The University of Western Sydney (UWS) has prepped itself for a Windows Vista roll-out while many in the industry are getting ready for the arrival of Microsoft's next operating system in line, Windows 7
Microsoft has boosted its Australian headcount for the second year in a row, new documents filed with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission have revealed.
The University of Technology Sydney today revealed plans to dump its current Sun ONE-based email system for staff use and adopt Microsoft's Exchange.
Eleven counterfeiters have been given jail sentences of between one and a half and six and a half years by a Chinese court after being found guilty of producing fake Microsoft software.
While most of the excitement concerning Windows and Office centres around the next full versions of the products, Microsoft is also working on the next service pack updates for each offering.
Servers hosting the new version of OpenOffice.org have crashed, under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office productivity suite.
Diversified IT products and services company Data#3 this week said it was in the middle of a two-year internal software and systems revamp, including roll-outs of Office 2007 and Salesforce.com.
Although a public test version of Windows 7 is still at least a month away, Microsoft has hit a key internal milestone, according to several Windows enthusiast sites.
Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK has moved to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in time for the new academic year.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has completed a deployment of Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite to 38,000 desktops a year after giving Google Apps the thumbs down.
The federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has flagged plans to replace a desktop computer supply contract held until recently by Dell, as part of a broader move to Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Microsoft admits it had no knowledge of software standards until deep into its bid to get Office Open XML approved by the International Organization for Standardization -- but there are no regrets over its tactics during the process.
Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP.
The official standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format could be delayed after a formal objection letter was lodged. The letter claimed that OOXML's approval process " harmed the reputations of both ISO and IEC.
Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues but Microsoft refuses to admit that ODF has won the document format war.
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