Bob Liu

NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the general availability of the new Microsoft Office System, the biggest upgrade for the popular personal productivity desktop software in the company’s history. The rebranded Microsoft Office System, which is version No. 11, consists of six suites, 11 products, four servers, Solution Accelerators as well as accompanying […]

Trying to capitalize on the latest mega-patch released last week by Microsoft, a strain of the SWEN/Gibe virus is once again posing as a Microsoft security patch in an effort to trick users into running a so-called Trojan Horse that opens up computers to remote attacks. But what makes this deceptive e-mail more dangerous this […]

One of two leading forecasters of the PC market is ratcheting up its global industry outlook thanks in part to a stronger-than-expected surge in consumer activity in the U.S. and Europe during the second quarter. “The consumer is the main reason for the PC growth. Worldwide, the consumer is acting very strong,” said Kiyomi Yamada, […]

IBM plans to show off its commitment to Java-based pervasive computing at this week’s JavaOne Conference in San Francisco by unveiling Palm as well as two other leading device manufacturers as its newest partners for the Websphere Micro Environment (WME), a Java-powered embedded runtime environment. On Tuesday, IBM plans to announce that Palm and QNX […]

Sun Microsystems is hoping to kick off the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco with a heavy emphasis on two particular fields of Java-based software development: wireless platforms and Web services. But in part due to the fact that the Web services side of the equation has been highly fragmented by industry competitors, the Santa Clara, […]

IBM on Monday said it received notice of a formal, non-public investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into its revenue recognition practices for 2000 and 2001. The Armonk, NY-based computer giant said the SEC is seeking information primarily concerning certain types of customer transactions but declined to specify the details. In its […]

NEW YORK — Customers will demand higher performance 64-bit computing, which until now has been reserved only for buyers of costly proprietary architectures, said AMD President and CEO Hector Ruiz Tuesday. Speaking here at AMD’s launch event for the new Opteron 64-bit processor, the 57-year-old chief executive said customers are demanding greater performance because more […]

A worm that computer security officials have known about since last summer virtually halted Internet traffic over the weekend in some parts of the world. The worm, reportedly called “Sapphire” or “Slammer,” affected servers through a well-publicized vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Once it attaches to a server it transmits multiple data requests in […]

Echoing sentiments from LinuxWorld Expo last February, hardware and software vendors next week plan to challenge the notion that Linux is only meant for the lighter tasks of corporate computing. New strategic ties with software infrastructure (or so-called middleware) vendors and key customer wins will serve to build more momentum around the open source movement […]