Tami Reller, Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer, has revealed that Windows 8 has reached 100 million licenses sold after 6 months on the market, while the Windows Store has seen 250 million downloads More...
Microsoft has announced today that 60 million licenses of Windows 8 have been sold to date and that there have been 100 million downloads from the Windows Store. Make the jump to learn more More...
Microsoft has provided an update on its WIndows 7 sales and has said that there have been 630 million licenses sold to date which is 30 million more than the last update of 600 million. More...
The launch of Windows 8 is getting closer, but its predecessor is still doing well: Microsoft confirms that it has now sold more than 600 million Windows 7 licences, an increase of 75m in five months. More...
Microsoft has landed many Android patent agreements with Google's vendors. If a report is to be believed, Microsoft could earn $444 million a year off of these agreements. More...
During the keynote at WPC: Day 1, Steve Ballmer took to the stage and announced that Microsoft has now sold more than 400 million licenses for Windows 7 to date. Since the release of Windows 7... More...
Today, at PDC 2010, Steve Ballmer took the stage to announce some exciting new products and updates to Windows, Azure and many more products. During the announcement, Steve Ballmer talked about how Windows 7 has surpassed... More...
Microsoft said on Thursday that Windows 7 is running on 93% of new consumer PCs and has over 17% global OS market share. Windows 7 was released a year ago tomorrow, on October 22, 2009. The... More...
Whether you love him or hate him, you won't want to miss his last CES Keynote, especially with announcements like Microsoft having sold 100 million licences of its latest OS. I know people tend to... More...
Epic Games has agreed to incorporate GameSpy's suite of online technology into Unreal Engine 3, under the terms that the technology will be immediately available to any publishers or developers that license the engine. PlayStation... More...
Nanolithosolutions of Carlsbad, California has licensed a technology process from HP Labs called nanoimprint lithography– a method of literally stamping out patterns of wires less than 50 atoms wide on a substrate. NIL technology has... More...
A German court has sentenced a 42-year-old Turkish software dealer to two years and 11 months in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses. The man was arrested in June 2006 by German... More...
"TechWeb has posted an article regarding Vista's new license and how it allows you to only move it to another device once. How will this work for people who build their PCs? I have no... More...
In what has to be one of the biggest new stories to hit the online gaming scene in quite awhile, Sony Online Entertainment announced yesterday that they had licensed Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology for... More...
Fear not readers, this is not an announcement that AMD will be shifting to RDRAM for Socket AM2, so sit back and relax. Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to pay Rambus... More...
Gearbox Software announced yesterday that they had entered into a long-term agreement with Epic Games to use the Unreal Engine 3 technology in thier future next-generation Console and PC games. Previously, Gearbox has used the... More...
To help nudge Linux and open source software further into the enterprise, a vice president at Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday called on rivals IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc to invalidate their open-source software licenses in... More...
Microsoft has invested in security company Finjan Software and licensed its patents that cover ways to protect systems against previously unknown security threats. The deal, announced Wednesday, gives Microsoft a minority share... More...
West Point, NY May10, 2005 - The U.S. Army today announced that it is expanding its technology agreement with Epic Games. Since 2000, Epic's Unreal® Engine 2 has served as the foundation for America's... More...
Opera Software has announced that it will make its popular web browser available free of charge to universities and colleges. Originally, schools had to purchase licenses in bulk at a cost of $1 each. Institutions... More...
palmOne, Inc. today announced that it has licensed Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange Server ActiveSync® protocol to enable the delivery of security-enhanced, wireless and direct synchronization between Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003, part of Windows Server System, and... More...
Scaled Composites, designer and operator of Space Ship One, have announced a deal with Virgin today. Worth ~$20 million, the tie up will see Virgin license Space Ship One technology, and offer flights under the... More...
BioWare has sent word that they've signed a license agreement with Epic Games for the Unreal Engine 3. The engine will be used in an unannounced upcoming title, which will feature BioWare's third new intellectual... More...
There was further bad news for troubled publisher Acclaim in its latest round of regulatory disclosure documents, as the company admitted that it has lost the rights to the Turok franchise and Major League Baseball.... More...
Microsoft Corp. has begun offering free software licensing for "cold servers" or networking computers that are kept off until they are needed, the world's largest software maker said on Friday. The new feature, part of... More...
Turbolinux, a Japanese seller of the open-source operating system, has bridged a philosophical divide by licensing Microsoft technology for playing digital music and video. Pragmatism led the company to combine products from the... More...
Action movie director John Woo wants to bring one of the most famous women in video gaming to the big screen, and he plans to spend big bucks to do it. Woo's production company, Tiger... More...
UK system-on-a-chip developer Imagination Technologies will see its PowerVR MBX 3D graphics core used in ARM-based mobile phone and PDA processors made by Samsung. The company today said that ARM had sub-licensed the technology to... More...
Apple Computer said it would license its leading iPod digital music technology to Hewlett-Packard, the world's second largest computer company, as it seeks to break out from its niche markets. HP will also bundle Apple's... More...
ALi announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Intel on chipset development supporting the Intel Pentium M processor. ATI Technologies was the first company to sign the Pentium M chipset agreement. Silicon... More...
The European Commission widened its probe into Microsoft Corp for anti-competitive practices on Thursday, asking computer hardware makers for details of their licensing deals with the software giant. Competition regulators at the European Union's executive... More...
The SCO Group is one of four new licensees for Microsoft's interoperability protocols, we learn from the latest antitrust compliance bulletin. Regular reports are issued to monitor compliance with the Antitrust settlement, specifically "to ensure... More...
Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday they "remain concerned" about the price Microsoft Corp. plans to charge competitors to view the inner workings of the Windows program under its antitrust settlement... More...
REDMOND, Wash. - AT&T Wireless has agreed to pay $30.75 million in cash and assign some of its wireless licenses to Chicago-based U.S. Cellular Corp. in a deal covering 15 states, the companies said Monday.... More...
Palm has followed Handspring and licensed Research in Motion's extraordinary new technique of generating cold fusion energy at room temperature. RIM has "a history of developing breakthrough wireless solutions", and the fusion... More...
Slashdot has a good article and thread going (which comes from the NY Times, yea i know registration required but neowin/neowin works quite well!) on the dangers of people reading the magnetic strip on the... More...
In what looks to be a case of selling sand to Saudi Arabia, DivXNetworks Inc said yesterday it has licensed its controversial DivX MPEG-4-based video technology to the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (Institut Graphische... More...
Microsoft announced this week that it has licensed Sonic Solutions' DVD-authoring technology, probably for inclusion in the next version of Windows (code-named Longhorn). Following Microsoft's announcement, shares of Sonic Solutions soared almost 40 percent yesterday.... More...
Microsoft's offer to sell home users extra licenses to use their Windows XP software on additional PCs is a hit. It's such a big hit, you can't find the licenses anywhere. Windows XP's product activation,... More...
Found this over on Wininfo. :) As promised in late August, Microsoft has begun offering Addition Licenses for Windows XP, though only at a slight discount over the normal retail price. The company... More...