The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Wednesday dashed Microsoft’s hopes of overturning the Texas decision ordering it to pay the tiny Canadian company i4i $290 million for infringing its custom XML editor patent. The court also upheld the injunction that the district cou...

Microsoft is killing off its Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS) effective June 30 to “streamline” its server portfolio. It figures mid-sized businesses can virtualize and get to the cloud using Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft System Center and Microsoft Business Productiv...

Microsoft only started distributing its newfangled Ballot Screen last week to give Europeans an antitrust-correcting choice of browsers when Opera claimed it was already seeing a tripling of its downloads in western Europe and Poland because of the thing and then Mozilla told the New Y...

This morning I read in the WSJ about the Turing award for this year given to Charles Thacker. I must admit I did not now much about Charles Thacker, he being mostly from the hardware side of the business. For those not familiar with this award, it is the highest honor given to contr...

Microsoft has released an application called Tag that is compatible with Google's Android Operating System , a prime competitor of its Windows mobile. The free software available from Android Market turns any phone’s built-in camera into a mobile barcode reader which lets you gain ins...

Mainsoft Corporation, a provider of cross-platform interoperability software, on Tuesday announced Harmony - free software for Microsoft Outlook that provides full-featured access to Google Docs documents or Microsoft SharePoint® document libraries from within e-mail. Based on the prem...

Google Friday reportedly shelled out somewhere between $25 million and $30 million for DocVerse, the almost three-year-old start-up that was obviously born to go to Google. TechCrunch expected the deal to close in December. DocVerse will let Google Apps users share, edit, collaborate...

Mantrasys on Tuesday announced a software development partnership with Health-care product company based in Birmingham, AL. Under this partnership MantraSys will provide a turnkey solution to the company's primary product. These solutions will use Mantrasys's mSource methodology and wi...

The European Commission figures over 100 million (doubtlessly utterly confused) European Windows users will be exposed to the browser-bearing Ballot Screen that Microsoft is being made to circulate offering alternatives to Internet Explorer to settle the EC’s latest antitrust action. ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a speech about the cloud Thursday that was webcast. “We are betting our company on” it, he said. Apparently Microsoft has shifted 70% of its work to the cloud. Should hit 90% a year from now. He also observed that Google is better at search than Yahoo, ...

Microsoft has done unto Google what Google and its CEO Eric Schmidt did unto Microsoft – in fact Eric did it at least twice – before Google he was CEO of Novell – and that’s to complain to the regulators – sometimes unsolicited, sometimes because it was asked. Google’s public respons...

SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010. Carmen Gonzalez was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen served as the co-founder, president, and chief operating officer ...

The coming years will be both exciting and challenging as we collectively migrate to integrated enterprise cloud computing. Speaking of enterprises, I owe all of you an article on preparing your enterprise for the cloud. I continue to work on it, but it's not quite ready yet. This...

As a market leader offering the most robust and flexible data management solutions, Objectivity, Inc., on Tuesday announced the newest release of its high performance platform and enabling technology, Objectivity/DB Release 10. This major release offers new and powerful features for th...

Creating a new office is a direct response to the increased demand for practical ways of connecting SAP and Microsoft solutions. Microsoft SharePoint Server, fast becoming a de facto standard in the Enterprise, is fueling the need for intuitive tools and packaged scenarios enabling sea...

Oracle co-president Charles Phillips was supposed to become CEO of CA - for all its muddied skirts still one of the world's largest software companies - and then those "soul mates forever" billboards popped up in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, exposing his near decade-long bi-coa...

This white paper confirms that industry-standard practices to clean color document images can be improved to produce higher OCR accuracy. Image Detergent improves OCR accuracy 5–10% more than standard Smoothing filters. Download the white paper with sample source code today!

Microsoft released Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 Wednesday. It’s a new operating system – for classrooms, labs and libraries to start – that lets multiple users share a host computer using their own monitors, keyboards and mice via USB or a video card. It’s interpreted as Microsof...

Microsoft and Amazon have signed a broad patent cross-license that Microsoft said covers Amazon’s e-book reader “Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon’s proprietary software components, and Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers.” Facts being thin on the ground one is left t...

NComputing has announced on Wednesday that the company's full product line will support the new Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 operating system from Microsoft Corp. NComputing virtual desktop kits are based on the company's vSpace desktop virtualization software and are available in th...

