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Intel completes Wind River acquisition
News The chipmaker now owns the embedded software specialist, whose technology is used in mobile phones, cars and the Mars rovers [20 Jul 2009]
BMC management tool rides Amazon cloud
News The new BSM platform aims to let companies manage resources from internal datacentres and Amazon's EC2 cloud services via a single console [17 Jul 2009]
Reuze simplifies move from mainframe to Windows
News The new Micro Focus tool promises to help companies move their Cobol-based business processes to Windows without having to rewrite applications [16 Jul 2009]
Ballmer unfazed by Google Chrome OS
News Microsoft's chief executive says having one client operating system is better than two — a lesson Microsoft learned some years ago [16 Jul 2009]
Huge demand for Windows 7 pre-orders in Europe
News Microsoft's European deal for ordering the new operating system at a discount appears to be selling out quickly [16 Jul 2009]
MontaVista shows one-second Linux boot
News MontaVista Software says its embedded Linux distribution has achieved the ability to boot in one second, using optimisations aimed at industrial automation and similar applications [15 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Muglia: No Azure in a box
News Microsoft Server and Tools division head Bob Muglia talks about why the Windows Server operating system won't just become a packaged version of Azure [15 Jul 2009]
Google sets sights on Lotus Notes customers
News The search giant has released a migration tool to help Lotus Notes users migrate their mail, calendar and contacts over to Google Apps [15 Jul 2009]
Microsoft Office chief on Google, costs and the cloud
Q&A In a wide-ranging interview, Stephen Elop talks about Microsoft's rival, the state of the economy and why people will still buy Office in a cloudy world [15 Jul 2009]
Windows 7 pre-orders begin
News UK customers are now able pre-order Windows 7 ahead of its October release date, and Amazon reports a higher level of pre-launch demand than for Vista [15 Jul 2009]
Citrix, Microsoft team up on virtual desktops
News The planned integration of Citrix XenApp and Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager is meant to simplify the delivery of applications in a mixed virtualisation environment [14 Jul 2009]
End of an era for Office 2000
News Support for Office 2000 expired on Tuesday, ten years after Steve Ballmer announced Microsoft wanted to launch a web-based version of the productivity suite [14 Jul 2009]
Microsoft Azure evangelist tackles cloud doubts
Q&A Microsoft developer and platform evangelist Mark Taylor talks risk, resilience, private clouds and interoperability [14 Jul 2009]
Microsoft sets Azure pricing and service levels
News For the first time, the software giant has detailed the costs and contract terms for its cloud platform [14 Jul 2009]
Businesses to get Windows 7 before retail launch
News The software maker has said volume-licence customers can order Windows 7 through partners from 1 September [14 Jul 2009]
Adobe begins public testing of ColdFusion 9
News Beta versions of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder have been released, promising better integration with Microsoft Office and Adobe's Flash platform [13 Jul 2009]
Many companies plan to skip Windows 7 rollout
News In a recent poll, 60 percent of IT administrators said they have no plans to move to Microsoft's new operating system [13 Jul 2009]
Microsoft releases Office 2010 technical preview
News The software maker has kicked off an invitation-only preview of the desktop parts of the new Office, although access to the browser-based versions will have to wait [13 Jul 2009]
Microsoft shares vision for Silverlight success
News The software maker concedes it has a long way to go to reach the ubiquity of Adobe's flash, but notes it has come a long way in a little less than two years [13 Jul 2009]
Microsoft to integrate Twitter into its CRM
News Businesses will be able to use Twitter to engage customers through Microsoft's Dynamics CRM software within the next few weeks [10 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS: What does it mean for Android?
Analysis Google already has what seems to be a viable netbook operating system in Android, so why does it need Chrome OS too? [10 Jul 2009]
Google search filters for free-to-use images
News New options in Google's search tool let people filter images according to their licensing status, allowing users to find photos free for commercial reuse [10 Jul 2009]
Silverlight 3 makes an early debut
News The final version of Silverlight 3 has been released to the web, a day ahead of the product's launch event in San Francisco [10 Jul 2009]
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding
News Small European businesses need Europe-hosted cloud-computing services within five years, according to telecoms and media commissioner Viviane Reding [09 Jul 2009]
XHTML 2 is finally laid to rest
News It was meant to set standards, but from its beginning, XHTML 2 was due a slow demise [09 Jul 2009]
