Microsoft will release Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007 and Office Live Meeting via a public webcast October 16, which will be co-hosted by Chairman Bill Gates and Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes.
In a reversal, the American representative to the ISO standards body is now tentatively supporting the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as an open standard this year.
The US organisation that is a delegate to the ISO international standards body likely will vote against approving Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard next month, after the proposal failed to get enough support from members of the group's board.
Microsoft clarified its plans to seek open-source certification for its shared-source licenses on Wednesday, saying it will submit for approval only the two licenses that allow source code to be used on any platform.
The latest update to Microsoft Corp.'s Works productivity software is expected to go on sale Wednesday amid renewed speculation that the long-standing, low-end counterpart to Microsoft Office is also being groomed to take on Google Inc. in the online office software market.
Forget the "7" code name, which was already <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011318">out there</a>, or the 2010 release date, which was also neither <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011277">new</a> nor -- based on Microsoft Corp.'s lately abysmal record with hitting major release dates -- exactly set in stone.
With Web 2.0, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and open source grabbing all the headlines, launches of enterprise infrastructure software that were once major IT events now sometimes seem like forgotten affairs. Certainly the new millennium marked a downturn in interest in traditional, monolithic back-end software.
Hewlett-Packard has announced its third generation of blade PCs, which focus on the "Achilles' heel" of most thin-client infrastructures: performance.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a cross-licensing deal with Korean consumer electronics maker LG Electronics. It is the fifth such deal in recent months that involves Redmond's controversial granting of Linux patent 'protection' -- in this case, to LG-made cell phones and other devices.
The recent Mix 07 conference was the launching pad for more than just Microsoft’s Expression and Silverlight products. Independent software vendors also demonstrated upcoming products that work within the same Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) graphical sub-system as Expression and Silverlight.
Microsoft kicked off its recent Mix 07 conference by announcing that a full cross-platform version of its .Net programming environment will be fused to the second release of Silverlight.
Citigroup may be in the midst of massive IT restructuring, including layoffs (as reported in Computerworld last week), but it is planning to upgrade as many as 500,000 of its PCs to Windows Vista in the next 13-14 months, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
Despite fast growth by Microsoft's SQL Server, Oracle kept building on its dominance of the database market last year, according to preliminary figures released yesterday by IDC.
Microsoft's developer division is readying a slew of new products, including a set of multimedia design tools aimed at Adobe Systems users. Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president of the developer unit, spoke with Eric Lai this week. Excerpts follow.
Microsoft late on Friday released an update to Outlook 2007 designed to speed up the communication software's much-criticized sluggishness.