Microsoft's director for SaaS architecture, Gianpaolo Carraro, wasn't talking miracles in his April SaaScon 2007 presentation, "Anatomy of a SaaS Application."
Don't look now, but Microsoft Corp. is prepping still another mega-patch, this time for the Windows DNS vulnerability it first disclosed last week.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/20/2007
Back by popular demand: Windows XP. PC maker Dell Inc. said on its Web site Thursday it will once again let home PC buyers choose between Microsoft Corp.'s older operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2007
Those with a desire to see how well messaging runs on 64-bit power but without the infrastructure or money to put that kind of environment in place now have a way to take a free, week-long test drive.
Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to pay Iowans up to $180 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company had a monopoly that cost the state's citizens millions of dollars extra for software products.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2007
Visual Studio "Orcas" and the .NET 3.5 Framework are now in public
beta.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/19/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will build on existing efforts to bridge the digital divide worldwide and announced several new ventures, including a $3 software package for governments that subsidize student computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2007
Greater investment in technology to improve health care and education would help ease global economic inequality, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2007
Samsung Electronics Co. and Microsoft Corp. said Thursday they have entered into a patent licensing agreement focused on the technology companies' consumer electronics lines.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2007
Microsoft to put Project exam through paces with beta testers for two weeks starting Tuesday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/19/2007
Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to pay Iowans up to $180 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Research in Motion confirmed the outage Wednesday morning, but disclosed no details about the cause.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Oracle yesterday disclosed what it plans to do with Stellent, an enterprise content management (ECM) solution provider that Oracle acquired in December of last year for about $440 million in cash.
One in five help desk calls related to passwords, says one study. Plus: Flaws in EMC NetWorker, GnuPG messaging.
A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Use the Net group command to give you network Who's Who.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/18/2007
Microsoft Corp. wants to provide support to independent software vendors (ISVs) that are plunging into the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry.
Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint program as the two companies vie to dominate the online experience.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Inexpensive, always on, someone else's management headache, (almost) spam-free inboxes -- having your messaging server hosted has its benefits. But choose your host wisely.
It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web -- YouTube and MySpace included -- get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007