Microsoft Partners With Partners To Promote Early Access to CRM Live

DENVER -- Microsoft is launching a partner-driven program to promote early adoption of Dynamics Live CRM, the company announced Tuesday at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. 07/10/2007

'Launch Wave' of Microsoft Products Coming in 2008

Feb. 27, 2008 promises to be one of the most important dates in Microsoft's 33-year history, as it will release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. 07/10/2007

SOA Trends Indicated in IBM Survey

Attendees at IBM's Impact 2007 event held in May had some interesting opinions on their companies' plans for service-oriented architectures (SOAs). IBM commissioned the Link Group, a marketing research firm, to conduct the survey. The exact number of respondents wasn't disclosed in an IBM press release describing the survey's findings. 07/10/2007

Dell Introduces New Small-Business PCs

Dell Inc. is launching a new line of notebook and desktop personal computers called "Vostro" that are aimed at small businesses with 25 or fewer employees. 07/10/2007

Microsoft Patches Three Critical Flaws

With this week's Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft kicked off its monthly patching exercise with three critical security bulletins. 07/10/2007

Launch Wave' of Microsoft Products Coming in 2008

On Feb. 27, 2008 Microsoft plans to release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. 07/09/2007

Windows Vista SP1 Gets Fast-Tracked

Windows Vista Service Pack (SP)1 is back on track. 07/09/2007

Intel To Buy $218.5M Stake in VMware

Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, will invest $218.5 million in virtualization software maker VMware Inc., the companies announced Monday. 07/09/2007

Google Buys Postini for $625 Million

Google Inc. is buying e-mail security specialist Postini Inc. for $625 million, fortifying the Internet search leader's effort to sell online software services to corporate customers seeking alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s long-dominant products. 07/09/2007

Report: Software Assurance Rankles Customers

Microsoft's Software Assurance (SA) licensing program could be in big trouble, with many customers feeling they're not getting their money's worth, according to a survey from Forrester Research. 07/09/2007

D&H Distributing Opens Canadian Subsidiary

D&H Distributing, the Harrisburg, Pa.-based computer distributor focused on SMB resellers, on Monday opened a subsidiary in Canada. 07/09/2007

Microsoft Reorg To Breathe Life in Live

The Red Ring of Death

Microsoft Loves GPLv3...Not!

3 Critical Fixes Due Tomorrow

Mailbag: Want To Work for Microsoft?, When 'Cheap' Isn't Cheap, More

Google Jr.?

Uniloc Releases Improved Copy Protection Solution

Uniloc USA Inc. has released the next version of its software copy protection solution. The new softAnchor 5.0 suite allows publishers to add macros to their software for product validation and better control of license use. Publishers use softAnchor 5.0 to insert about 30 to 50 lines of code anywhere into their software. The code lets software publishers audit the use of copies of their software and protect against software piracy. 07/06/2007

W3C Releases Web Services Protocol

Last week, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) finalized Web Services Description Language 2.0 (WSDL 2.0) as a W3C recommendation. The action aims to promote greater interoperability and standardization for Web services. WSDL 2.0 is a protocol for defining a Web service, providing information on how the service is called and what to expect in response. 07/06/2007

Microsoft To Converge Its Windows Live Efforts

Microsoft continues to tweak its "Live" services effort, converging its current Windows Live Platform and Windows Live Core efforts, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday afternoon. 07/06/2007

Microsoft Closer to aQuantive Purchase

Microsoft moved one step nearer to its full-force entry into the online advertising market Friday, when a federally mandated waiting period expired. 07/06/2007

Microsoft Plans Canada Software Center

Microsoft Corp. plans to open a software development center in Canada this fall to attract talent and avoid U.S. immigration issues. 07/06/2007

Microsoft Rejects Latest Open Source License

The Microsoft-Novell Linux alliance may have gotten shakier, with Microsoft saying it doesn't recognize the latest version of the standard license for open source software (OSS). 07/06/2007

Microsoft Buys Two More Data Centers

Redmond sets its sights on hosting capacity with latest acquisitions. 07/06/2007

A New Vista Comes Into the World

Marketing campaign gets reborn, kicking and screaming. 07/06/2007

RCP's Guide to Setting Up Shop in Seattle

Learn how to get close to Redmond -- in that other town. 07/06/2007

Three Critical Patches on Tap for Tuesday

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) plans to publish six security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification. 07/05/2007

