New Zealand’s Postal Services Group (PSG), a business inside New Zealand Post Group that connects businesses and the community through mail and online services, is moving from Microsoft to Google Apps, security, compliance and web filtering. PSG has signed a three-year agreement with F...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) doesn’t like Microsoft, doesn’t like software patents, it especially doesn’t like Microsoft’s patents, and it doesn’t trust the two of them in the same room together. It’s convinced that Microsoft is eventually going to sue any open source develop...

Microsoft recently announced it was going to start opening up its own retail shops to go head to head, sort of, with Apple and its own hip and very successful retail outlets. Someone has now slipped the guys at Gizmodo a Powerpoint presentation from the retail design firm engaged to co...

Microsoft has signed another one of those Linux software patent agreements that infuriate the Linux faithful. This one’s with Japanese-based Melco Holdings, the parent company of Buffalo Inc, and the Buffalo Group. Microsoft said the patent covenants specifically apply to Buffa...

To get the European Commission off its back and avoid another mammoth fine, Microsoft has offered to distribute other people's browsers with Windows, exactly what Opera, Google and Mozilla want. It's not something Microsoft wants to do but the company finds itself over a barrel. ...

Likewise is taking another step in advancing mixed networks with open source software. Its new Likewise-CIFS software, currently in beta, will enable sharing files among Linux, Mac and Windows computers using Server Message Block, the popular networking protocol for file and print ...

Microsoft Monday released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the GPL 2 license, the mother of all open source licenses written when open source was still a pup by the brassbound Free Software Foundation.

Microsoft Thursday came in with revenues over a billion dollars short of Wall Street projections, fooling punters who had run the stock up and perhaps explaining why it RTM'd Windows 7 24 hours before - to cushion the blow even if 7 won't be out until October 22 and even if Microsoft d...

Microsoft released Windows 7 Build 7600 to manufacturing Wednesday afternoon, a day ahead of its numbers. Windows Server 2008 RC2 also RTM’d. Microsoft said the gold code will start going out to OEMs in a couple of days. It’s sticking with October 22 as the date for general availabilit...

DataParts for SharePoint 2007 is an exciting new family of Web Parts from Software FX that enable you to add business intelligence, data visualization and analysis to your SharePoint portals. With DataParts, it's never been easier to create your SharePoint Reports and Dashboards. With ...

On July 30th @ 8pm I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User’s Group. I encourage you to come and bring your questions on Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services.. Brad Abrams - Silverlight ready for business and .Net RIA Services - Thursday July 30, 2009, 8:00PM PDT ...

A search and online advertising deal between Yahoo and Microsoft is imminent - unless of course it's blown off course again, according to Yahoo know-it-all All Things Digital, the Dow Jones blog. Under the circumstances blogger Kara Swisher isn't guaranteeing a deal will happen thou...

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, a k a SingTel, Singapore's largest phone company and a major local player in broadband Internet services, is going into the cloud business, intending to establish Singapore as a regional cloud computing hub. It's launched Singapore's first integrate...

Microsoft is supposed to open its first retail stores this fall, presumably before the October 22 roll out out of Windows 7 and some of them are supposed to be “right next door to Apple stores,” according COO Kevin Turner. Remember Microsoft said it was going retail in February when it...

Those deep discounts that Microsoft was briefly offering on pre-orders of Windows 7 in North America and Japan are no more. As of Saturday upgrades to Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional are now officially selling for their suggested list prices of $120 and $200, respecti...

Microsoft’s volume licensees will be able to start ordering Windows 7 on September 7, six weeks or so ahead of general release on October 22. Early birds will also qualify for discounts of 15%–33% depending on the size of the order, according to Windows SVP Bill Veghte. The six-month p...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly reacted to Google’s Chrome OS playing to an audience at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference the other day. “Who knows what that thing is,” he said. “To me, it’s highly interesting that it won’t happen for a year and a half and they already an...

Evidently Citrix (acting as a proxy for its pal Microsoft?) has found that free works and gets it traction in the marketplace because it’s going out with a free version of its Essentials management widgetry for Hyper-V after making its XenServer hypervisor free four or five months ago ...

Microsoft's Amazon-like Azure public cloud is four months away from going live. The company confirmed Tuesday the widely held supposition that Azure would go commercial at its Professional Developers Conference in mid-November. Microsoft also deigned to start explaining what it's...

The record-setting $1.45 billion antitrust fine that the European Commission slapped Intel with in May for AMD abuse soured the company's Q2 results causing it to post an extraordinary loss of $398 million, or seven cents a share. Otherwise, under the present economic circumstances,...

Intel Corporation today reported second-quarter revenue of $8.0 billion. Excluding the effects of the European Commission fine, the company had non-GAAP operating income of $1.4 billion, net income of $1.0 billion and EPS of 18 cents. On a GAAP-basis, the company reported an operating ...

Expanding further on its recent cloud services announcements, CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced a collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to utilize the Windows Azure platform. The platform provides a wide range of Internet services that can be accessed from on-premises or in the cloud. In re...

This morning at its Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft was only prepared to say that its lightweight Office Web versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote are coming but are not here yet. They will reportedly be available to select testers in August. When they will be availabl...

Microsoft is in negotiations with the European Commission, according to Bloomberg, trying to come to terms on what it will cost the company to get out from under the latest round of antitrust charges related to its browser and Office software. The wire service, citing four unidentified...

Microsoft threw the switch on its new mega data center in Dublin on July 1 and expects to do same for the one it’s built in Chicago on July 20. The facilities are meant to support the company’s Online, Live and cloud services. Dublin is Microsoft’s first mega site outside the U.S. It c...

The commentariat seems to think that the reason Google suddenly rushed out its Chrome OS announcement is because Microsoft is going to step on Google Apps’ toes Monday July 13 when it will supposedly say something about the Office 2010 beta and at least demonstrate, if not release, its...

Microsoft named Steven Sinofsky president of its embattled Windows Division on the very day Google announced plans to build an operating system meant to destroy Windows.

Google’s not the only one spouting the old Netscape line about the browser as platform or trying to evolve it into an operating system that can support an increasingly sophisticated web environment. Microsoft, which has yet to dignify word of Google’s proposed Chrome OS with a response...

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered, and entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate. So it is no surprise that SYS-...

Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced Mimosa NearPoint™ 4.0, the fourth major version of its comprehensive solution for archiving, eDiscovery and business user productivity. Including new capabilities for expedited...

Businesses need the latest technologies to help them meet their needs, support their goals and compete in the marketplace. Layered Technologies has announced that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is now available on its automated Web hosting platform to ensure that customers can choose fr...

Google’s coming at Microsoft through Exchange; now Zoho’s coming at it through SharePoint. It’s rigged it so SharePoint users can use its online office suite, create and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations, then save the results directly to SharePoint in Microsoft ...

Microsoft has priced Windows 7. At retail the Home Premium version will list for $200, Professional $300, and Ultimate $320. That’s the full kit and Windows rarely sells for list. The upgrade prices are supposed to run $120 for Home Premium, $200 for Professional, and $220 for Ultimate...

Sixty percent of the people who bought a netbook thought it was just a cute little notebook, which is why 42% of them were disappointed with the widget’s performance according research done by the NPD Group. The researcher found only 58% of the people who bought a netbook instead of a ...

That makes six awards over the past two years, on the heels of the company’s best financial quarter in its history.

Microsoft Corp. has announced the winners and finalists of its 2009 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards honor Microsoft Registered, Certified and Gold Certified partners for delivering exemplary solutions for their customers during the past year. Award winners and f...

Magic Software, a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of the uniPaaS application platform, now with .NET integration for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Clients and equivalent support for mob...

In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker l...

According to CNET, the new economical Microsoft is scaling back its YouTube-competitive Soapbox web video service, meaning to limit content to categories covered by its online properties like finance and entertainment. It could just as easily give the venture up as a complete loss and ...

Bing hasn’t exactly broken Google’s stranglehold on search but Microsoft’s scores are inching up thanks to it. According to comScore, Microsoft captured all of 9.1% of U.S. Internet searches the week before Bing was released, 9.1% Bing’s first week out and 12.1% last week and its share...