Microsoft .NET Alerts service gives you the information you want where you want it: on your computer via MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger, on your mobile device, or in your e-mail inbox. "Deliver timely information to customers with Microsoft .NET Alerts-the Microsoft .NET My Services (formerly code-named "HailStorm") notification system."...businesses will be able to reach a large customer base with quality interactions, through a proven infrastructure. Customers can choose to have alerts delivered to the desktop when online, to an e-mail address, or to a mobile device when away from the computer"
ActiveWin: We thought some of you may just like to see the new Windows Messenger 4.5 in action before it goes up for download. Notice the new grouped contact lists, tabbed interface and that XP skin running on Windows Me.
As first reported in WinInfo Daily UPDATE, the version of Windows Messenger that ships in the box with Windows XP isn't a done deal, and Microsoft has numerous upgrades on tap for this component when XP ships on October 25. The upgrades, which Microsoft originally planned to release 2 weeks ago, will now ship October 25 through free download on Windows Update, alongside a slew of other updates to the OS. Microsoft says that it will update Messenger with Internet phone capabilities, .NET Alerts functionality, and other new features.
Microsoft said that week that it did nothing to obstruct justice in its European antitrust case, while CEO Steve Ballmer, in Florida for a Gartner conference, defended Microsoft's corporate culture, which he describes as hard working and bright, if a little surprised by the disdain it receives from the outside world. The company addressed obstruction charges in a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which revealed details of a confidential European Union (EU) memo to Microsoft, in which the EU accused the company of willfully misleading its investigators. The WSJ also reported that Microsoft had falsified supportive letters from customers.
Consumers are just getting their first look Windows XP, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft from preparing the first major update of the new operating system. Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said that starting Oct. 25, Microsoft plans to make available an upgrade to Windows Messenger, the communications console delivering instant messaging, videoconferencing and Internet phone calling, among other features. Windows XP is already available on PCs, but the boxed version comes out Oct. 25. The enhanced version of Windows Messenger packs new features kept under wraps during XP's development, including the first clear ties to Microsoft's forthcoming .Net software-as-a-service strategy.
Microsoft Corp. today announced significant updates to its Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) program. Based on customer feedback, Microsoft will introduce a new credential targeting IT administrators, as well as a plan to simultaneously recognize multiple, distinct versions of all MCP credentials.
"There are more than 1 million MCPs at the forefront of driving customer success with Microsoft technologies," said Mike Nash, vice president of the Content Development and Delivery Group at Microsoft. "These enhancements to the MCP program are being made in direct response to the changing needs of this important community."
Windows Messenger Update for Windows XP to Enable Consumers To Make PC-to-Phone Calls. Update to Be Downloadable Oct. 25 by All Users of Windows XP; Consumer Choice of Carriers Demonstrates Microsoft's Commitment to Windows XP as Platform for Third-Party Innovation.
With the widespread availability of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system just two weeks away, Microsoft Corp. today announced an update of the Windows Messenger real-time communications client, available Oct. 25, that will enable consumers to use their personal computers to make voice calls from their PCs to telephones via a choice of participating service providers within local regulations.
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems recently settled their long-standing lawsuit over Java. Microsoft dropped its Java license but retained the right to distribute its current products for seven years. The settlement, though, says Microsoft cannot update those aged Java products beyond bug fixes without also passing Sun's Java compatibility tests, effectively freezing the products in their current state. It is clear that Microsoft will not introduce any further products based on Sun's Java technology. Microsoft's new .Net and associated programming technologies will make it completely independent of Sun and Java--freeing it from legal requirements to pass Sun's compatibility tests.
Computer giant Intel hopes to release a 20-gigahertz microprocessor in the next five to six years. The current generation of PCs run on microprocessors of between 1Ghz and 2Ghz. Intel spokesman Kevin Teixeira said the technological advance was not in the making of the chip itself, but in its "packaging". A chip's package delivers the power the chip needs and transfers all the information into and out of the chip to the computer's motherboard. Teixeira said new technology called "Bumpless Buildup Layer" (BBUL) packaging allowed chips to be made thinner and lighter, with better electrical performance. Using BBUL, it is possible to tightly interconnect multiple chips inside the same small package, offering higher speed than chips with separate packaging.
Steve Ballmer, outspoken president and chief executive of Microsoft, dismissed rival Sun Microsystems' efforts to compete with his company's Passport identity service as "craziness" built on a "weak foundation." Ballmer was speaking to an industry group Wednesday when he was asked about the Liberty Alliance Project, a service announced by Sun and some 30 partners. Like Passport, it is designed to save and verify people's identities in order to speed up online transactions.
"I think what we announced is right. I think the Sun thing has absolutely no probability of mattering to the world. That's my nonemotional view," Ballmer told a symposium sponsored by Gartner, the information-technology consultant and analyst.