Microsoft has completed its purchase of application virtualization vendor Softricity, the company said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/20/2006
Microsoft announced this week it will cooperate with a leading Linux open source developer to provide interoperability between Windows Longhorn Server and Xen virtualization technology for Linux.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2006
Virtualization expert VMware makes available a free server tool, Microsoft expands virtualization licensing for SA customers, and the EU fines MS millions and threatens to seek more.
Microsoft announced this week it has acquired Winternals Software LP, a well-known vendor of enterprise systems recovery and data protection solutions for Windows, along with the company's associated freeware site Sysinternals.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/18/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have formed a four-year alliance to develop and sell products that aim to give people more sophisticated
ways to communicate with each other.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/18/2006
Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are beginning a limited test of plans to make their instant messaging systems work together.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2006
European Union regulators fines Redmond and warns that the company needs to make sure it doesn't get into the same trouble again.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/12/2006
Microsoft on Wednesday at its Velocity 2006 partner conference in Boston debuted a desktop virtualization licensing plan for Windows Vista Enterprise in hopes of generating more interest in its Software Assurance program.
The EU fined Microsoft Corp. $357 million and threatened more penalties, saying the company failed to obey a 2004 antitrust order to share technical information with rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/12/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s customers will never again face as long a wait between new versions of Windows software as they're enduring now, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer vowed Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/12/2006
Microsoft Corp. issued seven patches to fix a variety of flaws, five of which the company has deemed "critical" -- its highest security rating.
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/11/2006
Ballmer takes wraps off hosted CRM app at partner confab.
Microsoft Corp.'s customers will never again face as long a wait between new versions of Windows software as they're enduring now, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer vowed Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/11/2006