Yesterday, Nortel and Microsoft jointly announced four new unified communications (UC) products designed to help bring together enterprise voice, data, e-mail and other systems.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 12, 2008
The National Security Agency is leading an effort to extend its access control work into the arena of network file storage. The effort involves integrating NSA's Flask mandatory access control (MAC) architecture -- now the basis of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) -- into the Network File System (NFS) protocol widely used for network-attached storage devices.
- By Joab Jackson
- March 12, 2008
Ease of use was a big emphasis on stage at Convergence 2008, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer noting the Microsoft Office-like interface of Dynamics products in his keynote address.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2008
Microsoft today announced its intent to acquire Kidaro, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of enterprise desktop virtualization software.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 12, 2008
Yahoo just lost another option in its battle to stave off Microsoft's hostile takeover bid.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 11, 2008
The use of software as a service (SaaS) among small-to-medium businesses is on the rise, according to a report by Access Market International Partners (AMI-Partners).
- By Will Kraft
- March 11, 2008
Enterprise solution provider Software AG announced its webMethods Application Modernization Suite -- software designed to bring service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and other improvements to standard mainframe infrastructures.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 10, 2008
Ensuring that schools in low-income communities have access to the same technologies as wealthier schools isn't enough for James Burgett, executive director of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center in Northern California. He wants them to have better technology, and he wants them to have it for free.
- By David Nagel
- March 10, 2008
In a rare display of contrition, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday acknowledged frustration with the acceptance of Windows Vista and the company's failure to upgrade its Internet Explorer browser more routinely, as well the questionable decision to pursue separate development paths for Internet Explorer and the .NET Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 07, 2008
According to a story posted on TechCrunch this morning, Microsoft and Google are both preparing to make bids on the user-driven news aggregation site Digg.com.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 07, 2008
Aruba Networks claims that a recent study shows that not only do various vendors' 802.11n access points deliver dramatically different performances, some vendors' equipment is much better than others at working with third-party client adapters.
- By Patrick Marshall
- March 06, 2008
After spending 13 years as the richest person in the world, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has dropped to No. 3.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 06, 2008
Is Apple acknowledging the power and ubiquity of Microsoft's messaging platform? That might be a stretch, but the company has announced a forthcoming update to its iPhone 2.0 software that will include built-in support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008
At last week's VMworld, BEA and VMware announced their partnership on a project to allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008
A Document Interoperability Initiative was announced by Microsoft today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2008
One week after Microsoft officially launched the 2008 versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server, the company has taken its show on the road.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 05, 2008
A newly released report from Forrester Research makes predictions about enterprise software trends within the forthcoming decade.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2008
Zend Technologies has achieved Microsoft Windows Server 2008 certification for one of its PHP products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2008
In a major shift of position, the next release of Microsoft's widely deployed Internet Explorer browser will set standards-based rendering as the default, a move that will impact how developers build and deploy Web content.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 04, 2008
Microsoft and Google both recently added to their in-the-clouds application offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2008