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Stories by Elizabeth Montalbano

  • Microsoft partners to beef up antiphishing tools

    Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer (IE) 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter, the company said Thursday.

  • Microsoft releases Great Plains update

    Microsoft next month will begin shipping the first major update of its Great Plains enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite since the software was rebranded under the Dynamics moniker. The new software, called Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0, will be generally available in English-language versions on Dec. 19, with versions in other languages to be released in the first quarter of 2006, a Microsoft executive said.

  • Gartner: Proceed with caution on Vista upgrade

    A new research report by Gartner advises customers that they likely won't complete a full migration to Windows Vista until 2008, even though the next version of Microsoft's Windows client OS is scheduled to ship at the end of 2006.

  • Ballmer eyes enterprise with new products

    SAN FRANCISCO: If there is one thing Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, made clear at Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 launch event, it's that the new business software products from the company are a good fit for enterprise deployments.

  • Microsoft to talk up Windows for clusters

    Microsoft will tout its version of Windows for high-performance computing at the Supercomputing 2005 show this week in Seattle, but observers said the company faces a considerable challenge in selling the OS for compute-intensive environments already dominated by Unix.

  • Despite hype, Microsoft lacks Web 2.0 savvy

    Though the powers that be at Microsoft seem to have finally grasped the impact of the Internet on the future of packaged software, industry observers and a key rival said the company still must prove that its plan to compete in the Web 2.0 marketplace is more than just hype.

  • Microsoft, Cisco support ICE for VoIP

    Microsoft and Cisco Systems have teamed up to support a protocol for communicating across network address translators (NATs) that they believe will hasten the adoption of VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) for enterprises.

  • Ballmer eyes enterprise with new products

    If there is one thing Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer made clear at Microsoft's launch event Monday, it's that the new business software products from the company are a good fit for enterprise deployments.

  • Gates, Ozzie go 'Live' with Microsoft services plan

    As widely expected, Microsoft Tuesday unveiled its software-as-a-service strategy, an effort to provide a more seamless connection between customers and their business and personal data by offering a range of services accessed over the Web by various devices.

  • Microsoft sets date to release Windows Vista to OEMs

    Microsoft is expected to release to manufacturing the next version of its Windows desktop OS on July 25, 2006, to ensure PC vendors will have it on machines in time for the 2006 holiday season in the U.S., according to sources familiar with the company's plans.