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Microsoft Pledges To Open Up Some Software - CNNMoney.com Microsoft Pledges To Open Up Some SoftwareCNNMoney.com - 1 hour agoHoping to appease antitrust regulators in the European Union, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on Thursday said it would work to make its software products more interoperable with those of its competitors.Micros Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Microsoft opens key software details to rivals REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp, faced with regulatory concerns in Europe and customers struggling with complex computer systems, said on Thursday it would publish critical information so rival programs can work better with Windows, Office and other major products. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |
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Microsoft security maturing fast One year ago, Microsoft was defending the quality of its products, battling with the world's largest security vendors over features in its next-generation platforms, and pitching the company's nascent promise as a provider of IT systems-defense tools at the annual RSA Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft, Eclipse finally playing nice. What's in store? Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, used last year's EclipseCon conference to criticize Microsoft's long-time lack of participation in the open-source community. Microsoft, he said, sent representatives to the conference every year who alwa Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's post-Gates management team Though Bill Gates leaves his full-time duties at Microsoft on Friday, he remains nonexecutive chairman and will participate in select projects at the direction of Microsoft's current executive management team. Below is a rundown of who they are and what some of their Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft Opens Up To Outsiders - Forbes KOMOMicrosoft Opens Up To OutsidersForbes - 2 hours agoMicrosoft has hired another outsider to fill a key executive role--one more sign that the software giant's promote-from-within culture is fading.Former Disney Executive Joins Microsoft New York TimesMicroso Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Microsoft's ISO win may worsen its antitrust woes Microsoft may have won a year-long quest to make its OOXML (Office Open XML) document format an ISO-recognized international standard, but claims of foul play in the voting process may come back to haunt the software giant when the European Commission concludes its Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft open policy faces scrutiny Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, decided it was time to make peace.That's one reason, according to Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's deputy general counsel and vice president of intellectual property and li Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft eyes management as key to virtualization Microsoft is targeting system management as a way to differentiate itself from competitors in the virtualization market, the company said Tuesday.Anticipating that the market for virtualization software, such as Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft could stumble in quest for ad speed Microsoft executives said very little on Friday about the undeniable challenges of integrating the company's Internet division with Yahoo, largely avoiding the proverbial elephant in the room that could delay or, in some cases, eliminate benefits of the deal. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft Opens Up, EU Is Skeptical REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will share more information about its products and technology in an effort to make it work better with rivals' software and meet the demands of antitrust regulators in Europe. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > WashingtonPost |
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Microsoft to offer Web-streamed Office Worried by the small but growing number of small businesses and consumers switching from Microsoft Office to cheaper or free online alternatives such as Google Apps, Microsoft plans to arm a key cohort of its formidable legion of partners to help fight the threat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Ozzie is key to Microsoft's success against Google The departure of Microsoft's founder and iconic leader Bill Gates comes at a pivotal time in the company's history as it struggles to compete with Google, the architect of the new Web economy and perhaps the company's most formidable foe ever. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft Hyper-V now available Microsoft on Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization technology, a day after it was widely reported the software was about to go into final release.People can now download Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 on Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's options, post-Yahoo Poor Steve Ballmer. Having yanked his offer to buy Yahoo, Microsoft Corp.'s CEO is left to run a $57 billion company that is on track for its annual orgy of profits and continues to dominate several software spheres. And he still gets to decide how -- or even if -- th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: iPhone 3G, DNS flaw, Microsoft's cloud Apple stole the IT news show yet again this week with the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G in 22 countries. But there was other news as well, including warnings that a DNS vulnerability really is serious and the ouster by VMware's board of cofounder and CEO Diane Greene Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's bid for FAST bolsters enterprise search In November, Microsoft representatives began to comment that the enterprise search market had reached "a tipping point"; on Tuesday, the company backed up that claim with a bundle of cash, offering to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer (F Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.CEO Steve Ballmer made the offer in a letter to Yahoo's board of di Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft reveals details of new small-business OS Microsoft revealed on Wednesday details of the next version of its Windows OS for small businesses and formally introduced a new product line aimed at SMBs.Microsoft Windows SBS (Small Business Server) 2008, fo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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E.U. has guarded reaction to Microsoft open-source move The European Commission gave a guarded welcome to Microsoft's pledge on Thursday for "greater transparency" in its development and business practices.Microsoft's promise to open up more APIs to proprietary softw Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |