Red Hat's desktop software unit has revealed it's shelved plans to launch desktop Linux for the consumer market.
Latest US figures have indicated that Google's search market share has grown even further, as the search giant continues to chip away at Yahoo and Microsoft.
Microsoft's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has said that the software giant has a long way to go to compete with Google when it comes to search and advertising.
Microsoft knows its sales model for emerging markets around the world isn't working. But just how to fix that model isn't clear, company executives said last week.
After its top-secret merger negotiations with SAP were revealed this month, Microsoft's motivation for the deal was quickly identified: The software giant was looking to gain long-sought enterprise clout through the German company's upscale customer base.
Microsoft is going to let everyone -- even people with an illegal pirate copy of Windows XP -- download IE7 because the software giant really cares about the safety and security of all Internet users. (But don't mention Firefox ...)
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Microsoft has released its second commercial starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Have you seen it yet?
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP arguably its best operating system to date.
At the CeBIT exhibition in Germany this week, Steve Ballmer got on stage and told the world that Microsoft takes "green" issues seriously.
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Consultants sometimes don't spend enough time developing their marketing and networking skills, but these two talents can have significant career and monetary benefits.
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Unisys, one of the few companies remaining in the mainframe market, will begin selling a new high-end system Monday that includes features to run advanced software.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about Microsoft's move into virtualisation and shares his thoughts on increasing the overall market and how his company differs from VMWare.
The timing couldn't have been worse. What with Android phones now hitting the market and updates to Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry, Microsoft is telling partners to expect delays receiving Mobile Windows 7. On the CNET News Daily Debrief, Charles Cooper speaks with Ina Fried, who broke the news of the delay.
Microsoft has learned some very serious lessons when it comes to complying with Web standards after taking heavy criticism from the industry and, more importantly, a beating in the browser market share.
Andy Solterbeck, the VP of product strategy and management at SafeNET, talks about why IT security is moving beyond things like anti-virus and firewalls.
SAP's aggressive push into the SME space isn't on the back of its traditional market shrinking, according to SAP ANZ managing director Alan Hyde.
Once the toast of the gadget market, personal digital assistants have been losing some of their fizz and in 2002 continued a steady slide.
Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
It's no secret that Microsoft dominates the productivity suite market, but that doesn't mean it's the only way to go.
According to court documents, the founder of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit fought a hard battle to keep Mac Office 97 alive.
Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a "closed device" and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.
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