Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced the availability of data migration tools for users of Microsoft Outlook to easily move e-mails, contacts, appointments and tasks to Open-Xchange Server. The cost savings can be substantial by migr...

As of September 1st, ReSharper 5.1.1 is available for download, as well as release candidates for dotCover 1.0 and dotTrace 4 Performance. Important! Initially a wrong ReSharper build was published (5.1.1751.10). If you have downloaded this version, please download it again as we chan...

Hiperos, LLC, a provider of on-demand solutions for extended enterprise management, announced on Thursday that Microsoft Corp. will use Hiperos to manage all critical aspects of the supplier lifecycle – from initial supplier registration and assessment of risk to active measurement of ...

SmartBear Software announces the new major release of its application runtime analysis and performance profiling tool, AQtime™ 7.0. Thousands of users rely on AQtime to isolate and eliminate performance bottlenecks, memory leaks and other runtime problems. Version 7.0 brings its powerf...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lodged a patent suit Friday against AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google subsidiary YouTube. Microsoft is noticeably not named and reportedly has no license to the widgetry. It does own a piece...

To ensure payment for use of their application, ISVs must implement some type of software protection, aiming to restrict the use of software to specific license conditions. SafeNet reviews top seven piracy threats and how you can protect your software against them.

In this white paper read how Skyline Software Systems, Inc. needed a “more comprehensive solution that could work across multiple media formats,” and switched from homegrown to SafeNet Sentinel HASP.

SafeNet discusses IDC's findings on the best practices for the deployment of software licensing and entitlement management technologies. Learn how software publishers can benefit from faster time-to-market, increased ability to capture and optimize revenue, and reduced operational inef...

Rackspace Hosting has gone GA with its beta Cloud Servers for Windows. The new service is supposed to deliver a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications or “supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gamin...

Hewlett-Packard posted Mark Hurd’s last quarter Thursday delivering earnings up 6.1% to $1.77 billion, or 75 cents a share, on revenues up 11.4% to $30.7 billion, a tad better than what the company projected the numbers would be on August 6 when the board forced Hurd to resign. Its ...

In this white paper, SafeNet examines the real costs involved in the decision to develop a homegrown licensing and protection solution, providing a detailed review of the actual costs involved, the business considerations that apply and the ongoing total cost of ownership during the so...

DevPartner makes sure your code is right the first time, saving you time and effort locating software defects, memory leaks, performance bottlenecks and configuration issues. Find out how to identify these problems before they go into production, so you spend your time more effectively...

Microsoft has taken a relatively rare architecture license to the ARM chip and that’s pretty much all the pair are saying about it. The details of the deal are “confidential” although ARM broadly hints that Microsoft means to straddle the chip in “multiple application areas.” Specu...

Microsoft’s stock price may stink but its P&L numbers are pretty much sweet perfume. In the June quarter, Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter and the end of its fiscal year it made $4.52 billion, 51 cents a share, up 48% on record revenues of $16.04 billion, up 22%.

Microsoft was supposed to terminate so-called XP downgrade rights with the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which went to beta this week. But now it says it’s not going to because people continue to cling to the thing. With 74% of the enterprise still on XP, Microsoft has to pay ...

Royally trumped in the tablet business that it couldn’t get off the ground – while Apple made it look easy – Microsoft is promising to return in force underneath the slates that 21 companies are supposed to put out within the year to dip their bread in the bubbling Apple-made gravy. ...

Microsoft announced Monday that it’s boxing the thing up as a server appliance so that companies and government agencies touchy about where their data is can have private Azure clouds, and service providers can set up public Azure clouds. It will also be the basis of hybrid Azure cloud...

Microsoft is going to charge 11 bucks a month for each desktop PC attached to Intune, the cloud service that manages SMBs, once it comes out of beta early next year. And Microsoft will throw in upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. Microsoft is moving to beta 2 with the s...

Bentley Radcliff, who used to work in marketing at Apple and Sun – no Microsoft fanboy he but curious about Redmond’s approach to the cloud – wanted to go to its Worldwide Partner Conference this week so we handed him a reporter’s notebook and sent him on his way. Miracle of miracle he...

GCommerce's Virtual Inventory Cloud (VIC) will transform the special order cycle, in some cases from 15 minutes to 15 seconds -- a 6,000 percent change. Built to scale rapidly at the industry level, VIC transforms the drop ship special order model for the distribution supply chain. Tha...

