Microsoft to drop MSN chat

MSN has decided to cease all open and unmoderated MSN Chat worldwide from the 14th of October. Chat will only be available in certain countries around the world through subscription only. In the UK, Europe, Latin America and Asia, chat services will stop altogether. ...more

iTunes Music Store passes 250 million downloads

Downloads from the iTunes Music Store have passed 250 million, with the daily rate reaching 1.25 million songs. 'When we launched the iTunes Music Store we were hoping to sell a million songs in the first six months - now we're selling over a million songs every day, and we've sold over a quarter billion songs in total,' said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. ...more

Gates to step down from Microsoft

Bill Gates is quitting his post as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft to concentrate on his charitable work. He has announced that he plans to 'transition out' of his role by July 2008 although he will remain as the non-executive Chairman of the company he founded in 1975. Gates, the world's richest man with an estimated fortune of around $50 billion, is to turn his attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is estimated to give around $1 billion a year to charity projects that include educational scholarships and computer donations to schools in the United States. ...more

Sanders officially steps down from AMD

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Microsoft eyes business process management with BizTalk

Microsoft has announced the imminent release of BizTalk Server 2004. Part of the Windows Server family, it is business automation software that covers business to business communications, application integration and business process management (BPM). Applications built with BizTalk Server 2004 run on the Microsoft . ...more