Microsoft hopes consumers will use its HealthVault service to store all of their health records online.
Microsoft will extend its Passport authentication service to the broader business market, which could potentially include its rivals, in an effort to build acceptance for its service and allay privacy concerns.
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As Microsoft did on the PC desktop, AOL battled fiercely in the early days of the Internet--beating stiff competition to reach the top. Now Microsoft is launching an all-out attack in AOL territory, add one of the largest antitrust cases in US history, and you've got a conflict.
Microsoft wins big in appeals, shrugs off the antitrust police, and rides toward a new, stronger monopoly. Will Bill Gates lead the charge to victory, or straight back into the courts?
The United States moves forward with a plan to put RFID chips and biometric data in passports by early next year.
Microsoft this summer will lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Microsoft intends to lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Buffeted by criticism of the way it handles privacy and security matters, Microsoft is trying to batten down the hatches on both fronts in simultaneous efforts.
Many tech leaders tout single sign-on (SSO) as the Holy Grail of directory services and a key to password protection, but is it a security cure-all.
Microsoft Money 2006 is a worthwhile upgrade for current users who like to bank and pay bills online, but it requires Windows XP.
China's 960 million citizens will be issued with digital smart ID cards, starting from next year.
The first test version of the new email software blocks external content in Web-based email.
If your employees are using public instant messaging programs, Steven Vaughan-Nichols says to stop them right now. Your network's wide open to security breaches.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
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