Susan Kuchinskas

A national registry of consumer e-mail addresses would make things easier for spammers and could actually increase the total amount of spam, the Federal Trade Commission has concluded. As part of the federal CAN-SPAM Act, which became law in January, the FTC was mandated to report on the feasibility of establishing a National Do Not […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Microsoft brought its brainiacs to Silicon Valley for a road show highlighting the latest cool stuff. Scientists from Microsoft Research labs in San Francisco and Redmond joined their colleagues at the company’s Mountain View, Calif. campus to showcase speculative projects that could someday find their way into products. Researchers are working […]

Microsoft Corp. is breaking away from its small server image and is working on a version of Windows to run very large, very high-powered supercomputers. Known for its presence on the desktop and in 2-way and 4-way servers, the company confirmed Tuesday that it is exploring high-performance computing and developing a Windows HPC edition. ”This […]

Analysts say the rapprochement between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems — and the huge cash payment Sun got along with its handshake to collaborate on technology — are good news for Sun. But they also question whether the deal is enough to help brighten Sun’s future. In return for Sun ending patent and antitrust suits against […]

Microsoft executives this week continued to let slip details about the progress of Longhorn, the successor to Windows. On Wednesday, an e-mail sent to customers and partners detailed the intense work Redmond is doing to answer criticism that its Windows XP operating system is prone to attacks and hijacking. The company is now referring to […]

As expected, the European Commission on Wednesday levied a record fine of $613 million and imposed other penalties against Microsoft, including stripping its Media Player software from Windows in European markets , after ruling it abused its monopoly position. Although companies can’t sue another software company for being successful, Microsoft’s dominant market position made it […]

SAN FRANCISCO — IT executives speaking here at the Open Source Business Conference this week delivered a message to the open source community: Focus on middleware and applications. Robert Lefkowitz, chief technical architect at AT&T Wireless , said the Linux desktop will have limited utility to corporations running custom hardware and vertical applications. IT executives […]

Gluecode, a Los Angeles software firm delivering “managed open source” products, landed $5 million in financing today from Rustic Canyon Partners and Palomar Ventures. The firm specializes in portal and server software based on open source Apache Jetspeed. Gluecode offers a free downloadable version of its software as well as two licensed offerings, one for […]

Looking to show a unified front against spam, the nation’s top e-mail and Internet service providers — America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo! — are expected to outline their efforts in stopping unwanted e-mail at its source. Representatives from the coalition are scheduled to appear at a press conference Wednesday morning in Washington D.C. to […]

MOUNTIAN VIEW, Calif. — Next week, Microsoft will launch a print and ad campaign centered on its Windows Server System in response to user feedback, officials with the software giant said. Valerie Olague, director of marketing for the system, previewed the new products on Thursday at an informal lunch on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus here. […]