Surgient To Support New Microsoft, VMware Virtualization Offerings

A new August offering by virtual lab maker Surgient will add support for two key enterprise virtualization products: VMware ESX Server 3 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. 06/28/2007

Oct. Launch Planned for '.asia' Domain

Internet addresses ending in ".asia" will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October, with general registrations coming in 2008. 06/28/2007

Buy Local Promotion Gets Extension for Back-to-School

Microsoft will extend the current hardware incentive-based iteration of its Buy Local promotion for U.S. System Builders through the back-to-school season, a company executive said this week. 06/28/2007

A Peek Inside Google

A Microsoft employee who is also an ex-Google employee gave some insight into working conditions at his old job, including the perhaps surprising to some fact that Microsoft is a better place to work. 06/28/2007

Microsoft Readies Partner Fix for 'Downgrade Rights' Issue

A Microsoft executive this week confirmed that Microsoft is close to offering a first step to help remedy the problem of Vista "downgrade rights," which posed complications for partners. 06/28/2007

Microsoft Offers $500 Vista PC in India

Microsoft Corp. will sell "affordable" Windows computers aimed at students in India. 06/28/2007

Agency Urges Caution on Net Neutrality

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday recommended against additional regulation of high-speed Internet traffic. 06/28/2007

MCDST Ugrade Exam Goes Live

Earlier this week, Microsoft put exam 70-621 up for general availability. 06/28/2007

Windows Server 2008 CTP Released

The CTP release makes it appear increasingly likely that the successor to Windows Server 2003 will be shipped early next year. 06/27/2007

Google Takes Enterprise Search Appliances to the Channel

Consumer search giant Google is entering a partnership with Ingram Micro Inc. to distribute the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini, according to a Google blog entry on Wednesday. 06/27/2007

Mule ESB Partner Program Launched

MuleSource Inc. has started a Partner Alliance Program based on Mule, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. The program enables qualified channel partners to gain access to the Mule customer base. 06/27/2007

Microsoft Buys All of Engyro, Part of Dundas

Two Microsoft partners closed deals to join Microsoft or to sell their intellectual property to the software giant. 06/26/2007

UPDATED: Vista Desktop Search Fight Gets Uglier

The Microsoft-Google spitting match over desktop search is getting wetter every day, with Google now claiming that Microsoft's remedies don't go far enough, and Microsoft arguing that Google has a bad case of sour grapes. 06/26/2007

Oracle 4Q Profit Surges 23 Percent

Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent as the business software maker harvested more sales from the crop of customers picked up in a $25 billion shopping spree that has buried much of its competition. 06/26/2007

Terracotta Adds to IBM WebSphere Support

Terracotta has bolstered its clustering infrastructure software for Java applications. The company issued an announcement that its Terracotta 2.4 solution, released in May of this year, now supports IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (CE), which is an open source enterprise server solution. 06/26/2007

IT Customer Service Tune-Up

CompTIA has launched a new Customer Service Excellence Program (CSEP) for companies with more than 100 IT service representatives. 06/26/2007

Microsoft Product Roadmap Overhauled in Orlando

Updates announced at the show included the names for the next versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio and new details about the next releases of Windows Server. 06/26/2007

Masters of Disaster

Partners do their best to help customers survive the worst. 06/26/2007

Apple iPhone Hype Machine in Overdrive

Even for a company that's mastered the art of product-launch hoopla, Apple Inc. appears to have pulled out all the stops to propel iPhone hysteria into the stratosphere. 06/26/2007

A Change in Climate in Redmond

The Worldwide Partner Group reorganizes for fiscal year 2008. 06/26/2007

Judge Sides With Microsoft in Vista Search Complaint

A federal judge has sided with Microsoft in Google's most recent complaint that Microsoft remedies to open Vista search up to competitors don't go far enough. 06/26/2007

New Views on Vista

Results of CDW's survey of 753 U.S. IT decision-makers. 06/26/2007

New Domains in Works at Internet Meeting

New Internet addresses, including those entirely in foreign languages, are under review by a key oversight agency, although meetings this week in Puerto Rico are likely to conclude with more questions. 06/25/2007

Composite Enhances Data Virtualization for SOAs

Composite Software is releasing version 4.5 of its Java-based Composite Information Server (CIS) product. In addition, the company is introducing a new product that works with its server to help scale data service deployments called Composite Active Cluster. 06/25/2007

