Tag: Microsoft

  • Microsoft to Make Vista Easier to Buy Online

    Microsoft to Make Vista Easier to Buy Online

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft is making it easier for customers to buy, upgrade and license multiple copies of Windows Vista online. The Redmond, Wash. software maker will unveil three new programs on Jan. 18 designed to give users additional flexibility in the ways they can go online to get Vista, which will be widely available on Jan. 30.… Read more

  • Microsoft: Vista Could Be a Windfall for NJ/NY VARs

    Microsoft: Vista Could Be a Windfall for NJ/NY VARs

    Deborah Rothberg

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    Within its first year of shipment, Windows Vista is expected to make 4.7 million computers its home, drive 21,000 new IT jobs and generate $9.5 billion in New York and New Jersey, according to an IDC report commissioned by Microsoft, released Jan. 16. Vista’s impact on the market will reach far beyond Microsoft, the study… Read more

  • Microsoft, Nortel VOIP Alliance Gets Real

    Microsoft, Nortel VOIP Alliance Gets Real

    Paula Musich

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    Microsoft and Nortel Networks on Jan. 17 revealed more about their Unified Communications Alliance, announcing real deliverables and detailing a road map for further products due next year. The alliance, launched in the summer of 2006, has yielded over the last six months a series of integrated offerings due out this year. First of the… Read more

  • Microsoft Hires Father of WebSphere from IBM

    Microsoft Hires Father of WebSphere from IBM

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Microsoft has hired Don Ferguson, a prominent IBM software technologist and former chief architect of IBM’s Software Group, to work in the office of the CTO. According to Ferguson’s bio at Microsoft—published on Jan. 8—he is now a Microsoft technical fellow in Platforms and Strategy, in the office of the chief technology officer. At Microsoft,… Read more

  • Aras Move Puts New Spin on Open Source

    Aras Move Puts New Spin on Open Source

    Peter Galli

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    Aras, which makes product life-cycle management software, has a new spin on open source: making the code to its Aras Innovator software, which only runs on proprietary Microsoft technologies, openly available under the Microsoft Community License and hosted on Microsoft’s Codeplex Web site. Aras customers will be able to download its code, yet are not… Read more

  • SGI, Microsoft Ink Server Partnership

    SGI, Microsoft Ink Server Partnership

    Scott Ferguson

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    Silicon Graphics, which in October emerged from bankruptcy and staff cuts in October, is now teaming up with Microsoft to offer the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating system in its Xeon-based servers. The two companies are scheduled to announce the new agreement Jan. 11. SGI, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will start offering the 64-bit… Read more