While IBM has previously endorsed the OpenDocument standard, this week it decided to put its money where its public relations message resides and announced that the next version of its Workplace Managed Client will support the format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2005
Microsoft is shipping the second of its “Project Green” – now renamed Microsoft Dynamics – products on schedule, this one its CRM package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/06/2005
To encourage new virtualization scenarios in Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft will sell the new OS with a half-price version of its server virtualization tool.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/06/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 reached its final development milestone on Tuesday when Microsoft released the product to manufacturing. The minor update to Windows Server 2003 will be generally available within 60 days.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/06/2005
After just two releases, Microsoft is trading in its monthly schedule of Windows Vista community technology previews (CTPs) for a new, less predictable schedule of milestone-based CTPs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/01/2005
Licensing changes will give IT a reason to take a hard look at Datacenter Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/01/2005
Microsoft’s announcement last week that it is submitting its Office 12 Open XML formats to a standards body may have assuaged bureaucrats in the Massachusetts governor’s office, but if anything it has escalated the “open” versus “proprietary” debate.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/01/2005
European utility developer 1-abc.net is shipping version 1.0 of another new tool for end users, this one designed to help clean up out of date Windows Registry entries.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/30/2005
Microsoft’s Business Solutions group, along with several ISV partners, announced delivery of a set of Axapta-based, industry-specific ERP solutions.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/30/2005
Virtualization software publisher VMware is shipping version 5.5 of its Workstation product, which adds new support for 64-bit memory addressing on AMD and Intel systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/30/2005
Supercomputer stalwart Cray Inc. disclosed this week that Chief Scientist Burton Smith, a specialist in large-scale, parallel computing architectures, is heading to Microsoft.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/29/2005
Microsoft's announcement that it will submit its Office Open XML schemas to a European standards body has apparently softened the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' stance regarding document storage formats.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/29/2005
Microsoft revises Partner Competency, splitting it into two tracks for technical implementers and security management partners.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/29/2005
Sales of servers continued at top acceleration in the third quarter, partly driven by customers' increasing deployments of virtualization technologies, while Linux and Windows servers further eroded Unix's high-end turf, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/29/2005
ADXStudio releases content management system for .NET Framework 2.0.
Alero Technology has announced Alero for SharePoint, a collaborative solution for mobile offices that integrates with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2003 to provide repository, content, process and integration capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
Real Enterprise Solutions (RES) plans to ship this month an update to its PowerFuse unified management package for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
Information lifecycle management protection vendor Atempo is shipping an addition to its Time Navigator suite of tools aimed at providing security and compliance for data storage.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
In the midst of the acrimonious debate regarding whether Microsoft’s Office Open XML file format is really open or is instead proprietary, the company will submit its schemas to an important European international standards organization.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005
Microsoft quietly announced this week that it has released Beta 2 of BizTalk Server 2006 for download and the product remains on schedule.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/22/2005