As Microsoft's Office Open XML document format remains in ISO limbo, a trio of countries are pushing forward an adoption of the alternative Open Document Format (ODF) instead, according to an ODF advocacy group.
At its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle announced an upcoming version of its Siebel CRM On Demand service that will include social networking features reminiscent of consumer portals such as Facebook or MySpace.
In addition to the question of what corporate policy now-former Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott violated to lead to his termination by the company on Monday, many other unknowns remain.
Microsoft disclosed that it has fired CIO Stuart Scott after an internal investigation determined that he had violated unspecified company policies.
Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft saying that it has now shipped 88 million copies of the operating system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch.
IBM later this month plans to release Version 10 of its Information Management System (IMS), a 39-year-old database originally built to help land men on the moon.
Adobe Systems' moves to support rich Internet applications are exposing the software vendor -- and its developers and users -- to the threat of more Web-based malware and efforts to take advantage of security holes in its products.
Conventional wisdom holds that small companies, not big ones, are embracing software-as-a-service (SAAS) technologies. And until now, Microsoft's tentative forays into the SAAS arena — such as its Windows Live, Office Live and Dynamics Live CRM services — have held to that conventional wisdom by focusing on consumers and on small and midsize businesses.
Why would a successful CIO leave one company to become co-CIO of another with only one-third the revenue and employees? Answer: The new company is Microsoft. Stuart Scott moved there in mid-2005 from General Electric, the US$160 billion, 319,000-employee behemoth where he had worked for 17 years, most recently as CIO of GE Industrial Systems. Then, about a year ago, co-CIO Ron Markezich was tapped to run Microsoft's budding managed services business. Scott has been Microsoft's sole CIO since then.
The OpenOffice.org group has updated its open-source suite of desktop applications, saying the new release enhances the ability of users to create charts and other graphics from spreadsheet data.
As a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1970s, Michael Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology that underlies many leading relational databases today, including Ingres itself, Microsoft’s SQL Server, Sybase’s Adaptive Server Enterprise and IBM’s Informix.
Salesforce.com Inc. on Friday announced a new rich Web platform for building on-demand business software that it hopes will lead to an "explosion" of applications, similar to that currently occurring with Facebook Inc.'s popular Web 2.0 site.
One last chance to hear Bill Gates speak before he leaves the company he co-founded to head up his humanitarian efforts drew tens of thousands of Microsoft employees to the company's annual meeting at Safeco Field in Seattle late last week.
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday officially released version 1.0 of its Silverlight rich media player.
Countries normally passive in the arcane world of international high-tech standards are suddenly jockeying to have their say in the fate of Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format, swelling membership in a key but normally obscure technical committee.