There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft Corp. and its hardware partners are trying to bridge the divide between home computers and TV sets this holiday season with the release of several "media extenders."
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
Microsoft has decided to keep its forerunner, Windows XP, in sales and OEM channels for another five months.
Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to present video advertising that's less annoying to Web surfers.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
IT administrators looking to move from the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 e-mail message server, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2005, are getting a helping hand from PostPath. The company released its One-Step Migration Methodology to help Exchange 5.5 users switch to the PostPath Server 3.0 e-mail and collaboration server.
Microsoft is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.
IBM has rolled out new products to help companies become more efficient and handle bottlenecks in their business processes. The solutions add to IBM's arsenal of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture SOA offerings.
Hackers stole millions of credit card numbers from discount retailer TJX Cos. by intercepting wireless transfers of customer information from two Miami-area Marshalls stores, according to an eight-month investigation by the Canadian government.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/25/2007
Office 2008 for Mac will be available in the U.S. beginning next Jan. 15.
Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a pay package valued about $1.3 million for fiscal 2007, a year in which profit at the world's largest software maker topped $14 billion, according to documents filed Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Dell Inc. announced a deal Monday to launch a retail presence in China by selling computers through the country's biggest chain of electronics stores as it struggles to capture a bigger share of the booming market.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is mulling an investment in Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more, according to a report published Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it has added 20 new advertising clients since the acquisition of online ad company aQuantive closed six weeks ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
A European think tank is recommending to the European Commission that computers sold abroad come without any operating system pre-loaded.