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Article | 4/03/2009 Microsoft devising Office for netbooks

Microsoft is bending its Office franchise toward netbooks and is developing packages that are unique to that market, according to the head of the comp...

Article | 19/02/2009 No Microsoft phone, executive says

Microsoft stated emphatically Monday that it would not be building a phone; instead it would roll out services and rely on partners to supply the hard...

Article | 21/01/2009 Lotus Notes/iPhone users to get real-time e-mail access

IBM/Lotus for the first time will provide users of the iPhone -- and other mobile devices that support ActiveSync -- with real-time access to their e-...

Article | 9/01/2009 Windows Server 2008 R2 beta airs

Lost in the Windows 7 hype, Microsoft also released the beta of Windows Server 2008 R2, which is the companion to the client OS.

Article | 3/12/2008 SP2 beta for Windows Server 2008, Vista available

Microsoft Tuesday gave its MSDN and TechNet subscribers access to the beta of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and will make t...

Article | 17/11/2008 Google, MS take voice, social-networking shots at each other

Google and Microsoft last week traded counter-punches over voice and social networking tools as the two continue to battle each other over emerging te...

Article | 13/11/2008 Microsoft kicks off next era of small business software

Microsoft Wednesday released an updated bundle of infrastructure servers for small business and its first-ever offering tailored to midsized businesse...

Article | 10/11/2008 MS touts Windows 7 integration with Windows Server

Microsoft next week will distribute a pre-beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 to a select group of testers and highlight the software's virtualization capa...

Article | 6/11/2008 Firefox plug-in takes address book up a notch

Sxip, which develops the free single sign-on plug-in for Firefox called Sxipper, is working to revolutionize the use of address books by helping Web s...

Article | 25/09/2008 Microsoft confirms pre-beta Windows 7 for PDC attendees

Microsoft Wednesday squelched speculation on when the public would get its hands on Windows 7 code by confirming that attendees at its Professional De...

Article | 24/09/2008 Windows 7: Seven developments you should know about

One stone-cold fact about Windows 7 is that we need more stone-cold facts in order to understand the new operating system that is likely to arrive in ...

Article | 27/08/2008 Mozilla garners praise over Firefox security feature

The debate over the self-signed certificate issue in Firefox 3.0 has fostered an add-on from Carnegie Mellon researchers and it seems a prevailing tid...

Article | 22/08/2008 Firefox SSL-certificate debate gets gnarly

Debate is reaching a fever pitch over a new security feature in Firefox 3.0 that throws out a warning page to users when a Web site's SSL certificate ...

Article | 11/08/2008 Linux gets embedded

The computing industry is familiar with the low-cost lab known as the garage, a historic hot-bed for innovation, and this week LinuxWorld had its own ...

Article | 8/08/2008 IBM exec predicts the future of Linux, open source

With LinuxWorld showcasing the popularity of the open source operating system, and with open source in general finding its legs in the enterprise, Bob...