Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 08, 2007
Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn't be long before release to manufacturing and general availability.
- By Keith Ward
- October 05, 2007
Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.
- By The Associated Press
- October 04, 2007
Microsoft expects to release seven security patches with four "Critical" and three "Important" bulletins as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 04, 2007
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.
- By The Associated Press
- October 04, 2007
Microsoft yesterday announced the Get Genuine Windows Agreement.
- By Keith Ward and Michael Domingo
- October 03, 2007
Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market.
- By The Associated Press
- October 03, 2007
In a surprise move, Microsoft said today it is releasing the reference source code for the .NET Framework libraries, a key step toward opening up the proprietary development platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 03, 2007
Microsoft Corp. kept its options open Tuesday on whether it will appeal a landmark antitrust ruling and record $613 million fine imposed by European competition authorities that an EU court upheld last month.
- By The Associated Press
- October 03, 2007
During a two-hour period on June 24, something unusual and a bit worrying turned up in e-mail security firm MessageLabs Inc.'s filters: 514 messages tailored to senior executives of corporate clients that contained malicious programs designed to steal sensitive company data.
- By The Associated Press
- October 03, 2007
Citrix Systems Inc. on Monday dropped requirements that North American VARs and consultants join the Citrix partner program to resell the company’s small and medium business-focused Access Essentials.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 02, 2007
Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance.
- By The Associated Press
- October 02, 2007
Response Point is one of Microsoft's few hardware products, and is available only through OEMs
- By Keith Ward
- October 02, 2007
Microsoft's SLP Services suite of programs are meant to help software developers and vendors control illegal use of their software.
- By Keith Ward
- October 02, 2007
Online videos aren't just for bloopers and rants -- some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer.
- By The Associated Press
- October 02, 2007
The high failure rates of IT departments to meet businesses' evolving needs are not exactly news in the IT community. Still, studies chronicling this situation never fail to shock. And so it is with a new study on IT effectiveness from business consulting firm Bain & Co.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 02, 2007
MIT last week launched the Kerberos Consortium, according to a report from the university's News Office.
- By David Nagel
- October 02, 2007
Action Packs, the software bundles Microsoft makes available at a very low price for its Registered Member partners, are going to require a little more action to obtain come the end of November.
- By Lee Pender
- October 01, 2007
Microsoft partners will soon be able to demonstrate their skills in two new competencies.
- By Anne Stuart
- October 01, 2007
If there's one acronym that's on just about everybody's radar these days, it's "SMB," for small and midsize business.
- By Lee Pender
- October 01, 2007