A hypothetical to-do list for Microsoft's hypothetical Yahoo takeover.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 03/01/2008
European Union fined Microsoft 899 million Euros for failure to comply with the EU's 2004 finding that Redmond was engaged in monopolistic practices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/27/2008
Redmond officially rolls out Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles event.
Lattix today is offering the latest version of its large-scale management and rearchitecting solution for service-oriented architectures and complex systems.
Sun Microsystems today said it has completed its $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL and will move aggressively to acquire other open source vendors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/26/2008
IBM today announced the debut of its new System z10 mainframe computer for enterprise data centers.
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.
While Microsoft's announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2008
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
Symark's product suite makes integration a whole lot simpler.
- By Emmett Dulaney
- 02/15/2008
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 Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Microsoft is facing another suitor for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took the wraps off a major new version of Office Live Small Business and launched a new developer program for Office Live.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/12/2008
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.
In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/08/2008