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- Office 15: Let the feature requests begin
- Planning is already underway for the next release of Microsoft's productivity suite,known as Office 15, as a December 3 blog post on the Microsoft Access Team Blog site makes clear. The Access database team is soliciting input regarding new kinds of SQL Server support that Access customers would like to...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Blog, Planning, Microsoft Office, Team Management, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Management, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- News to know: Comcast-NBCU; Chrome netbooks; Google Public DNS; Psystar; Accenture
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alertand RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage: Larry Dignan: Meet the new Comcast-NBCU: Content meets conduit everywhere; Will it work? John Morris: Will Chrome netbooks really be...
- Tags: Google Inc., DNS, Accenture Ltd., Microsoft Office, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Sam Diaz, Global Warming, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Security, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- Microsoft delivers two more pieces of its Forefront enterprise security suite
- Today Microsoft announced its plans for releasing two more pieces of its "Stirling" a k a Forefront enterprise security suite: Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 TMG and Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 UAG. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Enterprise Security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- Report: Final Microsoft browser ballot may include Opera-suggested modifications
- The seemingly never-ending antitrust trial in Europe may soon come to a close, if a new report by Bloomberg is on the money. Bloomberg reported on December 3 that the European Commission EC may issue its final remedy in the browser-bundling case involving Opera Software and Microsoft by December 15....
- Tags: Antitrust, Opera Software ASA, Microsoft Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Corporate Law, Internet, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- Microsoft targets programming newbies with new Vedea visualization language
- In mid-November, Microsoft researchers dropped a few hints about a new visualization language, codenamed Vedea, that was coming from Microsoft. On December 3, via a blog post, Microsoft officials provided more specifics about it. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- Microsoft sells off part of its FAST enterprise-search acquisition
- Microsoft has sold off two units of Fast Search and Transfer, the Norweigian enterprise search company it bought in 2008 for $1.23 billion, to Rocket Software. Rocket announced the sale on December 2. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Acquisition, Microsoft Corp., Rocket Software Inc., Cloud Computing, Search, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-02
- Microsoft demonstrates more Bing 2.0 features and shares new user stats
- Microsoft sent a bunch of its top search execs to San Francisco on December 2 to show off more of what's part of the Bing 2.0 fall refresh of the company's search engine. Some of these enhancements are here in beta form today; others are coming over the next few...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Exec, Search, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-02
- Microsoft's latest promotion: Buy Office 2007 now; get Office 2010 for free
- The same way that it tried to make sure that orders for Vista wouldn't drop off the face of a cliff via a Windows 7 upgrade-option offer, Microsoft is priming the partner pump with a new Office promotional deal. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows 7, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-02
- Microsoft: No Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 until SP3
- Last month, Microsoft's Exchange team announced-- to the relief of many customers and partners -- that it planned to reverse course and allow Exchange Server 2007 to run on top of the latest version of Windows Server, a k a Windows Server 2008 R2. This week, the team admitted that...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Windows Server, SP3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, E-mail Servers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-02
- Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud
- For a while now, Microsoft has been courting open-source software makers to convince them of the wisdom of offering their wares on Windows. So it's not too surprising that many of those same apps also are being moved to the Windows Azure cloud platform. The Ruby on Rails framework is...
- Tags: Microsoft Azure, Ruby, Microsoft Corp., Ruby On Rails Framework, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- Office Web Apps access comes to Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry and more (with some caveats)
- For the past year, Microsoft officials have said repeatedly -- without offering any specifics -- that Office Web Apps will work on mobile phones. But now that the public beta of Office Web Apps is available (as of mid-November), the Redmondians are revealing, with a little prodding. a bit more...
- Tags: AMR Research, Gartner Inc., Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), GAAP, Enterprise Software, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- SQL Server 2008 R2 gets an official due date
- Speaking of roadmaps, Microsoft (either "by design" or by mistake) has provided a due date for SQL Server 2008 R2, the next version of its database. Up until recently, the Softies have been saying SQL Server 2008 R2 would be a "first half" 2010 product. But in a new benchmark...
- Tags: Touch DJ, phone
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Microsoft updates its enterprise ABC (Active Directory, BizTalk and Communications Server) roadmaps
- Microsoft has released many of the products that officials promised earlier this year would be its biggest release wave in the company's history. But there are still a number of key Microsoft enterprise products in development which haven't reached the finish line yet. Microsoft updated the roadmaps for some of...
- Tags: ABC Inc., Microsoft BizTalk Server, Communications Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Update, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Web Services, Directory Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave by year-end
- Microsoft Chief Financial Officer CFO Chris Liddell is leaving Microsoft after four years to pursue other interests, company officials announced via a November 24 press release issued quietly just before the start of the Thanksgiving holiday. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., CFO, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Microsoft isn't the only one developing a hardware-accelerated browser
- Microsoft, with IE 9, isn't the only browser provider planning to harness hardware acceleration. Mozilla is planning to do the same with Firefox. Firefox developers have posted a prototype demonstrating the ability to take advantage of Direct2D and DirectWrite. Google is interested in the possibilities of hardware-accelerating Chrome, as well,...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Hardware, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?
- Microsoft is adding more and more WPF features to Silverlight and vice versa. But there is a downside to this strategy: By adding technologies like COM support to Silverlight, Microsoft is doing damage to its story that Silverlight is a cross-platform browser plug-in that supports Windows, Mac -- and, thanks...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Linux, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Open Source, .Net, Operating Systems, Development Tools, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement
- More information is coming in from various testers regarding the Office Starter 2010 build that Microsoft released to a group of selected testers late last week -- including details on macro and file type support. Do any of these make Office Starter a non-starter, in your book? by Mary Jo...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Works, Tester, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Office Starter 2010 private beta, with 'Office to GO,' goes to testers
- Microsoft released a bunch of public betas of various Office 2010 products this week. But it also released another one under non-disclosure to a select group of testers: Office Starter 2010. Microsoft made the code for Office Starter 2010 available to select testers via its Connect Web site late this...
- Tags: Beta, Tester, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
- I'm not one of those ready to write Windows an RIP certificate now that Google has finally taken some of the wraps off its Chrome OS. In fact, after reading through industry watchers' questions and Google's answers about it, I'm thinking that Chrome OS may not look quite so appealing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist
- It's been almost two years since I first got tips about Microsoft "SmartFlow," a product which allegedly was going to be a competitor with Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom post-production software for professional photographers. I had thought that incubation project may have been quietly eliminated somewhere along the way. But it's still...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Lightroom, Twist, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
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