Microsoft yesterday disclosed some collaborative efforts that will help Java applications read Microsoft Office file formats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2008
Yahoo announced Tuesday that it's joined forces with Google and MySpace to back OpenSocial, a group that aims to define a common API to allow social applications across multiple sites.
- By David Nagel
- March 26, 2008
Microsoft has added another nickel to its open source credibility bank this morning with the announcement of its first collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- March 19, 2008
Microsoft and Aspect Software Inc. today initiated a global strategic alliance focused on better enhancing communications between contact centers and the broader enterprise.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 18, 2008
Sun Microsystems and the National Security Agency (NSA) announced last week that they are working together to develop new security tools for the OpenSolaris operating system.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 17, 2008
The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard for business documents.
- By William Jackson
- March 17, 2008
Microsoft this morning revealed to developers the expected next steps in the software development kit (SDK) for the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- March 13, 2008
CNET is reporting this morning that Microsoft and Yahoo are now talking, at least informally, about the merger. CNET reporter Dawn Kawamoto cites an unnamed source for the information. "Yahoo has shown some willingness to have a conversation and talk," the source said.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 13, 2008
Novell, a sponsor of the open source Mono project, issued an announcement today that a new development tool, called MonoDevelop 1.0, will be available for download at the end of this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2008
Sun, Microsoft are working together to develop a set of guidelines for implementing Exchange Server 2007 on Sun server and storage hardware.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 11, 2008
Microsoft rolled out four "critical" security bulletins -- all with as many as 12 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, according to security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 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
Microsoft announced that it will be releasing four patches, all rated critical because they allow remote-code execution, and all involving Microsoft Office in some way.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 06, 2008
Microsoft's Students to Business portal pairs U.S. college students working toward IT careers with companies who are looking to fill entry-level IT positions.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008
With a name like "Cult of the Dead Cow" you know these guys are probably up to no good, and they are living up to expectations with the release of Goolag Scan, a tool to automate the use of search engines to scan for vulnerable applications, back doors and sensitive information on Web sites.
- By William Jackson
- March 06, 2008
A Document Interoperability Initiative was announced by Microsoft today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 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
After nearly three months of private beta testing, Microsoft Office Live Workspace is being rolled out worldwide as a full public beta.
- By David Nagel
- March 04, 2008
Microsoft's SaaS initiatives gets kickstarted with online betas of Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 03, 2008
According to blogger Nicholas Carr, Microsoft may be preparing to make a major Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) announcement soon, possibly at its Mix '08 conference this week in Las Vegas
- By Becky Nagel
- March 03, 2008