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  • Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

    As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.

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    This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight.

  • Jobs' Flash-trashing signals Silverlight for iPhone?

    At Apple's shareholder meeting yesterday, CEO Steve Jobs took a bat to Adobe's Flash -- leading to speculation the door is open for Microsoft's Silverlight on the iPhone.

  • Microsoft to release Office, Windows Server APIs

    Microsoft on Thursday said it will make application programming interfaces (APIs) for Office and Windows Server available free of charge, in a move designed to make its products work better with software from other providers, including open-source communities.

  • IBM breathes US$1.5bn into its security business

    IBM has announced it will spend US$1.5 billion on security product development and marketing in 2008, and its US$1.3 billion acquisition of ISS will integrate into IBM Global Technology Services.

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    Sun's $4.1 billion buyout of StorageTek is a huge bet: It's the last cash deal that size Sun will be able to make.

  • IBM to bring Eclipse tools to desktop applications

    IBM on Monday detailed a line of programming tools meant to create a market of customized add-ons for its Lotus Workplace desktop applications.

  • Sun reluctant to make Java open source

    Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said.

  • Time waits for no one, not even Microsoft

    Microsoft sees its near-term future as a series of "waves" of software that are key to its growth over the next couple of years. But with those waves slow to reach shore, the company--and its customers--may feel like they're caught in a riptide.

  • Sun prepares Java server update

    Sun Microsystems will deliver a full-featured version of its Java server product line in the second half of next year, a Sun executive said on Thursday.

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  • Longhorn: Hurry up and wait

    Although Microsoft is looking to rope in Longhorn developers now, the company knows it's in for a long ride. The operating system is years away from being finished.

  • Microsoft makes P2P play

    Microsoft introduced additions to Windows XP designed to make the operating system better tuned for peer-to-peer applications.

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