Here are seven powerful predictions for Microsoft's future.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
CA dug into its ranks to replace retiring CEO John Swainson, naming its chairman William McCracken to run the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/29/2010
Public safety managers must begin moving into the cloud, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday at the company's annual Public Safety Symposium.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 01/28/2010
Oracle on Wednesday laid out its plans for integrating Sun's software and hardware systems into its own product lineup.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/28/2010
UC4 Software GmbH unveiled a product on Wednesday aimed at bringing Web services into an automated workload management framework.
Hewlett-Packard today said it is adding to its diverse security services, while bringing them together under a common framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2010
Microsoft is aligning with former rival Intuit to help bring Intuit's large contingent of QuickBooks users into the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/21/2010
A Microsoft official said this week the government must revise out-of-date statutes and lay new legislative groundwork to keep pace with technology.
IBM's hosted e-mail agreement with Panasonic, announced on Thursday, drew swift ire from Microsoft.
IBM expanded its vision for bringing social networking to the enterprise with a preview of new technology at Lotusphere 2010.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2010
At the inaugural meeting of the New York Technology Council, representatives from Google and Microsoft debated their views on how data will be stored and shared in the future.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/15/2010
Panasonic has selected IBM to provide hosted e-mail and collaboration services for its global workforce.
Microsoft and HP disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation datacenter technology and application infrastructure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2010
VMware on Tuesday said it is acquiring Zimbra from Yahoo, extending VMware's reach beyond system virtualization.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/12/2010
CA has acquired Oblicore, a closely held but established provider of software that measures the effect of system uptime on business performance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/12/2010
A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.
Microsoft is starting the initial phase of commercializing its cloud computing platform this month.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/06/2010
HP for the first time is enabling infrastructure and application provisioning services to third-party cloud providers, initially Amazon's EC2.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
Microsoft announced last week that it acquired Opalis Software for an undisclosed amount.