Applications

In a move to woo Microsoft and HP customers, Sun Microsystems released an update to its Java-based business application suite. Sun Java Enterprise System (JES) Release 3, its flagship enterprise infrastructure software, is available for US$140 per employee per year. The enhanced version provides mul...

IBM today announced upgraded versions of its WebSphere software and support offerings. Big Blue hopes its WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server Express software will help the company get deeper into the small and medium sized business (SMB) market. Scott Cosby, program directo...

Symantec released the public beta version of its integrated Internet security solution today, which provides broad protection from spyware and adware to home users. The need to identify and eradicate spyware programs will drive anti-spyware software revenues from US$12 million in 2003 to $305 millio...

Symantec released the public beta version of its integrated Internet security solution today, which provides broad protection from spyware and adware to home users. The need to identify and eradicate spyware programs will drive anti-spyware software revenues from US$12 million in 2003 to $305 millio...

OPINION

How Linux Saved Microsoft

I've been looking back this week and recalling almost a decade ago when a little company called Netscape prematurely slapped Microsoft upside the head and by so doing better positioned Microsoft for the future. Granted, I'm sure Microsoft would have loved to avoid the related litigation that contin...

Microsoft is rounding up some attention for its next-generation operating system known as Longhorn, with Microsoft veteran and platform vice president Jim Allchin touting security and simplicity improvements and signaling another beta release of the next Windows, set for a conference later this mont...

After suffering a string of multi-million dollar court settlements with rivals large and small -- including Sun Microsystems last year and more recently Gateway -- Microsoft may now face setbacks for its next-generation Windows operating system known as Longhorn. A court injunction was issued agains...

Microsoft yesterday released the public beta of its Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). The application marks Microsoft's first foray into disk-backed backup and recovery. Formerly codenamed Data Protection Server, the software is designed to integrate disk-to-disk and near-contin...

In a victory for mobile operators, MPEG LA, which includes electronics giants Sony and Philips Electronics, said today it will cut its proposed antipiracy software royalties by one-third per electronic device. The decision marks the group's response to feedback that high tariffs could stifle the gro...

Microsoft yesterday released its monthly security updates, which on this week's "Patch Tuesday" included fixes for the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer (IE), MSN Messenger, Exchange Server and Word. The company designated five of the patches as critical and three as important. Analyst ...

In a move to jumpstart their chances in the software ecosystem, Microsoft today said it would license its intellectual property to eight high-growth IT firms. The announcement marks a shift in the software giant's policy of licensing only to larger corporations and governments. Microsoft is licensin...

Microsoft today announced it has filed eight lawsuits against computer system builders and resellers for alleged distribution of counterfeit, illicit and unlicensed software and software components. This action follows similar action in November 2004 against eight other dealers. Defendants in each c...

As computer users get more sophisticated, so too do the schemes to ensnare them. Security company Sophos warned Friday that a bogus Web site, set up to look like the Microsoft Windows Update page, was luring Windows users into downloading a Trojan horse. The scammers sent e-mails with subject lines ...

Microsoft plans to provide eight patches, some of them critical, when it delivers its monthly batch of security updates next Tuesday. In a notice posted to its Web site, Microsoft said critical fixes for Windows, Office, MSN Messenger and Exchange would be released. Five of the eight patches are for...

Computer Associates made Concord Communications an offer it couldn't refuse, announcing it would pay US$17 per share -- a 71 percent premium -- for the performance management software company. CA will lay out $330 million in cash and assume $20 million of Concord's debt. Concord has been struggling ...

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