Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Business New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Microsoft Faces European Scrutiny - The software maker has gone through one long round of anti-trust probing in the United States and may soon face another. Reports now say the European Union wants to look at the company's licensing, discount, and Internet practices. [Wired News]   Microsoft Gets Help to Promote Windows NT - After its high-profile investment in Apple, Microsoft lines up an accord with accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick, which will promote Windows NT to major corporate clients. [Wired News]   Microsoft Gets Real with Streaming - The software giant will buy a stake in Progressive Networks, maker of RealAudio and RealVideo, and seek to define the industry standard for streaming technology. [Wired News]   Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head with Dailies - Sidewalk will be a direct assault on the bread and butter of daily newspapers and alternative weeklies: local news and information. [Wired News]   Microsoft Lands On Boardwalk - Backed by its own Monopoly money, the software giant goes after the real-estate market - to the chagrin of those already there. [Wired News]   Microsoft Links with HP on E-Commerce - The software giant aims to instill a sense of order in the burgeoning - and lucrative - field of online transactions. [Wired News]   Microsoft Pads Comcast's Pockets - With the move, Bill Gates again ups the ante in the convergence game of marrying computers to televisions. [Wired News]   Microsoft Plugs Free Net Content into Win98 - But there's a catch: One-way push of selected content via the TV broadcast spectrum. [Wired News]   Microsoft Reports Another Hot Quarter - The software giant saw net income of US$1.06 billion, up 86 percent from the year before and completely in line with analysts' expectations. [Wired News]   Microsoft Waives Fees for Online Banking - The move comes as banks and their customers grow increasingly comfortable with online transactions. [Wired News]   Microsoft and Intuit in E-Bank Detente - The rivals agree on "Open Financial Exchange," a common standard for online banking and financial transactions. [Wired News]   Microsoft to Netscape: Mine's Bigger - As if the 'browser war' wasn't nasty enough, companies are now trading blows over which can best meet the needs of big-bucks corporate clients. [Wired News]   Microsoft to Offer Pay-to-Play Games - The move is a big vote of confidence for an increasingly popular revenue model among gamers - charge by the day or month, not the hour. [Wired News]   Microsoft to US: You Knew All Along - Company lawyers say documents prove the Justice Department has long been aware of a plan to integrate "Internet technologies" and the OS. But could the government really have foreseen what Redmond had in mind? [Wired News]   Microsoft's Interactive Strategy Exec Exits - Eight years older and considerably wealthier, Richard Tait decides to move on to an as-yet undisclosed new project. [Wired News]   Microsoft, Dow Jones Team Up on Financial Data - The alliance could change the way Wall Street receives its life blood of market data, and pose a threat to Reuters and Bloomberg. [Wired News]   Microsoft, Sun Release the 'Java Papers' - In a textual escalation of its legal battle with Sun Microsystems, Microsoft Web-publishes its Java licensing agreement in an attempt to demonstrate it has not breached the pact. Sun also publishes the document. [Wired News]   Microsoft: Court Action Could Harm America - The software superpower asks for quick action on its appeal of a judge's order seeking to clamp down on the company's browser marketing practices. At stake, the company argues, is nothing less than the national well-being. [Wired News]   Milking the Net to Go Back in Time - Forget about virtual communities - what the Net makes possible is small-town, 19th-century-style communities of tech types who can telecommute to high-powered jobs. Just ask the folks in Camden, Maine. [Wired News]   Milking the WebTV Cash Cow - A leading Wall Street analyst says Microsoft's acquisition of WebTV could pay off big, but it may take some patience. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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