Images: Office 12's makeover
The update to Microsoft's office tools is designed to help people make better use of its features.
Images: First views of Windows Vista
Trial version of next incarnation of Windows includes Virtual Folders, a Pictures and Video folder, a redesigned Start Menu and other features.
Vista looks to get tablets on write track
Microsoft talks up Longhorn Server security
Microsoft shakes up Software Assurance
Commentary: The Vista for consumers
Gates sees big dollars in little devices
Gates taking a seat in your den
Gates: Longhorn changed to make deadlines
Allchin: Don't call it 'Shorthorn'
The software titan sweeps away its old structure so it can execute faster. Windows chief Jim Allchin will retire once Vista hits the market.
Microsoft to reorg; Allchin to retire
Company creates three divisions with presidents in charge and focuses on hosted services.
Bloggers debate what reorg means for Microsoft
Newly formed divisions in particular have led to speculation about the software giant's future.
Sizing up the new Windows chief
Jim Allchin was a Bill Gates person, one analyst says. New guy Kevin Johnson "is fundamentally a Steve (Ballmer) person."
Allchin memo: 'The place to be'
Windows chief tells staff "my intensity will not abate" in the coming months as he heads toward retirement.
Microsoft reorg a bulwark against Google?
news analysis Search giant's expanding roster of Windows-free Web services may be a factor in the shuffle. And software on demand is an issue too.
Allchin legacy seen in Windows
The "most senior geek" after Gates got the OS onto almost every desktop, but he also influenced the decision that led to the landmark antitrust case.
Office 12 overhaul takes on 'feature creep'
Microsoft's radical revamp could wake people up to overlooked features, but risks alienating longtime users.
PDC 2005: Rallying point for Redmond
special coverage Developers gather in L.A. to hear the latest from Microsoft on Windows Vista, Office 12 and more.
Gates on Google: What, me worry?
newsmaker Web-based software efforts are on the rise, but Bill Gates tells News.com he's not losing any sleep.
A window into Vista
newsmaker Windows chief Jim Allchin talks about the challenges ahead and how the new OS might help conserve electricity.
Listen up: Jim Allchin rocks
blog Jim Allchin may be busy meeting with hackers and trying to get the Windows team to wrap up beta 1 of Longhorn, but the Microsoft executive also finds time to play a little guitar.
Going long on Longhorn
perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper explains why the upcoming OS is so important to Microsoft and the rest of the tech industry.
