It was easy to see why Microsoft picked this as one of the kick-off sessions at Tech Ed ‘07. Based on a show of hands, Computerworld counted less than ten people (out of an audience of around 600) who indicated they had been involved in a serious Vista deployment, that is something more than installing the OS on a home machine.
Statistics New Zealand today demonstrated version 2 of its web-based statistical processing and publishing system, which allows Excel 2007 users to both analyse and publish data from the one interface.
Microsoft New Zealand managing director Helen Robinson used her opening remarks at the Tech Ed conference in Auckland today to ask developers to "encourage" Standards New Zealand to support the Open XML file format.
Microsoft will release nine sets of security patches, including six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and its Visual Basic development software.
Linchpin Labs, a small Australian security company whose free utility Microsoft has blocked from loading unsigned drivers into Windows Vista, has lashed out at the American giant. Microsoft, says Linchpin, should set its own security house in order before it accuses other developers of turning their legitimate software into threats.
Weta Digital, maker of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and other films, is the first to sign a licensing agreement with Microsoft for its graphics technology, Microsoft has announced.
Microsoft last week slammed the door on a free utility out of Australia that outflanked one the company's touted security features in Windows Vista by having the program's digital certificate revoked.
Training providers and businesses are grappling with Microsoft’s “New Generation of Certification”, which will eventually replace the current MCSEs and MCSAs.
Microsoft and Cisco are both making serious moves into what is clearly seen as the next big thing in telecommunications: the unified communications business.
While Japan is ahead of the West in terms of consumer IT, it lags in business computing, Microsoft’s Japan president says.
Microsoft faces a revolt among enterprise customers over its Software Assurance maintenance programme, one analyst says, because of long stretches between upgrades and simple economics.
Microsoft, EMC and Cisco Systems have unveiled plans to build a system for sharing sensitive government data called the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA). It will let various government agencies and their vendors securely share sensitive information.
Standards body Ecma International has formed a technical committee to develop a standard built on Microsoft’s XML Paper Specification (XPS), a rival file format to Adobe Systems’ widely-used PDF.
Microsoft has been quietly adding to the cache of reference applications it hopes will help transform Microsoft Office 2007 from a mere productivity suite to a collaboration tool.
Microsoft’s mammoth developer conference, Tech Ed, has sold out earlier than ever before, says Sean McBreen, director of Microsoft New Zealand’s developer and platform strategy group.