The largest software company worldwide, among consumers and businesses, Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. Since then, the company has grown to corner the software market with its Windows server and desktop operating systems and the applications associated with those systems, but Microsoft's success has not been without pain -- most notably, perhaps, its antitrust litigation in both Europe and in the U.S. Its Office productivity suite and its Internet Explorer Web browser are also very popular.
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Ann All spoke with several employees of SharePoint360 , a SharePoint hosting and consulting company specializing in business intelligence that is included in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for the Gemini technology. (Gemini was recently renamed PowerPivot.) SharePoint360 is the... More >
Project and Portfolio Management Keeps Development on Track
Ann All spoke with Bruce Randall, director of product marketing, HP Project & Portfolio Management Center, HP Software & Solutions. All: What are the primary benefits of using Agile frameworks for software development? Randall: There’s certainly a lot of interest in it. A number of... More >
Skype Takes Aim at Business
Carl Weinschenk spoke with Stefan Oberg, the vice president and general manager of Skype for Business . Weinschenk: Where is Skype as a business tool today? Oberg: Skype has been around now for six years, all the while targeting the mass market consumer. The persona is of a soccer mom who... More >
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Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
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Microsoft Helps Discover Flaw in Google Plug-In for IE
Another flaw has been discovered in Google's Chrome browser, reports The Register . The flaw in the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users, discovered with the help of Microsoft, allows hackers to bypass security controls and drop malware onto vulnerable systems. Google has acknowledged the flaw and... More >
Microsoft Releases Surface SDK
Microsoft officially released its Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition at its Professional Developers Conference 2009. The SDK is available for free for anyone who wants to develop on the device, however, a Microsoft Surface is required to deploy an application, says Ars Technica . According... More >
Dell Takes a Hit in Third Quarter
Dell reported profits for the third quarter fell 54 percent , which sent its stock price reeling. Bloomberg blamed lost market share and higher PC component costs. The PC maker reported net income of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion, a decline of 15 percent. At a time when other tech companies -- Intel,... More >
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