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Microsoft & the Big Sync

 In the bowels of the great Microsoft machine a team has been working on something that may or may not be called “Mesh,” something that Microsoft...

0 replies - 716 views - 03/07/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Yahoo Reportedly Sizing Up AOL as its Knight in Shining Armor

In its desperate backstroke away from Microsoft’s clutches – and in case Microsoft starts its threatened proxy fight for control of the company – Yahoo...

0 replies - 732 views - 03/05/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

PHP Fit for Windows

Under its collaboration deal with Microsoft, Zend Technologies has certified Zend Core 2.5, its commercially supported version of PHP, on Windows Server 2008,...

0 replies - 781 views - 03/05/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Microsoft Broadens its SaaS Push

Microsoft, if nothing else, became a problem today for Yahoo’s $350 million Zimbra acquisition and Google’s rudimentary Sites contribution to the advance...

0 replies - 674 views - 03/03/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Yahoo Finds Microsoft Distracting

Yahoo has told the SEC that Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition offer and trying to find an alternative “have been, and may continue to be, a significant...

0 replies - 740 views - 03/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Gartner to OSS: ‘Beware the Patent Trap’ in Microsoft’s Newfound Openness

Gartner is almost as suspicious of Microsoft’s week-old interoperability promises as European Commission antitrust chief Neelie Kroes. It’s warning...

0 replies - 737 views - 03/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Ballmer Predicts the Rise of Computing Super-Powers

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been dazzling the Financial Times with the prediction of the emergence of a “new super-group of tech companies” that will...

0 replies - 714 views - 02/29/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Adobe’s AIR War Can Now Proceed in Earnest

Adobe greased up Monday for its wrestling match with Microsoft over who gets to call the shots in the all-important rich Internet apps (RIA) department, that...

0 replies - 918 views - 02/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

EC Fines Microsoft $1.33 Billion

The European Commission this morning slapped Microsoft with a massive $1.33 billion fine (899 million euros) for charging too much for the communications...

0 replies - 700 views - 02/27/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Microsoft Challenges Avistar Patents

In a rare move, Microsoft has asked the Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine 24 of the 29 US patents held by desktop videoconferencing and wannabe unified...

0 replies - 748 views - 02/26/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Red Hat Turned Off by Microsoft’s Charm Offensive

Red Hat listened to Microsoft’s interoperability statement Thursday and then issued a statement of its own saying it wasn’t enough.

0 replies - 354 views - 02/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

EC Threats Pry Microsoft Clam Open

In a landmark move, Microsoft is attempting to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret...

0 replies - 288 views - 02/21/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Microsoft Giving Away Development Software to Students

Dreamspark is the name of the Microsoft initiative to give students free developer tools so "you can chase your dreams and create the next big...

1 replies - 1176 views - 02/19/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Reportedly Suiting Up for Proxy Battle for Yahoo

Microsoft and Yahoo aren’t negotiating a deal behind the scenes, according to what Bill Gates told the AP this morning, 18 days after Microsoft made its...

0 replies - 247 views - 02/19/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Is Rupert Murdoch Yahoo’s White Knight?

The media is all atwitter at the news that Yahoo is now seeking a rabbit hole in Rupert Murdoch’s patch rather than get bought by Microsoft – at least not...

0 replies - 411 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News