Jul 13
WPC Customers on Microsoft’s volume licenses will get access to Windows 7 almost two months early and receive limited discounts to switch from Windows XP. Windows 7 will be made available to customers on volume licenses from September 1. The next iteration of Microsoft’s client operating system will launch on October 22. Those on volume contracts will also get discounts of between 15 and 35 per cent. Discounts will apply for a limited time and vary by country, the company told partners on Monday.
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Jul 12
Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) and Windows Millennium Edition (ME) are nearing the end of their support from Microsoft Corp. The software vendor will stop supporting these operating system editions on July 11, according to information on its Web site. On that date, all public and technical support for the products will be suspended, and Microsoft also will stop security updates for the operating systems, the company said. However, online self-help support will be available on Microsoft’s support Web site until at least July 11, 2007.
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Jul 11
As usual on the upcoming Patch Tuesday next week, Microsoft will be issuing a series of critical patches to fix security vulnerabilities for its popular Windows computer operating system. But this time, the company is getting a bit more attention than it’s used to for its patch release schedule.
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Jul 10
On Tuesday, the skies opened up, the sun shone bright, and a heavenly voice proclaimed that the days of the evil empire were at hand because a saviour had arrived. That was how most media outlets reported the announcement that Google was developing a computer operating system based on its Chrome web browser. Most of the stories I read stated that this meant Google was now striking at Microsoft’s core business.
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