TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft expects half of all Exchange e-mail customers to subscribe to a software-as-a-service version within five years. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The My Passport Studio external hard drive is designed to work with Apple's Time Machine backup software. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Despite its recent ISO approval, however, Microsoft will not support the standardized version of its own Open XML format until the release of Office 14. -- read full article
AP - Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo. -- read full article
PC World - Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will bring improved XML support to the office suite-- but it will be ODF, and not Microsoft's own format. -- read full article
Reuters - The EU executive said on Thursday it
would investigate if steps announced by Microsoft to
make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with
Microsoft Office give consumers greater choice.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo. -- read full article
Reuters - McAfee Inc, the No. 2 security
software maker, likes small and medium-sized acquisitions of up
to about $350 million and sees no need for a transformative
deal to challenge larger rival Symantec Corp.
Reuters - The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj
expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product
portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused
devices grows, company officials said.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software is the latest in a recent push by vendors to simplify the increasingly complex IT infrastructure at many companies' branch offices with a do-it-all piece of hardware. -- read full article
PC Magazine - It may seem recently that there's been an exodus from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). First came Activision/Vivendi's departure, and then again more recently with LucasArts just last week. But not all agree that it was the right thing to do. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Specifically, XP3 runs a version of an essential dynamic-link library file called XMLLite.dll that's not compatible with versions of IE7 released prior to October. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Winners of this year's Codie awards, given by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIAA) Tuesday evening, include some familiar names in software as well as some lesser known and new companies. -- read full article
