Govt saves $9m with Microsoft licensing scheme
Government agencies have achieved an estimated $9 million saving over the next three years with the signing of a new triennial licensing agreement with Microsoft, known as G2006.
Government agencies have achieved an estimated $9 million saving over the next three years with the signing of a new triennial licensing agreement with Microsoft, known as G2006.
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates says he will step out of his daily role at Microsoft in July 2008 so he can take on a full-time role at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charity organisation he runs with his wife.
Microsoft has unveiled its plans for BizTalk Server, including support for RFID technology and integration with Vista and Office, and says the next release of the software, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, will be in the first half of next year.
Bill Gates, who earlier this month hosted his 10th annual Microsoft CEO Summit, used his keynote address to show how search features being developed in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Vista will integrate with a new desktop version of Windows Live Search.
Colour me blind
Helen Robinson will take over as Microsoft New Zealand managing director at a very interesting time.
New encryption and policy control functions being built into Microsoft’s Vista operating system will help make it easier for enterprises to protect against data compromises such as the one involving the US Department of Veterans Affairs publicised last week, a company executive says.
Microsoft has released a near-final version of its software for building e-commerce sites and renamed the product Commerce Server 2007, from Commerce Server 2006.
Did you ever hear the warning “Be careful what you wish for, it might come true?” Well, because Microsoft is the company most people love to hate, I decided to ask a cross section of industry cognoscenti this simple question: what would happen if Microsoft and all of its technology disappeared tomorrow?
After four years as managing director for New Zealand, Ross Peat has quit the post, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.
As part of its ongoing plan to beef up its virtualisation portfolio, Microsoft has announced that it will acquire virtualisation vendor Softricity. Redmond has also outlined a timetable for offering built-in hypervisor technology for Windows Server and will introduce a new virtual machine-management product.
Could any subject be less interesting than electronic document formats? Even programmers’ eyes start to glaze over when the conversation shifts to how an application stores its data. For software end users, the topic seldom even comes up.
Even as Google threatens to become as big a behemoth as rival Microsoft, the atmosphere at the Googleplex, in Mountain View, California, continues to exude a Californian hippie vibe. But as the company grows, can it maintain its free-spirited attitude for much longer?
Sun Microsystems famously forbids its employees from using Microsoft Office, and Novell forced its workers to switch off Windows to SUSE Linux, after it bought SUSE.
Next month, sometime rivals SAP and Microsoft will start shipping a jointly developed product that links SAP's business applications with Microsoft's Office desktop software.