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In a move to cater to midsize businesses, Microsoft today announced a Windows Server System bundle aimed at companies with 50 to 250 PCs. The software giant is hoping to gain the traction in the midmarket that it has achieved with its Small Business Server. The Windows Server System offering include...

Microsoft yesterday launched its Digital Image Suite 2006, a package of tools designed to help consumers organize, enhance and share digital images. Microsoft is hoping to gain greater traction in a growing digital imaging market. PMA Marketing Research predicts consumers will take 25 billion digita...

Microsoft is taking a bottom-up approach to customer relationship management with the second release of its CRM software, but one analyst said the software giant won't stay in the small market forever. "It makes sense to come from the bottom," Joe Wilcox, senior analyst, Jupiter Research, told CRM B...

Software engineers at Microsoft's laboratory in Cambridge, England, have developed a new, proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) technology that is being eyed by Hollywood producers as a potential distribution channel for their content. Code-named "Avalanche," the product is said by Microsoft to be a safer ...

Sony BMG has come roaring out of the gate, two days after the Supreme Court ruling that file-sharing programs can be held liable for copyright infringements, announcing a deal with Mashboxx for a legal music-swapping service. The service will charge 99 cents per song and be populated by Sony BMG art...

Microsoft announced Friday that its long-in-the-works Longhorn will enable RSS (really simple syndication) feeds. "The fact that they're announcing it now, keeps them in the news," Laura DiDio, senior analyst, Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It keeps users, developers and competitors very well aw...

EMC and Sun Microsystems yesterday announced agreements on several hardware, software and support initiatives designed to help customers more easily deploy their technologies together. The companies will work to ensure compatibility between the EMC family of networked storage platforms and Sun's Sol...

Microsoft continued its effort to make more third-party security software of its own this week, completing its acquisition of enterprise messaging protection provider Sybari. The deal, announced last February and finalized this week, will result in the availability of Sybari's Antigen software for m...

Microsoft continued its effort to make more third-party security software of its own this week, completing its acquisition of enterprise messaging protection provider Sybari. The deal, announced last February and finalized this week, will result in the availability of Sybari's Antigen software for m...

IT analysis firm Yankee Group is warning that an increasing number of vulnerabilities in security software from major vendors may be putting enterprises and users at risk. The company called for security vendors to make their computer protection products more secure themselves before applications su...

In a move that takes Cisco Systems into the middleware market, the company today unveiled plans to develop technology designed to enable networks to support intelligent decisions based on business policies. Technology developed under the initiative, dubbed Application-Oriented Networking, or AON, al...

Microsoft will release the beta of its long-talked-about Longhorn Server in August, at about the same time as it releases the beta for the Longhorn desktop OS, Senior Vice President Bob Muglia said in an online chat last week. Muglia also suggested that the company may be working on a home version o...

Security software firm Trend Micro announced yesterday it has acquired IP filtering and reputation services provider Kelkea. The company plans to leverage the assets to develop network-level solutions against emerging and evolving threats such as phishing, pharming and botnets-based attacks, and enh...

Microsoft today released 12 new security patches for its Windows operating system and other programs as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday event. Today's batch marks one of the largest bundles of patches since Microsoft rolled out its monthly schedule. Eight bulletins affecting Windows are included i...

Microsoft is edging closer to a release of its long-awaited new operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- with the debut of two technologies expected to be included in the OS, and the announcement of a new suite of applications for next year, Microsoft Office 12.0. "Those areas where Office has got...

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