With its lucrative Office suite in decline, Microsoft is feeling the heat. Once accountable for about 50 percent of Microsoft's revenues, Office contributed less than one-third of the company's revenues throughout 2004, and increased competition...
First launched as a public beta in November 2004, MSN Search was long in coming. Rumors of Microsoft's Web search challenge to market leader Google have been brewing for years now. But unlike previous versions of the search tool on MSN's...
Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably have noticed that Microsoft's once-laughable MSN unit is suddenly on a roll. After spending the first several years of its existence playing the punching bag to AOL's Rocky Balboa, MSN has found...
First launched in September 2004 as a public beta, Microsoft's MSN Music service went live in October 2004 and has been improving in small but appreciable steps ever since. Compared to rival services such as Apple iTunes Music Store, RealPlayer...
At the Professional Developers Conference 2003 in Los Angeles last year (see my exhaustive coverage of that show), Microsoft chairman Bill Gates touted the searching innovations that would go into Longhorn, the next generation Windows version that...
At Microsoft TechEd 2004, Mark Williams (Group Policy program manager at Microsoft) gave a presentation about Group Policy: planning, building, testing, and deploying it; features and troubleshooting; and related improvements in Windows XP Service...
The sudden emergence of Apple's iTunes Music Store as a successful venture last year caught more than a few people off guard. Though the service has yet to make any appreciable amount of money, Apple has managed to sell over 100 million songs via...
A. Usually when you delete a message, Exchange moves it to the Deleted Items folder, which you can empty by right-clicking Deleted Items and selecting Empty "Deleted Items" Folder from the displayed context menu. Alternatively, you can configure...
In an open letter to customers, Microsoft Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky apologized for the inadvertent inclusion of two swastika characters in Microsoft Office 2003's Bookshelf Symbol 7 font. "Due to an unintentional oversight, we failed...