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Microsofts Tech Ed Focus: Empowering the IT Worker

ORLANDO, Fla.—At the Microsoft Tech Ed 2005 conference here Monday morning, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer will kick off the show with a keynote...

Ballmer Beats Drum for IT Workers

ORLANDO, Fla.—There has never been a more exciting time to be in information technology than right now, and the rate of innovation and impact...

IBM Rational Backs Off on .Net Tools Support

IBM and Microsoft Corp.s fight for development environment supremacy is heating up about as fast as the onset of summer, with both sides digging...

Community Debates Microsofts Open-Source Agenda

Analysts and insiders—including Linus Torvalds—say they think that Microsofts move to start a dialogue with the open-source community shows that the company is recognizing...

Microsoft Adds XML File Formats to Office 12

Microsoft continues to slowly trickle out bits of information about its Office 12 suite. On Thursday the company will announce that it plans to...

XML in Office 12 Spells Third-Party Opportunity

According to industry analysts and vendors, Microsofts decision to make XML-based file formats part of Office 12 documents will likely present new opportunities, and...

EUs Hands May Be Tied in Microsoft Case

European regulators may be powerless to give open-source competitors effective access to Microsofts server protocols, despite antitrust rulings against the company and the EUs...

Future of IT Holds Flukes Aplenty

What is the future of information technology? If you listen to many of the prominent voices speaking about IT today, the future doesnt seem...

Developers Should Carry the Banner of Software Standards

Software standards used to be developed by programmers, for programmers, as tools for ensuring interoperability and achieving greater leverage for developers skills. Increasingly, though, development...

IBM Boosts ISV Support

As part of its move to help ISVs sell more of their wares—and, in turn, more IBM hardware, storage, middleware and services—IBM announced this...