- Wed Nov 18 8:28 AM PST 2009 PDC Day 2 live blog: Office 2010, IE 9 on stage
At the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft talks about Office 2010, shows Silverlight 4, and shares the first details on Internet Explorer 9.
- Tue Nov 3 11:38 AM PST 2009 Data's one-two punch in open-source business models
Tim O'Reilly has been saying for years that data, not open-source licenses, is the key to successful open-source businesses. We're finally listening.
- Tue Nov 3 5:01 AM PST 2009 Personal services get business flavor: Xobni and SugarSync
Useful start-up tools now with IT oversight and controls--and business models to match.
- Mon Nov 2 2:41 PM PST 2009 Microsoft chops price of its hosted software
Redmond says it's cutting by a third the monthly subscription fee for those using a hosted version of Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications Server.
- Fri Oct 23 7:12 AM PDT 2009 Google competes for the future; Microsoft, the past
Google is using open source and cloud computing to tackle the future of computing while Microsoft seems stymied by its legacy.
- Mon Oct 19 9:00 AM PDT 2009 Office 2010 to enter public beta next month
Microsoft is making the announcement at a SharePoint conference on Monday, where it will also announce what it has in store for the next version of its portal software.
- Mon Oct 19 7:23 AM PDT 2009 Visual Studio 2010 to launch in March
Microsoft says it has reached the Beta 2 milestone for its collection of developer tools. The software maker also says it is simplifying the number of different versions it sells.
- Thu Oct 8 12:26 PM PDT 2009 In mobile, open source is a winning strategy
To attract new developers to the seemingly moribund Windows Mobile, Microsoft should try an open-source complement strategy similar to that of SharePoint.
- Tue Sep 29 10:38 AM PDT 2009 Red Hat to collide with Microsoft
Red Hat and Microsoft both have big ambitions. The problem? They're roughly the same ambition.
- Thu Sep 17 12:05 PM PDT 2009 Test-drive: Office Web apps technical preview
It's Office. On the Web. That's not necessarily a good thing, we discover in an early look at Microsoft's online versions of Excel and PowerPoint.




