Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Monday a technical and legal collaboration, the latest step in the software giant's ongoing program to partner with open-source companies.
Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems, NASA and others have teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University to make software more reliable, secure and less buggy.
Before you go outside for expertise, you should consider the benefits of spending the money you had budgeted for a consultant on training your in-house staff to handle not only the project at hand but also others down the road.
A group of Australian University students, including one of Australia's most well-known technology bloggers, has progressed to the finals of the Microsoft-sponsored Imagine Cup software development competition in Paris.
Microsoft said on Wednesday in the US that it had finished work on SQL Server 2008, the latest version of its database software.
Trying to understand the logic behind Microsoft's development decisions is a bit like S&M: it's a painful activity probably best left to others. But a recent example from the storage world does suggest something about Microsoft's "people will beat up on us regardless" dilemma.
If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
Most people agree that IBM's Lotus Notes product is one of the most advanced and popular collaboration suites out there.
While Sun Microsystems went to great efforts to portray Scott McNealy's stepping down from the CEO role as a natural transition and part of a well-thought out succession plan, it was clearly not something the company had chance to chat to its printers about.
Do you have a blog that mentions Australian telecommunications?
Visual Studio Team System provides the tools a team needs for every collaborative development purpose. The downside is that Microsoft is once again going too far in deciding how we should do things. Will it work for your team?
Before you go outside for expertise, you should consider the benefits of spending the money you had budgeted for a consultant on training your in-house staff to handle not only the project at hand but also others down the road.
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.
As Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid passes, the tech world is still waiting for information from either company on their wedding plans.
Much of the future success of Adobe Systems hinges on the work done by its Platform Business Unit, which is headed by Kevin Lynch, the company's chief software architect.
Microsofts technical team are restless and always pushing, pushing, pushing, to drive innovation, according to the companys CEO Steve Ballmer, who was speaking at a luncheon in Sydney today.
User Account Control (UAC), the 'annoying' security feature in Windows Vista, will not stop malware from infecting PCs, according Roger Grimes, a member of Microsoft's software security team.
Avaya and Lenovo have announced a partnership to enhance IP communications on ThinkPad notebooks, the companies announced on Wednesday.
According to court documents, the founder of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit fought a hard battle to keep Mac Office 97 alive.
Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications such as a word processor or spreadsheet at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.
The StorCenter Pro NAS 450r is a generously-specified appliance running Windows Storage Server 2003. While it scores on performance, it's pricey and lacks capacity.
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