Joris Evers

Microsoft Corp. has pulled a security patch for Windows NT 4.0 because installing it can cause the operating system to crash, the software maker said Monday.

The European Commission on Thursday presented a draft directive that punishes copyright infringement for commercial purposes, but leaves the home music downloader untouched, infuriating the entertainment industry.

Microsoft Corp. has renamed its plan to link hardware and software security inside Windows-based computers. Palladium is now "next-generation secure computing base," which better describes the effort, the software maker said Monday.

Hitachi Ltd. announced four new hard disk drive (HDD) products this month and formally launched Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc., a new company comprising Hitachi's and IBM Corp.'s HDD operations.

Microsoft Corp. has come far to deliver on its "Trustworthy Computing" promise, but more needs to be done, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an e-mail late Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to delay a lower court order that forces it to distribute Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java software with Windows.

A security bug in a network service that ships as part of Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP can open systems up to attack, Microsoft warned in its first security bulletin of the year, issued on Wednesday and rated "critical."

Oracle Corp. will give users of version 10.7 of its applications suite limited support for another year after the June 30 general support cutoff date, to give them time to upgrade, the company said Thursday.