Microsoft CRM 4.0 should be hitting the shelves -- virtual or otherwise -- by year’s end.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/18/2007
Exploits continue to dog Microsoft programs and applications, as a government agency announced this week that a bug is in the wild that takes advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's Access Database.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/13/2007
Browser maker Opera Software has cried foul, charging Microsoft with antitrust behavior in a complaint to the European Commission.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/13/2007
LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, this week talked more about opening up its "platform" to select partners
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/12/2007
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/05/2007
Redmond is gaining, but when will it -- or can it -- overtake longtime market leader Oracle?
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/01/2007
Policy-based management improves database performance.
- By Peter Varhol
- 12/01/2007
Tami Reller, a Microsoft Business Solutions veteran, has a new job as CFO of Microsoft's Platform & Services Division.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/29/2007
An analysis by The Associated Press reveals that targeting small businesses is a lucrative strategy for the Business Software Alliance, the main global copyright-enforcement watchdog for such companies as Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/26/2007
Responding to a soon-to-be released study revealing that as many as a half a million database servers aren't protected by firewalls, security experts contend the findings constitute a call to action for security pros and database administrators everywhere.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/14/2007
The next preview of SQL Server 2008 supports spatial data types and a new Resource Governor feature is slated to hit in a week or two.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/12/2007
Google's attempt to take a leading role in social networking has some pundits saying yet another Google vs. Microsoft battle scenario is playing out.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/06/2007
In announcing today that it will release to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 this month, Microsoft is meeting the most optimistic forecasts for when the long anticipated upgrade to its flagship IDE would ship.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2007
The ongoing file format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn lthis week, when a key ODF proponent announced that it intended to abandon the ISO-approved specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/02/2007
Another step on the road to integrated data and applications.
- By Peter Varhol
- 11/01/2007