Just in time for the summer concert and party season, CNet reports that Microsoft has rolled out plans for the WWW.C, an MSN kiosk of ass-tronomical proportions (ok, I just couldn't resist, I'm going to rot in hell for that one). CNet has pictures.

CNet reports that analysts believe that the transition to Windows 2003 server from NT and 2000 may take quite a while. The Gartner Group, an IT research firm, projects that around 60-70% of all Windows servers are still running Windows NT, the predecessor of Windows 2000, the progenitor of the …

According to an article in the UK's Digit magazine, the European Commission is set to levy fines of up to $3B on Microsoft if a settlement is not reached on anti-trust claims by the pan- European organization.

A consultant using a TabletPC running Microsoft Windows XP has written about his experiences in the first 150 days for Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine. The long and the short of it is that he likes it, with some quirks. Especially for the kinds of meeting related and document review work …

An article on SlashDot indicates that Microsoft is the new home for a free, downloadable version of The Unix Hater's Handbook. The manuscript is nearly 10 years old, out of print and the author appears to be working for Microsoft...

The Register is reporting in an article that Microsoft has a problem with it's Office 2000 products that is causing people who have site-licensed version of the product to register or be cut off from using the product. To add insult to injury, it appears that after the grace period …

According to a transcript of an interview with a senior official at FWB, they are working on directly supporting 3D graphics cards in future versions of RealPC. The RealPC product has been out of the Mac picture for a few years, apparently due to an agreement with Connectix that expired …

A disturbing article in Infoworld describes the terms of the new Microsoft 6.0 software agreements. This agreement, which Microsoft pressured customers to take last year by eliminating upgrade pricing schemes, apparently has provisions that require acceleration payments of the entire contract in order to make licenses perpetual on change …

Based on information from this page on Adobe's web site, Adobe is readying the Acrobat product for movement to version 6.0. Many of the features appear aimed at solidifying the position of the company's PDF format and heading off Microsoft's new generic document format, slated for release with …

Here's a paranoid thought. Upon reading an article from CNet about Microsoft keys to the new Server 2003 getting out on the net, I realized that it is in Microsoft's best interests to keep the software as buggy and susceptible to network-based attack as possible. Comments by the spokesperson for …

The founder of Lindows1, Michael Roberston, started a contest a little over a year ago to get a version of Linux up and running on the Xbox. Each phase had a reward ($100,000), and moved the contest forward to the next phase. The first phase, finished last year …

It's definitely not cooked yet, but the folks working on ReactOS have released version 0.1.1 of the Open Source operating system aimed at creating a "stable and open" platform that is compatible with Windows NT 4. This is an OS, not the windowing system, although the front page …

USA Today tells the story1 of a small business owner who, after being slapped with a hefty fine for using illegal copies of Microsoft software, decided to go completely free in his office. To date, he believes he saved himself $80,000 by doing so. The row with Microsoft …

This morning, I'd gone to the Cox High-Speed Internet FAQ to see if they had any limits on the amount of bandwidth consumed. While there, I found this interesting statement amongst the security info they provide to their users: "The majority of our customers use Microsoft Windows 95/98, which …

Day three of the GDC brings us to the first day of the Conference and Expo portion and out of the Tutorial section. The audience has grown substantially and it is difficult to find any place to sit and drink a cup of joe or get wireless access (forget that …

Not that this is a surprise, but Microsoft is abandoning its seat on the OpenGL Architecture Review Board(ARB). Also not surprisingly, they are doing so as to "focus our energies on improving and evolving our own Windows graphics platform." In other words, they've learned enough from the standard and …

In an amusing twist, the folks at Lindows1 have asked for hundreds of boxes of evidence from Microsoft which that company had used to extricate itself from a nasty copyright dispute with Apple. Apparently, the hope is that the evidence, which was compelling enough to keep Microsoft from having …

Intel, the huge microprocessor manufacturer, has released a paper about the Open Runtime Platform, a new execution environment. The trick here is that it is designed to be a high-performance platform for running other transportable platforms, like Java's JVM and Microsoft .Net's CLI, on multiple platforms (Intel-based, of course), including …

Apple Computer yesterday released a software package that allows .Mac users to access their iDisk folders directly from a Windows XP desktop. The software is available as a free download, but requires that users have a .Mac account to use it.

Microsoft today announced its new Rights Management software for Windows 2000 Server. The press release is here, and an article from CNet is here. The basic structure is to provide Windows programs with access (via a programming API to be available later this year) to documents with user- specific, time-specific …