The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software -- freely distributed programs that anyone can modify -- the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/14/2007
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
Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of the first component of its new virtualization platform, and laid out a roadmap for opening the platform's source code. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems company bills its xVM Ops Center virtualization management tool as a "highly scalable datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments."
- By John K. Waters
- 12/05/2007
The 2002 consent decree that partially governs Microsoft's actions about its monopolistic business practices was originally supposed to expire today. But Redmond is currently locked in a battle with a coalition of states that want to see federal oversight extended for another half-decade.
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
Microsoft has signed its first patent protection deal with a Linux vendor based in Asia.
Microsoft added a new server to its lineup today, this one aimed at the growing mobile technology market.
Two antitrust claims brought against Microsoft Corp. by Novell Inc. can proceed, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/16/2007
Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/08/2007
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2007
Microsoft Corp. kept its options open Tuesday on whether it will appeal a landmark antitrust ruling and record $613 million fine imposed by European competition authorities that an EU court upheld last month.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/03/2007
Despite Microsoft's efforts so far, incompatibilities still dog the new OS.
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/19/2007
A European court upheld earlier ruling that Microsoft abused its monopoly position on several fronts.
Microsoft this week released a key update to its SOA-based middleware platform—BizTalk.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Chris Kanaracus
- 09/14/2007