New-Gen Certifications Retirement Policy Changing

Holders of the premium MCITP or MCPD titles will have to take refresh exam to maintain status; policy to go into effect in about two years. 07/05/2007

Tech Firms Tap Into the 'Green' Movement

Being "green" is all the rage with technology companies these days, but what's not clear is whether or not the environment-friendly approach is bringing in more greenbacks. 07/05/2007

Xbox 360 Repairs Will Cost Microsoft $1B

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it expects to spend more than $1 billion to repair widespread hardware problems in its Xbox 360 video game console after a large number of them broke down. 07/05/2007

Google-DoubleClick Deal Draws Criticism

Europe's major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content. 07/05/2007

Sanyo to Make More Laptop Batteries

Osaka-based electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said Wednesday it will spend 30 billion yen ($245 million) to boost output of lithium-ion batteries for laptop computers. 07/05/2007

Dell Sees Growth in Asia

Dell Inc. expects shipments of personal computers, notebooks and servers in Asia excluding China, Japan and South Korea to grow almost 20 percent in 2007, a company executive said Thursday. 07/05/2007

Microsoft Releases New CTP for ADO.NET Entity Framework

Microsoft has released a new community technology preview of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which allows coders to program against data defined in a conceptual fashion instead of directly interacting with information stored in traditional table-and-column fashion. 07/03/2007

SAP: Unit Made 'Inappropriate Downloads'

Software company SAP AG acknowledged Tuesday that one of its units made "inappropriate downloads" of Oracle Corp. computer code for fixes and support documents, responding to a lawsuit filed by its rival. 07/03/2007

Google Goes Back to Court Over Vista Desktop Search

Google remains undaunted in its quest to become a legal player in the battle to keep Windows Vista's desktop search subject to federal scrutiny. 07/03/2007

Windows Plans on the Wane for Developers

North American software developers are expecting to devote less of their efforts toward developing for the Microsoft Windows operating system, with some of the slack being absorbed by Linux and niche operating systems, according to a survey conducted by Evans Data Corp. 07/03/2007

Tibco Rolls Out New BPM Solution

Tibco Software has issued a new release of its business process management (BPM) solution, called iProcess Suite 10.6. 07/03/2007

iPhone Lure Used in Hacker Exploit

The iPhone hype makes it a natural target -- by scammers looking to sell Apple's first cell phone for a huge markup, and also by hackers looking to add to their bot networks. 07/02/2007

Cyber Attacks Engulf Kremlin's Critics

A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia as the Baltic nation sparred with Russia over a Soviet war memorial. 07/02/2007

Layer 7 Virtualizes SOA Security Solution

Virtualization rocketed to the top of the gotta-have-it technology list a few years ago, primarily as a means of consolidating servers. But since that initial resurgence, vendors have been finding other applications for the technologies that provide a layer of abstraction between hardware systems and the software running on them. 07/02/2007

Massachusetts Considering Microsoft's New Document Format

Massachusetts has decided that Microsoft's latest format may meet its standards. 07/02/2007

Ohio's Laptops Often Stolen or Missing

In Dayton, a state employee returns to work to find a $2,000 computer stolen. In Cleveland, someone walks into an unlocked office and takes a $2,200 laptop belonging to the state auditor's office. 07/02/2007

Vista Ultimate Customers Await Their 'Extras'

Vista Ultimate has been out more than half a year now, and several prominent Windows bloggers have been asking when more Extras are coming. 07/02/2007

Business Process Management: SOA's Reason for Being?

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch. However, some experts have suggested that reuse -- the principal justification in most cost-benefit analyses for SOA -- might amount to just 10 percent. 07/02/2007

Moonlight in Paris

In a move that could broaden the appeal of Microsoft's new Silverlight rich Internet application plug-in to both the .NET and open source communities, a group of developers has demonstrated Silverlight-based multimedia running on a Linux-based system. 07/02/2007

New Linux License To Put the Hurt on Microsoft -- Maybe

Version 3 of the General Public License adds more grist for the mills in legal skirmish over open source software patents. 07/02/2007

Redmond To Make It Easier To Ditch Vista

IT support personnel are getting a simpler way to exercise their "downgrade rights." 07/02/2007

Hackers Hit Microsoft U.K. Web Site

Culprits apparently carried out a SQL injection attack. 07/02/2007

Microsoft's Dynamics Power Play

What does Redmond's recent exec shuffling really mean for its Business Solutions biz? 07/02/2007