In a little-noticed move that promises to change the landscape for project portfolio management software vendors and consultants, Microsoft announced Thursday it has completed its acquisition of New York-based UMT.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/19/2006
NetPro Computing announced it is shipping a major upgrade to its distributed services management product for Active Directory.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/19/2006
Microsoft announced late Wednesday that it is shipping the latest version of its software solution for customer service centers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/19/2006
Seagate Technology says it is shipping the first 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drive built on perpendicular recording technology, producing drives that can contain up to 160GB of storage.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/18/2006
Corel announced this week that it will ship the latest release of its graphics bundle in February.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/18/2006
Microsoft released to developers a previously promised community technology preview – or CTP – for a set of key technologies coming in Windows Vista.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/18/2006
A problematic SCDPM 2006 installation provides a little real-life lesson on the benefits of reading.
Who said that only Apple does cool things? Microsoft recently had King Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp over to Microsoft Studios a few blocks from the company’s Redmond, Wash. campus, to record some sounds that may well end up being the startup music when you boot Windows Vista.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2006
Microsoft is rolling out new and updated tools to help customers migrate their Lotus Notes and Domino applications to its own collaboration platform based on Office and its SharePoint Services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2006
Admin tries to remove programs, but doesn't see that option
Microsoft announced yesterday that three manufacturers -- Casio, DigiPoS Systems Group and HP -- will sell point-of-sale terminals pre-loaded with Microsoft Point of Sale software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2006
Tenuous support, trust, quality and assurance are just some of the reasons not to install a third-party patch.
Don't sweat the technique--two ways to accept input from the command-line outside of the norm.
Microsoft's "leaked" memos appear to be mandates from on high made public on purpose to kick itself in gear.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 01/16/2006
From the business wires: a tool pack for spotting security holes in software, a database query and reporting tool, and 10GbE Layer 4-7 switches.
It may seem like Microsoft has scaled every peak, but the software giant is playing an important game of catch-up with Yahoo! and rival Google in the area of search engine advertising.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/13/2006
A year after first disclosing its internal “Project Elixir,” Microsoft has begun releasing sample code and documentation so that developers can use it as a pattern to design their own integrated front-end and back-end systems around Outlook 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/12/2006
Microsoft to waive MCT program fees for new candidates who join prior to start of 2006 program.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/12/2006
German utility developer 1-abc.net announced it is shipping a bundle containing four of its increasingly popular end-user Web tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/12/2006
ScriptLogic says it is shipping a tool meant to improve how desktop software is packaged for installation across an enterprise.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/12/2006