Microsoft Archive

Microsoft plans to reorganize its Windows unit, creating a new division more tightly focused on the development of the core operating system, CNET News.com has learned. Also, Microsoft posted a review of their technology for 2003 and a preview for 2004.

Microsoft watchers have two interesting stories to follow this week. First is the new Intellectual Property (IP) licensing scheme. The second is a feverish round speculation (just a rumor) that Microsoft will buy AMD. Both tie into an older story about plans for the next generation Xbox.

S&P's Jonathan Rudy sees the giant as a powerful long-term play. Other software picks: Sybase, ADP, and Network Associates. Read the interview at BusinessWeek.

Microsoft broadens its intellectual property licensing, and adds new IP licensing programs, including one for its FAT file system.

In an interview, Microsoft's chief software architect says customers will be open to new uses of technology once security problems are under control.

This is the first of a series of four articles that look at the state of computing as I imagine it will be five years from now -in the fall of 2008." Read it at ITManager's Journal.

What’s the next killer app? What’s your biggest wish? The Microsoft chairman responds to readers’ letters in MSNBC's online forum.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates discusses "Longhorn," seamless computing, Linux and why he's so optimistic about the future.

Offering brings new levels of Transparency, Interoperability, Document Portability and ease of Communication, says Microsoft.

To persuade the Middle Kingdom to pick its software over Linux, Microsoft plays nice. Can there be such a thing as a kinder, gentler Microsoft? The answer may well soon emerge in China, where the software Ninja and Red Dragon are locked in a strategic duel over Windows and its free competitor, Linux. Elsewhere, Brazil moves to shun Microsoft software.

When Microsoft Corp. launches Virtual PC 2004, a Linux/BSD/Solaris/Netware version of the software won't be along for the ride—at least not officially.

From its Wallop interactive project to its SkyServer "worldwide telescope," wristwatches and Magic Paper, Microsoft Research has a lot on its plate, senior exec Rick Rashid told a PDC audience.

MSFN has posted a few shots of the upcoming Virtual PC 2004 runtime/emulator PC engine.

Steve Ballmer has a hard job. Being the CEO of a company the size of Microsoft is brutal and exhausting. Against his nature, Ballmer has been trying to change his own persona and the company culture. So far, he appears to have made progress. In my mind, Microsoft is a more mature corporate entity that it used to be. The startup mentality is important to hold on to, but isn't functional as the core value of a $30 billion company. What Ballmer needs to do is hold on to the best of the existing culture, while transforming it into something new. Tough job. I couldn't do it.