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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET interoperability efforts with IBM and Sun have slowed, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google.
Q&A Microsoft's chairman compares Linux to Unix in the 1970s and urges people to "be careful" with utility computing.
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the next version of Windows won't necessarily determine the outcome of the jockeying among Microsoft, IBM, Sun and BEA.
PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway has described Microsoft's .NET initiative as the information technology equivalent of asbestos.
Australia's third-largest telecommunications company, AAPT, has been left at the altar so many times that there is understandable scepticism that it will tie the knot in 2009.
Customers and government bodies should focus on products with open standards and realise the pitfalls of open source, argues Scott Petty, Dimension Data Australia COO.
Q&A Microsoft's chairman compares Linux to Unix in the 1970s and urges people to "be careful" with utility computing.
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the next version of Windows won't necessarily determine the outcome of the jockeying among Microsoft, IBM, Sun and BEA.
Microsoft changes the name of its high-end server software for the third time. Windows Server 2003 is scheduled for an April release.
Commentary: Bill Gates is beating the drum for tablets, Smart Display, and Web services - purchased with his US$5bn research budget. The question is: do we want to follow, and can we afford to?
There are a swag-load of instant messaging applications available these days -- we run eight of them through the wringer, to save you the trouble.
Can't we all just get along? No matter which new instant-messaging (IM) client comes along, we still have to switch from one to the next in order to connect with all of our friends and associates. That's still the case with MSN Messenger 4.5, the newest edition of Microsoft's instant messenger.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
Microsoft's Passport, a core piece of .NET, could make you prone to identity theft. A single sign-on might be convenient, but a simple worm could easily nab your name and password.
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