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As part of its burgeoning IP-licensing strategy, Microsoft Corp. has established a new division that will be charged with licensing technologies developed by Microsoft Research to startups and venture capitalists. Microsoft announced on Wednesday the formation of its new six-person IP Ventures group, as well as a list of 20 technologies developed by Microsoft Research […]

Social-networking technologies, including blogs, Wikis, and RSS, are likely to play a key part in the Longhorn “Aero” interface, based on a recent reorganization at Microsoft Corp. In late April, the Redmond, Wash., software developer quietly reassigned Lili Cheng, group manager of Microsoft Researchs social-computing group, to the Windows Shell interface team. “Im moving with […]

In a move intended to provide a combined SAN and file networking infrastructure to enterprises using Microsofts Windows Server 2003 platform, Brocade Communications has purchased a minority ownership share in privately held Tacit Networks. The purchase will allow Brocade Communications Systems Inc. to add Tacit Networks Inc.s WAFS (wide-area file services) solution built on Microsoft […]

As Microsoft Corp. enters its third decade of Windows computing, the companys effort is focused on the move to 64-bit computing and the release of Windows Longhorn. At last weeks WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) in Seattle, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli to talk […]

With the job market a little healthier in most regions than it has been in four years, its time to gird your loins and participate in a dangerous but useful workplace sport: purging the toxic waste among you. While only a small minority of all the managers in large American organizations, the presence of Toxies […]

You would think that after four decades of computing, we IT professionals would have our acts together on project management. Sadly, many of us dont. One of the reasons for this, I believe, is that project scope gets the better of us. Why? We dont have a standard measurement scale that gives us a clue […]

Microsoft Corp.s third decade of Windows computing initially will be dominated by the move to 64-bit computing and the release of “Longhorn.” This future includes greater functionality, better usability, tighter security, seamless integration among devices and marked improvements in productivity for all, according to Bill Gates. Sharing his vision for the next decade, the Redmond, […]

F5 Networks Inc. is on a roll. Late last month, the vendor of application traffic management/ optimization tools posted a 67 percent revenue increase for its second fiscal quarter, compared with the same quarter a year ago, and a 13 percent rise from its first fiscal quarter. President and CEO John McAdam, at the helm […]

It looks like the Longhorn information floodgates are officially open—again. Microsoft employee and Longhorn evangelist Robert Scoble announced on his blog this weekend that he has been authorized to restart the “Team 99” Longhorn evangelism effort. On Microsofts Channel 9 Web site, Scoble is soliciting member nominations for the third-party evangelism team, which initially is […]

God help us; were in the hands of engineers.” – Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park In my last column I explained how organizations that enforce the strictest corporate security are often the ones that end up being the least secure. Contemporary technology and the way contemporary technologists implement it are partially to blame, but most […]

SEATTLE—Although Longhorn isnt slated to be available until “holiday 2006,” some PC users are already wondering what kinds of PCs will be able to run the next version of Windows. Microsoft Corp. officials at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, here this week attempted to provide some answers, though they were vague. In the […]

Graphics professionals everywhere want to reap the benefits of soft proofing. Instead of paying for shipping and waiting for a hard-copy proof, publishers can eyeball print designs and documents on a monitor. However, doing it right is easier said than done—especially when it comes to proofing color images. While it may take time, effort and […]