Microsoft plans to eventually discontinue offering its standalone versions of FAST enterprise search products for Linux and Unix.
Academic researchers can now apply for free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud services.
Apple's new tablet PC was announced amid a roar of pre-release hype. What does it mean for .NET developers?
- By John K. Waters
- 02/04/2010
Microsoft Office 2010 reached the release candidate milestone this week, bringing the development process one step closer to the product's planned June release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/04/2010
Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure cloud services are now generally available, ending the free test period.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
It remains to be seen whether the slate-based iPad will help or hurt the prospects of PC-based alternatives with a similar form factor.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
Will the Dev10 improvements be worth it if the result is slower performance?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2010
Public safety managers must begin moving into the cloud, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday at the company's annual Public Safety Symposium.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 01/28/2010
Oracle Cloud Office is the next generation of Sun's OpenOffice, company officials revealed.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/28/2010
A former Microsoft employee apparently disclosed RTM dates for future Microsoft products, including "Office 2012," "Windows Server 2012" and "Windows 8."
Oracle plans to invest heavily in developing and selling hardware bundled with applications and database software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2010
Microsoft's court loss to i4i LP has spawned a make-shift tool to check for patent-infringing technology in Word files.
Microsoft is aligning with former rival Intuit to help bring Intuit's large contingent of QuickBooks users into the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/21/2010
A Microsoft official said this week the government must revise out-of-date statutes and lay new legislative groundwork to keep pace with technology.
The company updates its Quince community-based patterns portal with a professional service for collaboration and storage.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/21/2010
The European Commission today cleared Oracle's $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems, paving the way for the two companies to close the deal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/21/2010
Microsoft has tacitly acknowledged that it will have something to say after all about its next-generation mobile platform, including a possible Windows Phone in March.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/20/2010
The organization that oversees global allocation of IP addresses announced that less than 10 percent of the available IPv4 address space remains unallocated.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2010
Microsoft on Tuesday said SQL Server 2008 R2, the next version of its database, will be generally available in May.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2010
At the inaugural meeting of the New York Technology Council, representatives from Google and Microsoft debated their views on how data will be stored and shared in the future.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/15/2010