NetApp on Monday announced enhanced integration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise-class data protection solutions to cloud service providers by leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Although enterprise-class data protection has historically been too expen...

Fujitsu Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a new worldwide cloud computing partnership that enables Fujitsu to deploy the Windows Azure platform appliance in Fujitsu datacenters. Fujitsu will deliver a comprehensive set of new cloud services and solutions, including system in...

Microsoft Corp. and eBay on Monday announced that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. This is a significant joint engineering effort that will couple the innovation and power of the Windows Azure platform appl...

Dell and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a strategic partnership in which Dell intends to use the Windows Azure platform appliance, introduced by Microsoft, as a part of its Dell Services Cloud to develop and deliver next-generation cloud services. The Windows Azure platform applia...

According to the Nikkei July 10 morning edition, Fujitsu and Microsoft are planning to share data centers worldwide in a bid to catch up to the world's Cloud computing pioneers in the business of providing software and computing services online. The two companies are considering joint ...

Apparently Microsoft had a chin wag with computer makers in April about what Windows 8 might look like so they can make plans because a set of the “NDA” “Microsoft Confidential” PowerPoints used at the meeting seem to have turned up on an Italian web site called Windowsette over the we...

In what has become a typical negotiating tactic in patent cases, salesforce.com has answered Microsoft’s charge of patent infringement with a countersuit. For amusement’s sake, it’s using Microsoft’s old nemesis David Boies for the job. He’s the hired gun the Justice Department broug...

Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference....

Server application virtualization pioneer AppZero and OpSource, a provider of enterprise cloud and managed hosting, on Wednesday announced a partnership that will make it easy for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to move their server-based Microsoft and SAP applicati...

Office 2010 went on sale to consumers and small businesses Tuesday and Microsoft’s free lightweight Office Web Apps version of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint, its answer to the three-year-old Google Apps, was made generally available. The webby stuff is good on Macs and phones as ...

If you’re looking for Xenocode, it’s morphed. Now it’s a warmer, friendly, consumer-y Spoon. And Spoon has launched a Spoon Server that’s supposed deliver Windows desktop apps instantly over the web without installs, long downloads or dependencies such as .NET Framework, Adobe Air an...

According to CRN Microsoft has added 300–500 direct sales people to pitch its cloud strategy to both end users and partners starting July 1, the beginning of the company’s new fiscal year. Microsoft general manager, partner strategy for the US Public Sector Vince Menzione said at a con...

On July 13, Microsoft will officially retire Windows XP Service Pack 2. Although it will continue to provide security updates for XP Service Pack 3, it will stop providing patches for the older SP2. Microsoft offers support for its products for five years and extended support for anoth...

Azul Systems, the Java server appliance house, says Java, Ruby and, for that matter, .NET managed runtimes are pushed to their limits and basically crippled. Their response times are inconsistent, their scale is limited, and they’re unable to exploit modern commodity hardware with ...

Microsoft's Vince Menzione, General Manager for Microsoft's partner strategy in the US public sector, has been underlining his company's "end-to-end commitment to cloud computing." In a magazine interview this week Menzione declared: "All of our salespeople will be leading with cloud.....

Microsoft expects to have a public beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) out by next month. There won’t be any new Windows 7-specific features and most of the bug fixes have already been released making it a largely ceremonial milestone that many companies like to pass before they dep...

Ahead of general release June 15 and following release to the corporate world last month, Microsoft Monday said its browser-based Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland, SkyDrive being its free browser-based storage and document shar...

Microsoft has updated its Windows Azure SDK with support for the new and improved .NET Framework 4, Visual Studio 2010 tools and IntelliTrace bug tracking while its cloud database SQL Azure got spatial data support and 50GB worth of storage. There’s a the public preview out of SQL ...

The unholy alliance of Microsoft and Novell says it’s got some HPC supercomputing cross-platform widgetry developed in their joint Interoperability Lab in Massachusetts that’s good for customers deploying server workload management across SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Se...

On Steve Jobs’ contention that this is now a post-PC world: “I think that people are going to be using PCs in greater and greater numbers for years to come.” But PCs will look different. They’ll evolve. They’ll get smaller, get touch, get different interfaces, their insides will change...