Microsoft is rolling out new and updated tools to help customers migrate their Lotus Notes and Domino applications to its own collaboration platform based on Office and its SharePoint Services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2006
Microsoft announced yesterday that three manufacturers -- Casio, DigiPoS Systems Group and HP -- will sell point-of-sale terminals pre-loaded with Microsoft Point of Sale software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2006
It may seem like Microsoft has scaled every peak, but the software giant is playing an important game of catch-up with Yahoo! and rival Google in the area of search engine advertising.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/13/2006
From the business wires: a tool pack for spotting security holes in software, a database query and reporting tool, and 10GbE Layer 4-7 switches.
Microsoft to waive MCT program fees for new candidates who join prior to start of 2006 program.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/12/2006
German utility developer 1-abc.net announced it is shipping a bundle containing four of its increasingly popular end-user Web tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/12/2006
ScriptLogic says it is shipping a tool meant to improve how desktop software is packaged for installation across an enterprise.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/12/2006
A year after first disclosing its internal “Project Elixir,” Microsoft has begun releasing sample code and documentation so that developers can use it as a pattern to design their own integrated front-end and back-end systems around Outlook 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/12/2006
Microsoft plans to work more closely with nearly every Certified and Gold Certified partner in 2006 even as the software giant aims to dramatically increase the number of partners in those top two tiers of the Microsoft Partner Program, according to industry analysts familiar with Microsoft's plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/11/2006
Symantec this week announced it has completed its purchase of enterprise security compliance software maker BindView.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/11/2006
Microsoft has a formal new program to lure independent software vendors from Linux and Unix to Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/11/2006
The same day that Apple trotted out the first in its line of Intel-based iMacs, Microsoft recommitted to supporting Apple going forward, the company said at this week’s MacWorld in San Francisco.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/11/2006
The Microsoft Partner Program got high marks from industry analysts at IDC in a recent survey comparing the channel programs of 25 top software vendors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/11/2006
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is slightly modifying its support lifecycle to provide what it calls “more predictability” for customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/10/2006
Remember that old gasoline ad about putting a “tiger in your tank?” How about Windows in your gas pump?
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/10/2006
Apple CEO Steve Jobs debuted the first new iMacs based on Intel CPUs at the company’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday -- two of them available immediately.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/10/2006
Microsoft looks to electronic musician Robert Fripp to create the sounds of the next Windows OS.
Storage maker EMC acquires IT services firm Internosis.
From the business wires: a Group Policy security extension, a load testing tool for Web apps, USB flash drives with LCD displays, and Windows Media Player 11.
The focus of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is, as you might expect, consumer electronics. But amid the smart watches, television-ready cell phones and movie download services were a few tidbits sure to impact IT in the coming year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/05/2006