Ease of use was a big emphasis on stage at Convergence 2008, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer noting the Microsoft Office-like interface of Dynamics products in his keynote address.
A Document Interoperability Initiative was announced by Microsoft today.
A newly released report from Forrester Research makes predictions about enterprise software trends within the forthcoming decade.
One week after Microsoft officially launched the 2008 versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server, the company has taken its show on the road.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/05/2008
Microsoft and Google both recently added to their in-the-clouds application offerings.
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
Web applications, by far, dominate the list of application security vulnerabilities facing IT organizations, according to a report released recently by security firm Cenzic Inc., "Application Security Trend Report for Q4 2007."
Lattix today is offering the latest version of its large-scale management and rearchitecting solution for service-oriented architectures and complex systems.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for System Center Operations Manager has been released to manufacturing and is now available for download online.
On Friday Microsoft released an e-mail sent from Kevin Johnson, president of the Microsoft Platforms & Services Division, to employees of his department commenting on how consolidating with Yahoo might impact them and Microsoft as a whole.
Microsoft is placing a significant emphasis on standardization and interoperability, saying it will share its APIs and release extensive documentation of its protocols.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Ed Scannell
- 02/21/2008
Microsoft has launched a new Software Plus Services Architecture Center Web page on its Microsoft Developer Network.
Microsoft appears to be taking the next steps in its move toward a hostile acquisition of Yahoo.
Microsoft today launched an open source software project on the SourceForge site, aimed at developing conversion tools that will translate Microsoft Office binary files to Office Open XML (OOXML) file formats.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/15/2008
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
Today at Microsoft's Office System Developer Conference (OSDC) in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates commented on what he thinks Yahoo got right -- and wrong -- just as Yahoo formally rejected the Redmond, Wash.-based company's initial offer.
A global enterprise virtualization survey released today confirms that virtualization is becoming stronger and stronger in the enterprise, with server virtualization leading the wave.
Having sealed the deal on the largest acquisition in its history, IBM has moved to show that it has already taken the reigns of Cognos, the number two supplier of business intelligence and performance management software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/07/2008
Microsoft today has made a surprise bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. for a $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the company's closing share price Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
Critics thought it was over the top when Amazon.com Inc. expanded from books into music in 1998. When the Web retailer let competitors start selling things alongside its own inventory in 2000, they said Amazon had gone nuts.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/01/2008