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Byline: John Fontana Microsoft plans to invest heavily in its cloud platform but expects to see little revenue for two to three years, Bob Muglia, the president of the server [...]

Byline: John Fontana Ten years ago today, Microsoft released its Active Directory technology to skepticism that it could build an infrastructure technology to anchor user management and access control. Now [...]

Byline: John Fontana Identity and privacy expert Gerry Gebel is leaving the Burton Group to take a position leading security firm Axiomatics's expansion into the U.S. market. Gebel, who is [...]

Byline: John Fontana Cyclist Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after a positive drug test, is now being labeled a computer hacker by France, which has [...]

Byline: John Fontana IBM/Lotus took another stab at Microsoft Office, releasing a beta 2 version of Symphony 3.0, its free suite of productivity applications. Released Thursday, the beta is the [...]

Byline: John Fontana Here are two keys words for Microsoft Windows shops to remember come this Patch Tuesday: 'six' and 'restart.' Six is the number of a critical bulletins Microsoft [...]

Byline: John Fontana The CodePlex Foundation, an organization funded and created by Microsoft, Wednesday named its first executive director, but still has not begun to form its permanent board as [...]

Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Tuesday said it will deepen ties between its Visual Studio development tools and the secure applications development processes first developed inside the company and now available [...]

Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Thursday said 60 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold in the past six months, but most of those have been from the consumer side and [...]

Byline: John Fontana Microsoft shouldn't be shaking in its boots after this week's unveiling of the Apple iPad, but the tablet computer could give the software giant fits in the [...]

Byline: John Fontana Despite platform improvements coming in Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 server, the software is likely to be overkill for users seeking to meet isolated and specific requirements, according to [...]

Byline: John Fontana Free software is becoming increasingly popular with CIOs, as nearly two-thirds of companies are using it on their desktops and for applications, according to a new survey. [...]

Byline: John Fontana ORLANDO - IBM/Lotus is juicing its collaboration tools with a dose of analytics and cloud-based integration with the belief it can redefine the technology, meet the needs [...]

Byline: John Fontana ORLANDO -- IBM/Lotus is rolling out a set of incremental upgrades across its product lines over the coming 12 month, including new capabilities in Notes/Domino, Sametime, Connections [...]

Byline: John Fontana ORLANDO -- IBM/Lotus Monday hinted at its collaboration future by unveiling an ambitious plan called Project Vulcan that exists in concept only but is aimed at a [...]

Byline: John Fontana Orlando - IBM is going into the mobile phone business with plans to resell RIM's Blackberry mobile devices pre-loaded with IBM's collaboration software. The effort is part [...]

Byline: John Fontana IBM/Lotus will ship the next version of its free Symphony productivity suite, code-named Vienna, before the end of June and then follow it up with two more [...]

Byline: John Fontana Like clockwork, IBM/Lotus and Microsoft are throwing punches at each other's product lineup just as Lotusphere and its near 7,000 attendees are set to kickoff a weeklong [...]

Byline: John Fontana Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company is staying in China even though rival Google is talking about pulling out following a cyber attack on its systems. [...]

Byline: John Fontana IBM/Lotus will use next week's Lotusphere conference to show its customers a long-term collaboration and cloud strategy that stretches well into the future and across its portfolio [...]

Byline: John Fontana Ten years ago on Jan. 13, 2000, Microsoft's Bill Gates turned over the CEO reins to Steve Ballmer, who emphasized then that the Internet would be the [...]

Byline: John Fontana VMware Tuesday said it was buying Yahoo's Zimbra open source messaging business as a way to bolster its evolving collaboration platform. Terms of the deal were not [...]

Byline: John Fontana IBM Tuesday reorganized the structure of its Software Group, including moving Lotus General Manager Bob Picciano back to a leadership role in sales, inserting Alistair Rennie as [...]

Byline: John Fontana Facebook Tuesday joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Gold sponsor, looking to cement its commitment to open source and pledging to help drive the group into [...]

Byline: John Fontana Microsoft doesn't have a business model problem in the mobile market, but its phones are skewed toward business users at the expense of consumers and are not [...]

Byline: John Fontana MSI and Novell will ship in February the first netbook based on the SUSE Moblin open-source Linux operating system. The pair is showing the device at this [...]

Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Tuesday said it would include an advertising-supported version of Office 2010 on new PCs as well as offer users a virtualized version that stream Office to [...]