Reuters - Microsoft said on Tuesday it
expects global unit sales of its Windows Mobile software for
cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per year in fiscal years
2008 and 2009.
Reuters - The chief financial officer of
business software maker SAP does not believe an out
of court settlement with Oracle is likely at present,
he told German Sunday weekly Euro am Sonntag. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Just days after Microsoft announced it would directly support a range of standards-based document formats in a future update to its Office suite, New York's chief information officer issued a report calling for the state to embrace an open document policy. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Cisco alerted users to vulnerabilities in several of its products while IBM says it has a patch ready for its software. -- read full article
NewsFactor - If you've taken lots of camera photos with your iPhone and later wondered where they were taken, the new iPhone software could solve that problem. According to news reports, the iPhone Software 2.0 update will offer location-based photo-tagging which the user can turn on and off. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software giant remains optimistic in the face of the latest obstacle to adoption of its portable media player. -- read full article
PC World - Microsoft's plan to include ODF support in its Office suite next year reflects continued challenges for the OOXML file format... -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - European trustbusters want to see if Microsoft's vow to support the OpenDocument Format in its Office products will loosen the software maker's stranglehold on the desktop applications market. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Coverity, known in the code security and quality space, plans to announce its acquisition of build management vendor Codefast next week. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Doors, for example, is a set of requirements management tools that track not only the software changes required in a product but any other changes as well -- read full article
AFP - The European Commission said on Thursday it would scrutinise a decision by Microsoft to make its Office programme compatible with a rival document format.
Reuters - The judge who signed a
landmark European antitrust ruling against Microsoft
said on Thursday he was surprised by the large size of a record
899 million euro ($1.42 billion) fine imposed by the EU
executive against the software company after he had retired.
PC World - Office productivity software developers said Thursday Microsoft's support for their championed document format could mean... -- read full article
Reuters - The EU executive will investigate if
steps announced by Microsoft Corp to make it easier
for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office
would give consumers greater choice.
