Microsoft let it be known today that it is gaining ground in its lawsuit against Motorola over alleged patent infringements associated with the Android mobile operating system.
A schism between Oracle with its OpenOffice.org productivity suite and The Document Foundation with its similar LibreOffice development effort is apparently beginning to heal.
Microsoft took to Twitter this morning to announce Office 365, the successor to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite with desktop productivity functionality added, will be available for all on June 28.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/03/2011
Microsoft this week announced two toolkit beta test releases for Windows-based deployment and migration planning.
Microsoft showed off its newest operating system, still code-named "Windows 8," at the D9 Conference on Wednesday evening.
According to Google, Jinan, China-based hackers accessed hundreds of users, including U.S. government officials, military personnel, journalists, Chinese political activists and officials of several Asian countries, most of them in South Korea.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/02/2011
According to NetMarketShare, a Web tracking and analytics service provided by Net Applications, Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer finished off May with 12.0 percent of the worldwide browser market.
I'm sensing a theme here.
Microsoft kicked off the keynote presentation at Computex in Taipei today, offering its hardware partners some reasons why they should stick around.
According to aggregate data collected by StatCounter, Microsoft's latest OS ended May with 33.22 percent of the market.
Microsoft may try to move its business customers more toward paying Software Assurance licensing fees in the near future, according to a report.
The W3C announced on Wednesday that the HTML 5 Working Draft has reached its Last Call milestone.
According to Rosario Valotta, an Italian security researcher, a security breach of Internet Explorer could occur if a hacker hijacks session cookies from users' visits to a Web site.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will be available in August, but the city of Redmond will be ready to go live with the new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in July.
Microsoft today opened signups to its community evaluation program (CEP) for testing the beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012).
Private equity firm Oak Hill Partners has acquired Exchange hoster Intermedia for an undisclosed sum and has named former Savvis CEO Phil Koen, as its new chairman and chief executive.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/26/2011
Numara Software released a new user state migration tool today that's designed to help IT pros with their Windows migration woes.
Microsoft on Tuesday appealed an 899-million-euro ($1.3 billion) penalty stemming from a 2004 Windows antitrust action.
Google today has released Chrome version 11.0.696.71 which fixes four vulnerabilities in its browser.
Microsoft spoke today about the new update that will include more than 500 new features and will be available for all Windows Phone 7 devices, including the upcoming Nokia models.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/24/2011