Quest Buying ScriptLogic

Database, application and Windows-management solutions provider Quest Software will acquire ScriptLogic, a provider of Windows-based network management solutions, for roughly $90 million in cash. 06/25/2007

Survey Shows More Than 40 Percent Using Open Source

Nearly 43 percent of more than 600 IT and business professionals from various industries are already using open source software, according to a 2007 Open Source Software Survey conducted by Actuate Corp. 06/25/2007

The Bugs Keep Coming for Safari on Windows

Unless there's a pressing need in your environment, you might want to hold off on installing the beta of Apple's Safari browser for Windows, as every day seems to bring a new bug report. 06/25/2007

Novell Enhances Real-Time Linux

Shipping next month, a maintenance update for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Real Time will enhance the operating system's performance, incorporate high-availability storage and processor support, and provide support for the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.2 server and storage connectivity standard. 06/25/2007

Tidal Rolls Out SOA Monitoring Solution

Tidal Software has released the latest version of its performance monitoring solution that maps applications, traces business processes and tracks service-level agreements in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). 06/25/2007

ScriptLogic Goes to Quest

Vista Way Secure, Microsoft Says

Turnaround Expert, But Which Way?

Risque Ballmer Business

Opera Software Reshuffles After Struggle

Key shareholders in Opera Software ASA have reshuffled the board of directors after a reported power struggle between board members and the company's chief executive and founder, Jon S. von Tetzchner. 06/22/2007

EBay Returns to Google Advertising

After a spat between two of the world's largest Internet companies, online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Friday it would resume running advertising through Google Inc. 06/22/2007

JetBrains Unveils ReSharper 3.0

Tools vendor JetBrains has released ReSharper 3.0, the latest version of its refactoring plug-in for Visual Studio. 06/22/2007

Google Asks Gov't To Fight Censorship

Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide. 06/22/2007

French Bigwigs Told To Ditch BlackBerrys

Trade secrets, and soufflés, subject to leaks via wireless devices. 06/22/2007

Sony Sees Shift From Recovery to Growth

Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer promised Thursday to shift the struggling electronics giant from recovery to growth and to make the PlayStation 3 a profit driver despite its bungled rollout. 06/21/2007

Ohio Gov.: Stolen Tape Had Taxpayer Info

A missing computer backup tape containing personal information on state employees also holds the names and Social Security numbers of 225,000 taxpayers, Gov. Ted Strickland said. 06/21/2007

Cyber Attack Hits Pentagon

The Defense Department took as many as 1,500 computers off line because of a cyber attack, Pentagon officials said Thursday. 06/21/2007

Microsoft Issues June CTP of 'Sandcastle' Documentation Tool

Microsoft has released another community technology preview of Sandcastle, a tool for creating documentation for .NET projects. 06/21/2007

Swiss Internet Terror Trial Opens

A North African man and his wife went on trial Wednesday on charges they ran Web sites that supported al-Qaida-linked groups with videos of people killed by terrorists and information on how to make bombs. 06/21/2007

Backlash Against IP Protection Deals Heating Up

For the past several weeks, there has been a rush among some Linux vendors to ink patent protection deals with Microsoft. But that may have spurred a backlash, as other Linux companies are asserting their independence by refusing to go along with what they see as knuckling under to Microsoft's legal threats. 06/21/2007

Microsoft: Vista Has Fewest Vulnerabilities at 6-Month Mark

Windows Vista, in its first half-year of life, has proven to be an exceptionally secure operating system -- much more secure, in fact, than competing desktop OSes, according to Microsoft. 06/21/2007

France Warns Officials on BlackBerry Use

BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful -- and now, a threat to French state secrets. That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France's corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies. 06/21/2007

Redmond Defends Patchy Record on Security

Apparent Window Live registration problem goes unaddressed. 06/21/2007

Report: News Corp. in Yahoo Talks

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is discussing swapping social networking Web site MySpace for a 25 percent stake in Yahoo Inc., The Times newspaper reported Wednesday. 06/20/2007

UPDATED: Microsoft To Make Changes to Vista Search

Microsoft has agreed to make changes to its search capabilities in Windows Vista, in response to federal anti-competitive charges leveled by Google. The changes will be part of Vista's service pack 1, which Microsoft said it hopes to have ready by the "end of the year." 06/20/2007

About-Face on Vista Virtualization Licensing

Microsoft has done an about-face on virtualization licensing for Windows Vista and decided to maintain the status quo. 06/20/2007