Microsoft responds to EC over anti-trust settlement claims

Microsoft is fighting its corner on anti-trust issues against the European Commission. Under the shadow of fines of up to €2 million a day for non-compliance with the original settlement, it claims to have answered - on a deadline day - the European complaints. Microsoft was originally fined a record €497 million by the European Commission in March 2004, and was ordered to licence important parts of the source code for Windows Server to competitors. ...more

Microsoft loses China contract at last minute

The Beijing municipal government has pulled out of a deal to buy Microsoft software. In a victory for local suppliers, the local authority is instead expected to sign a deal with indigenous suppliers according to the Chinese website Pacific Epoch. The deal, in which the local government would gain the right to unlimited licences of Microsoft software over three years in return for $3. ...more

BT abolishes 6km limit on 512K broadband

BT Wholesale is to remove the distance limit on 512Kbps ADSL connections and extend the range of 1Mbps services. From 6 September, anyone connected to an ADSL-enabled exchange will be able to get broadband. Previously connections were limited to properties within 6km of the exchange when measured along the phone line. ...more

Fighting continues by other means

As the conflict in the Middle East continues, a new battleground has been found - the Web. According to Israeli officials, several Web sites containing the Israeli government's official view on the conflict crashed after Islamic groups jammed them. The first shot in the "cyberwar" was, however, apparently fired by some Israeli teenagers who, according to a local newspaper, boasted that they had sabotaged a Web site belonging to the Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. ...more

releases new XML editor

The company that revels in the tag of has updated its XML editor Features new to version 2.0 include editing and viewing XML documents as a graphical tree, spell checking, XML Catalog support and automatic generation of documents, with minimal markup, from a given DTD (document type definition) or XML Schema. Designed for use with all XML-related documents, it supports XML, XSD, XSL and DTD files. ...more