Microsoft will launch an operating system for the 'cloud' in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London on Wednesday.
HP's ProCurve division and Microsoft have developed a way for software products from both companies to work together to produce what they claim is a complete system for managing security.
Hewlett Packard is reportedly considering building an alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows, based on Linux.
Microsoft's Windows Live services experienced a significant outage on Tuesday, leaving many users unable to get to their Hotmail inboxes.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) revealed yesterday that its Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) will be operational by the end of the year, as final tests are conducted on the platform.
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Google stitched up some gaping holes in its desktop search software recently but the nature of the tool's design means that the contents of users' hard drives will remain under constant threat of exposure.
Most people agree that IBM's Lotus Notes product is one of the most advanced and popular collaboration suites out there.
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Check out this photo gallery for the first official screenshots of Microsoft's successor to Vista Windows 7. The software giant debuted Windows 7 to the world at its Professional Developers Conference in the United States this week.
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of small business tools has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta.
This is an impressive update to Microsoft's Small Business Server that packs a big punch. However, it may be overkill for a lot of companies and isn't quite as easy to manage as it first appears.
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Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
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