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Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims

Just weeks after its controversial patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting out at statements made by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. Novell has been under fire from many members of the Linux and open-source community since entering into a set of broad collaboration agreements with […]

Nov 20, 2006
Red Hat Exec: Oracle Linux Move ‘Positive for Us’

Red Hat executives are putting on a brave face and looking at Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux announcement as a positive for them, saying it is an acknowledgement that the future of software is open source and that its Enterprise Linux software is the gold standard. Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same […]

Oct 26, 2006
OEMs Reveal Their Vista Upgrade Plans

While both Gateway and Hewlett-Packard are going to let customers who buy certain PCs this holiday season upgrade to Windows Vista at no cost, Dell has decided to charge a fee to upgrade from Windows XP Home to Vista Basic. These OEM announcements closely follow that of Microsoft, which finally revealed Oct. 24 its upgrade […]

Oct 25, 2006
Open-Source Firms Reward Developers with Xboxes

What does it take to get an open-source developer to write a piece of software code or perhaps find and fix bugs in a company’s existing code? A Microsoft Xbox, it appears. Just ask Stormy Peters, an original founder of Hewlett-Packard’s Open Source Program Office and currently the director of project management at OpenLogic, which […]

Oct 24, 2006
Microsoft Finally Reveals Plans for Upgrades to Vista

Microsoft has finally revealed the much anticipated details of its program to let customers who buy a PC that is Windows Vista capable over the holiday season upgrade to the new operating system. Microsoft officials have said they are on track for a release of Vista to volume license business customers in November, and to […]

Oct 24, 2006
Bundling Technology

Microsoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The company is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance. […]

Oct 23, 2006
Microsoft Opens Access to Its Sender ID Spec

Microsoft has made the Sender ID framework specification for e-mail authentication available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The Sender ID specification will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker issued […]

Oct 23, 2006
Microsoft to Unveil New Certification Program for Office Project 2007

Microsoft will introduce a new Office Project 2007 certification program and a new portal, the EPM Connect, at the Project Management Institute Global Congress 2006 conference in Seattle the week of Oct. 23. Microsoft, which is the host sponsor of this project management conference, is on track to release Microsoft Office Project 2007 to businesses […]

Oct 20, 2006
Microsoft’s Software Assurance Customers to Get New Tools

Microsoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The software giant is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software […]

Oct 17, 2006
Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec

Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker […]

Oct 17, 2006
Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division

Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions. The software giant is also making changes on the security front by bringing its security, Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence teams together in one group, […]

Oct 12, 2006
Vista Enters Home Stretch with RC2 Release

The long and oft-delayed journey toward the release of Windows Vista entered the home stretch Oct. 6 when Microsoft released what is likely the final test build, Release Candidate 2. “Microsoft expects the RC2 build to be the last interim release before the product is released to manufacturing. As we stated from the beginning of […]

Oct 6, 2006
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