Microsoft Wednesday tied its Outlook e-mail client to LinkedIn – with Facebook and MySpace to follow – to “bring social networking into the inbox.” It’s supposed to be more private than Google’s disaster with Buzz and connect to existing social networks rather than create new ones. ...

Many people have wondered what has taken Microsoft so long to update its lackluster Windows Mobile platform. It finally did it! At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced the Windows Phone 7 Series, its latest operating system for phones. The Software giant’s Windo...

Rackspace Hosting on Thursday announced the launch of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, the collaboration and file sharing platform, backed by Rackspace’s 24x7x365 Fanatical Support. With the addition of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, Rackspace's suite of cloud applications now includes busin...

Right now, you can test drive the innovations at the heart of the new efficiency — free. Download free trials and demo the latest features. Windows 7 works the way you work, helping you reduce management costs, improve productivity, and manage risks through enhanced security and contro...

Why Attend Tech Ed 2010? Because you'll return to your office with knowledge and expertise that only four days at Tech Ed can offer. You can learn about today’s cutting-edge trends, helping make life easier for you (and everyone else) at work. But the most important benefit just might ...

Magic Software Enterprises Inc., a subsidiary of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, on Tuesday announced that its new iBOLT business integration suite component for Microsoft SharePoint will enable unlimi...

Pervasive Software of embeddable data management and data integration software and in enabling revolutionary next-generation analytics, on Monday announced that it has selected the Microsoft Windows Azure platform as the future platform for Pervasive BusinessXchange WebDI, its hosted b...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Microsoft has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Clou...

Microsoft has started beta testing its so-called XDrive as Windows Azure Drive. It’ll let users run their Windows apps in the cloud using standard Windows NTFS APIs to make migrating to the cloud easier. Microsoft said for the beta release, customers will only be billed for the storage...

Windows Azure and SQL Azure went commercial in the wee small hours Tuesday Greenwich time in 21 countries to face off against Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, Google, Cisco, EMC, VMware and Rackspace. And 99.95% Service Level Agreements (SLAs) kicked in and partners, ISVs and business-betting ...

Microsoft has taken out some patent insurance by becoming a paying member of the 14-month-old RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation service. RPX fends off patent trolls by beating non-practicing entities (NPEs) to the punch and acquiring patent rights before they do to protect its clients, ...

Intuit and Microsoft plan to create new opportunities for software developers to deliver and market Web applications to small business customers through the Intuit App Center. The two companies plan to integrate the capabilities of their cloud services platforms – the Intuit Partner Pl...

SYS-CON Events announced on Monday that Cloud Expo 2010 West, the 7th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place November 1-3, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Call for Papers for Cloud Expo 2010 West is also open. Cloud...

PivotLink, the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), announced that Everything Channel's CRN has named its business analytics solution one of the "100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products." The Top 100 Cloud Computing produc...

Evidently 7 is Microsoft's lucky number. It knocked one out of the park when it reported its calendar Q4 results Thursday. Revenues steamed past everybody's expectation by like a billion dollars on the back on Windows 7 sales, netting earnings of $6.7 billion, or 74 cents a share, u...

Metalogix Software, a provider of SharePoint migration, management, archiving, and recovery solutions as well as email archiving solutions for Microsoft Exchange, on Wednesday announced Metalogix Migration Manager for Oracle Content Server (Stellent). Simplifying the migration of Stell...

There may be little left for Apple to announce about its purported tablet or iSlate come January 27, a date change since January 26 was noised about. The rumor mill is slowly teasing out all its secrets. The great unveiling, according to the Financial Times, is still supposed to be...

Cloud Computing in 2010 will be a paradigm shifting technology trend and Cloud Expo is where the Cloud change will form as the single most significant industry event we enter a new decade. Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New ...

The European Commission said Tuesday that it could have a decision on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal by February 19. Microsoft is supposed to get effective control of Yahoo’s search engine business. The deal was announced last July. And to ensure it doesn’t have any problems with the EC, Mic...

Today, Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel at Microsoft Corp., urged both Congress and the information technology industry to act now to ensure that the burgeoning era of cloud computing is guided by an international commitment to privacy, security and transparency fo...