Microsoft's antitrust past has come back to haunt it, yet again.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 09, 2009
After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 06, 2009
Microsoft plans to rollout four security bulletins for this month's patch cycle on Tuesday, with two "critical" items and two "important" patches on the slate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 05, 2009
EMC and Microsoft formally renewed a partnership on Tuesday, extending their collaborative efforts on virtualization, content management and security solutions for the enterprise market through 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2009
Microsoft has begun aggressively reaching out to the channel to prepare for the release of Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 04, 2009
Additional products become available for 1,000 resellers in Oracle's VAD Remarketer Program.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 01, 2009
Users testing Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta have been asking Microsoft when it will release the final product, but Microsoft isn't saying right now, according to a Windows 7 team blog posted on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2009
A dispute with the European Union might change how Microsoft distributes its software in the region.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2009
One bright spot in the IT economy appears to be virtualization, with leading provider VMware today announcing that its yearly revenue rose 42 percent in 2008 to $1.9 billion. Fourth quarter revenues were a "solid" $515 million -- up 25 percent over last year.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 27, 2009
For the second time in as many weeks, after a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 27, 2009
Microsoft today made available Release Candidate 1 of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2009
Microsoft will discontinue its PerformancePoint business intelligence product and will merge its function into SharePoint Server, the company said late last week.
- By Michael Desmond
- January 26, 2009
A survey of more than 300 open source software (OSS) developers found that many plan to distribute their solutions as services over the Internet cloud.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 20, 2009
Netezza last week appeared to close the loop on one of its perceived competitive shortcomings when it unveiled a new interoperability strategy for Microsoft's business intelligence platform
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 16, 2009
Pink slips at the world's largest software provider may become a reality soon, according to several reports published this week, citing unnamed sources.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 15, 2009