pooling firm Kidaro
An existing tool which enables pools of users to share a single desktop from any location, and individuals' desktops to be centralized through servers and distributed to thinner clients, will become part of Microsoft's growing virtualization arsenal.
The strategy Microsoft has taken with regard to virtualization technology has been to be able to offer corporate clients and Windows Server customers at least one option in each category. In recent months, a new option for virtualization has emerged: the ability for a server to host a single desktop that can be pooled and run by multiple clients, from any remote client.
Windows Home Server Power Pack to enter public beta after a data bug
It's one of Microsoft's most innovative products, creating a new market for consumer level server management. But Windows Home Server has recently suffered a few setbacks -- problems which may very well be addressed by a forthcoming beta.
Among the growing number of customers using Windows Home Server are consumers who aren't afraid to use multiple disk drives. Though Microsoft continues to recommend against the use of RAID redundant storage, WHS does offer a feature that automatically pools multiple physical storage devices into a single logical device, appending the storage space from one onto the end of another.
Is Microsoft trying to pull an 'IE' on Google's product search?
Apparently Microsoft is fine with not earning any money at all in a lucrative market where it finds itself no better than second place, and where its competitor has a dominant stake, if Microsoft can gain a foothold. Sound familiar?
Yesterday's announcement from Microsoft that it will give consumers sizable refunds on purchases they make from participating online retailers, on products they purchase through its Live Search service, has analysts split this morning. It was a big deal on Wall Street yesterday, with Microsoft shares dipping a tad, and the company targeted by this move -- Google -- following suit.
Microsoft's Matusow and Mahugh on Office's move to open format support
"We feel we are achieving parity in how Office treats the format, by making them all part of just one simple list of formats supported by Office," said Microsoft Office Product Manager Doug Mahugh, in an interview with BetaNews.
For the history of applications up until now, the specification of the format used to encode documents was defined largely and almost inescapably by the functionality of the programs which utilize them. A format represented what an application was designed to do, and that format changed when the application changed.
Google denies Schmidt said anything serious about Yahoo
On Monday during a press conference at its Zeitgeist Partner Forum in Great Britain, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-Presidents Sergey Brin and Larry Page were widely cited as having opened up the door to a possible partnership, or even something more, with Yahoo.
But this afternoon, a Google spokesperson denied to BetaNews that any of its executives made such overtures. And a YouTube video of the conference which re-emerged this morning after having been absent from public view for most of yesterday, would appear to confirm the spokesperson's take on the story. In fact, Brin and Page were openly reluctant to comment, deferring to Schmidt who made a brief reference to what was then considered a rumor -- later confirmed -- that Microsoft would be open to a purchase of part of Yahoo.
Next Office 2007 service pack will include ODF, PDF support options
In a breakthrough development, Microsoft has announced its future editions of Microsoft Office, beginning with Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, will enable users to choose OpenDocument support as an alternate default option.
Microsoft's director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow, and its senior product manager for ISO 29500-based products, Doug Mahugh, jointly confirmed the news to BetaNews personally.
Opera seeks a wider platform with release of Widgets SDK beta
With the sad status of being the world's #4 browser settling hard upon it, how does Opera find a niche? This morning, it answered that question by demonstrating itself literally picking up the pieces of an old project, and calling them an SDK.
According to recent statistics from the Web developers' educational site W3Schools.com, about 1.4% of the world's browsers last month responded as being Opera. That on the low side of where Opera's share of HTTP requests has been hovering for at least the last five years.
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