Project Albany Moves Into Google Turf

Microsoft revealed "Albany," a consumer-oriented hosted service that provides Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications, plus security and collaboration tools. 04/18/2008

SQL Server 2005 SP3 Expected in Summer '08

Microsoft announced through two blogs that it plans to release the next service pack to SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 3 (SP3). 04/17/2008

BizTalk RFID Mobile Unveiled

Microsoft today described its new platform to help developers more easily create mobile applications that make use of radiofrequency identification technology. 04/17/2008

Imagine Cup '08 Heads to Los Angeles

Software development competition finalists compete to move on to global finals in Paris, France. 04/17/2008

Avnet Issues Earnings Warning

Ingram's Seismic Shift for SaaS

N-able Has Free Offering for Partners

New Channel Head at HP

Avnet Warns of Disappointing Earnings

Avnet Inc., the large Phoenix-based technology distributor, warned this week that earnings for its third quarter of 2008 would fall below management expectations. 04/16/2008

MySQL Keynote: An Open Source Love Fest

Sun Microsystems's acquisition of MySQL was "a billion-dollar vote for the LAMP stack." 04/16/2008

Vista SP1 Expands Language Support, but Hits USB Snag

As of yesterday, Vista Service Pack 1 is now generally available in all 36 supported languages. 04/16/2008

Redmond Touts 'World's Cheapest Laptop'

New line to be called MiLeap H. 04/16/2008

Execs Exit

String of high-ranking Microsoft departures continues. 04/16/2008

XP, Vista and the Long Run for Microsoft

Microsoft Lays out Plan for Embedded Windows

...that includes some potentially confusing re-branding. 04/16/2008

Citrix To Launch XenDesktop May 20

Citrix Systems announced Monday that its new enterprise desktop virtualization product, XenDesktop, will debut next month. 04/15/2008

Report: Another Windows Exec Exits

All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley reported Monday that William Poole, one of the Windows executives who oversaw the development of Vista, has left the company. 04/15/2008

XP SP3 Release Rumors Continue

Rumors that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will appear this month continue to flourish. 04/15/2008

XML Database Server Up for Common Criteria Certification

Mark Logic Corp. has submitted its Extensible Markup Language (XML) database server for Common Criteria certification. 04/15/2008

Microsoft Courts Developers for Re-Branded Windows Embedded Software

In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack. 04/15/2008

Vista Credential Inching Toward 20K

Windows Vista might be getting dinged in the press lately, but it's not stopping anyone from seeking the MCTS: Vista -- Configuration certification. In fact, the title appear to be one of the hottest of the new-generation MCP exams. 04/15/2008

Bizarre Love Rectangle: Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and News Corp.

The cast of characters grows in the Yahoo buyout saga. 04/15/2008

Google and Salesforce.com: Now, That's SaaS-y!

Probably won't make a dent against Dynamics, though. 04/15/2008

CIOs: IT Budgets Declined in Q1

Initial numbers are down, but growth is expected. 04/15/2008

Gartner Predicts Doom for Big, Fat Windows

Virtualization giveth, and taketh away. 04/15/2008

Google and Salesforce Ratchet Up the CRM Competition

In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions. 04/14/2008

SQL Server 2008 To Offer Spatial Data Type Support

sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing. 04/14/2008

Real Security Needed for Virtual Environments

It's the topic do jour at the RSA conference. 04/14/2008

Microsoft Builds a Simple OS

Singularity is a stripped-down, built-from-scratch OS. 04/14/2008

Windows Client Collapse?

Gartner says only virtualization can save Windows. 04/14/2008

Redmond Helps Hardware Gurus Innovate

Enter the BEE3. 04/14/2008

CIOs See Declining IT Budgets in Q1

About a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey released by Gartner this month. 04/11/2008

Virtualization May Help With Windows Bloat

The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained. 04/11/2008

Vista Credential Inching Toward 20K

Microsoft's latest tally of MCPs shows MCTS: Vista-Configuration to be one of the hotter certifications. 04/10/2008

Yahoo-AOL Talks Rumored To Oppose Microsoft Bid

Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, initiated at the end of January, today unleashed media reports suggesting that shifting coalitions are forming that could decide Yahoo's fate. 04/10/2008

Symantec: Online Security Concerns Growing in the Workplace

Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace. 04/10/2008

Borland Debuts Silk 2008 Test Suite

The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software. 04/10/2008

Forefront 'Stirling': Microsoft Offers Its Protection

Whether it's an offer partners can't refuse is up for some debate. 04/10/2008

Microsoft Plays UC Matchmaker

A Redmond official in-the-know talks about UC partner recruitment. 04/10/2008

mindSHIFT Snaps up groupSPARK Owner

Ready your CAPS keys. 04/10/2008

Windows Live OneCare 2.5 Beta Released

Microsoft's automated security suite for home users and small businesses is available for testing from the Microsoft Connect Web site. 04/09/2008

Assess Security and Boost Innovation, Says RSA Exec

Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference 2008, his company's namesake information security conference, yesterday (April 8) in San Francisco with a warning. 04/09/2008

Yahoo Angers Microsoft by Proposing Google Ad Test

Yahoo issued an announcement today that it plans to conduct a limited test of Google's ad search solution. 04/09/2008

Microsoft Releases Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP

Microsoft today released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 at the RoboBusiness conference in Pittsburgh. 04/09/2008

IBM Debuts Mashup Tools

New products encourage "mixing data" for building apps. 04/09/2008

Google Cranks Up App Engine

Vista SP1 Reboot No Longer Endless

At least that's one less SP1 problem to deal with. 04/09/2008

A Little Reader Feedback

Readers chime in on OOXML's ISO milestone, and Microsoft's apparent manhandling of Avistar. 04/09/2008

Microsoft Rolls Out 8 Patches for 10 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft rolled out five "critical" and three "important" patches for Windows Server 2008, Vista, Office, IE and other software. 04/08/2008

'Stirling' Beta Security Solution Released

Microsoft's released a public beta version of an integrated security solution, code-named "Stirling." 04/08/2008