Microsoft kicked off its first-ever Business Intelligence (BI) Conference in Seattle with a keynote speech by Business Division President Jeff Raikes, who spoke in general terms about Microsoft’s efforts to integrate existing products into businesses processes, without offering much in the way of specifics.
Business software maker SAP AG announced plans Tuesday to buy OutlookSoft Corp. and its line of technology products tailored for budgeting and financial forecasts, the latest development in SAP's duel with Oracle Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2007
If you're taking your first MCP or Microsoft Dynamics exam, you're eligible for a 40 percent discount on your very first exam.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/09/2007
VMware announced today the release of VMware Workstation 6, the first of its virtualization products to offer support for Windows Vista.
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
While most corporations eventually intend to migrate, it could be a long process, and there are still significant concerns with Vista.
When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas last week, the new cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content lacked support for the popular Opera Web browser.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/08/2007
Research in Motion this week announced it is developing a Visual Studio plug-in for developing apps for BlackBerry devices, a move that follows its late-April announcement of software that will provide Windows Mobile 6-based phones with a "virtual" BlackBerry experience.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/08/2007
Microsoft Corp. today published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
Windows Vista's mail client is obsolete after just a few months of life as a commercial product.
The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/07/2007
Dell has become the first hardware maker to join Microsoft and Novell in their effort to enhance interoperability between the Windows and Linux platforms.
Branch offices present special challenges for IT, mostly because of often slow or unreliable WAN connections, and a lack of onsite IT personnel to secure the local network and computers. Microsoft Corp. and Cupertino, Calif.-based Packeteer believe they have found a solution with iShaper, which is being promoted as a "branch office in a box."
Microsoft, perhaps stung by its failure to buy online advertising giant DoubleClick in recent months, announced that it has bought European company ScreenTonic SA, a mobile advertising company.
All seven updates will address critical issues, Microsoft said. Redmond lumped the bulletins into several groups, two of which affect Windows.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/04/2007
One of the most ambitious aspects of the "$100 laptop" project for schoolchildren in developing countries is the machines' open-source software platform, designed to be intuitive for kids.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2007
Microsoft is said to be resuming its pursuit of search engine operator Yahoo, which will help it better compete with search leader Google.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2007
Visual
Basic guru Paul Vick revealed this week on his blog that the company is
working on a reboot of Visual Basic, dubbed at this stage VBx
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/03/2007
BizTalk R2 represents a change in thinking about RFID, or radio frequency identification, says Microsoft product manager.
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007