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  • Clouds over Redmond

    The latest delay for Windows Vista highlights a mounting challenge for Microsoft -- finding a way to update its most important product on any kind of reasonable schedule.

  • Microsoft to shake up Windows leadership

    Microsoft is planning a management shake-up in its Windows division and will appoint Steve Sinofsky, currently head of the company's Office division, to oversee Windows development, according to a source close to the company.

  • Microsoft revamps Vista testing schedule

    Microsoft has tweaked its testing schedule for Windows Vista as it tries to get the operating system update out by the end of 2006.

  • Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna

    Although Microsoft is hard at work trying to ship Windows Vista this year, the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna.

  • Windows 2007 server to omit WinFS

    As test versions of the new WinFS file system were released this week, Microsoft said the technology would not be ready for the so-called "Longhorn Server" release, due in 2007.

  • New Windows file system enters testing

    Microsoft surprised developers on Monday by releasing a test version of a new Windows file system.

  • Beta of Windows Vista due tonight

    Microsoft plans to release a test version of the next version of Windows on Wednesday morning in the US, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.

  • Longhorn's new name: Windows Vista

    The next version of Windows finally has an official name: Windows Vista.

  • Going long on Longhorn

    CNET News.com's Charles Cooper explains why the upcoming OS is so important to Microsoft and the rest of the tech industry.

  • Apple unleashes Tiger in Australia

    Apple Computer said Wednesday in Australia the updated desktop and server versions of its operating system, dubbed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, would be available Friday, 29 April.

  • Microsoft lifts curtain on Indigo

    Microsoft has released an early version of Indigo, a new communications system intended to let Windows programs more easily connect to other software.

  • Longhorn beta will arrive by June: Microsoft

    Microsoft is on track to release the first full test version of the next major Windows release by the end of June, a Microsoft executive said on Monday.

  • Microsoft: Slow going for desktop search in Windows

    Microsoft has no immediate plans to integrate new desktop search tools into its Windows operating system, according to an executive with the software maker.

  • Gates and the code-jockey elite

    Five years ago this week, Bill Gates passed the CEO baton to Steve Ballmer.

  • IBM spices up corporate search

    IBM will muscle into the corporate search software market with the delivery Thursday of a significant update to its database tools.

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