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A Microsoft official said this week the government must revise out-of-date statutes and lay new legislative groundwork to keep pace with technology.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
The next versions of Visual Studio and .NET Framework will be delayed by only three weeks, according to a brief announcement by Microsoft
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/15/2010
Microsoft on Tuesday released a free search engine optimization tool for Web sites.
Microsoft and HP disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation datacenter technology and application infrastructure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/13/2010
All eyes tend to focus on Microsoft's monthly patch cycle, but don't forget Adobe.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/13/2010
Microsoft plans to release its January security patch today, which is expected to include just one fix for Windows systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/12/2010
A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.
Ballmer's talk at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show consisted primarily of incremental announcements and positioning statements, but there were no major surprises.
The company announced on Monday that users can now upgrade their Windows Azure preview accounts to commercial subscriptions, or register for new services.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/06/2010