Microsoft will begin supporting Exchange servers in virtual machines under certain conditions later this month, the company said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2005
Veteran Microsoft executive Bob Muglia will fill one of the key holes left by the executive reorganization that Microsoft unveiled in September.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court isn't hearing Microsoft's arguments that any eventual penalty in the Eolas Technologies patent case involving Internet Explorer be cut by about two-thirds.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2005
Oracle says it has begun beta testing a free, although limited, version of its 10g database designed for developers and students.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 01, 2005
Not only will Microsoft Office “12” feature the ability to save files in PDF format, it will also -- no surprise -- support the company’s own challenger to Adobe’s popular Portable Document Format (PDF) file format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 01, 2005
Microsoft’s version of a totally integrated world where computing power surrounds and works with people seamlessly is taking a giant step closer to reality. At least, that was the pitch from chief software architect and chairman Bill Gates and chief technical officer Ray Ozzie Tuesday as they rolled out a new batch of services, some already in beta testing, dubbed Windows Live and Office Live.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 01, 2005
Clearing the way for the formal Nov. 7 launch, Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2005
Microsoft is jumping into the online book search world with a new initiative called MSN Book Search.
- By Becky Nagel
- October 27, 2005
Microsoft on Thursday reported growth in earnings of 24 percent and a revenue increase of 6 percent in its fiscal first quarter on strong demand for PCs.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2005
Microsoft gave a minor status update to its “universal distributed storage” vision at this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Orlando, Fla.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 26, 2005
German utility developer 1-abc.net is shipping a new tool designed to simplify management of Windows startup folder options for end users.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 26, 2005
Microsoft's will ship the first version of its server-based business scorecarding application on Nov. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 26, 2005
On Tuesday, Microsoft officially released a detailed roadmap for its Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- October 25, 2005
Nemx is shipping version 2.0 of its secure e-mail and content protection product for corporate Exchange environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 25, 2005
Microsoft will move more aggressively into the business intelligence market, and the Microsoft Office suite will play a big role in the effort, Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes said.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2005
A venture capital firm stocked with ex-Microsofties is funding a new Windows/Linux interoperability company.
- By Doug Barney
- October 24, 2005
VMware is beta testing a free “player” that lets users run virtual machines and evaluate software without having to first purchase the company’s full-scale virtualization platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 24, 2005
Shipments of new PCs rose at a healthy rate during the third quarter of 2005, according to two leading analyst firms. Both Gartner and IDC put unit shipment growth at 17 percent compared to the year-ago quarter.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 20, 2005
Microsoft this week posted the second release candidate of Windows Server 2003 Release 2 for download.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 20, 2005
At its customer conference in Boston this week, Siebel Systems announced the availability of a new line of custom application development tools, including one especially designed to take advantage of Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released Visual Studio 2005.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 20, 2005