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Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Ready for release
News Microsoft said yesterday it has finished work on SQL Server 2008, the latest version of its database software. Although its release was delayed from its initial target, Microsoft said it was able to meet its goal of having a new version within 24... [07 Aug 2008]
Credit crunch prompts open source adoption
News The large majority of participants - 84.5 per cent said their products ran on Windows or interoperate with Microsoft products, with only nine per cent reporting Microsoft-free environments. For instance, a Forrester Research survey earlier this... [29 Jul 2008]
Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
News With products ranging from the Xbox to Windows and SQL Server to the Dynamics CRM portfolio, the company has a lot to contend with. Bill Gates steps down as Microsoft chairman on 27 June, effectively ending his day-to-day involvement with the company. [24 Jun 2008]
Microsoft strikes back at open source critics
News Microsoft said, however, its new interoperability principles operate across its high-volume products: Windows Vista (including the .Net Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint... [18 Mar 2008]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News Up to 90 per cent of the ATMs in the UK could be at risk from these attacks as they rely on desktop PC technology - usually Intel hardware and Windows operating systems - linked to other machines - some connected to the internet - in the bank's... [04 Mar 2008]
Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue
News Microsoft said the pledge will ultimately extend to Windows Vista, the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. As a first step, Microsoft will publish protocols for... [22 Feb 2008]
Microsoft reaches Windows Server 2008 milestone
News Microsoft has reached another milestone on the road to the release of Windows Server 2008. Microsoft plans to launch the product, along with SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, at an event in Los Angeles. [06 Dec 2007]
Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'
News The digital watches that use Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology have remained geek toys, and his dream of an all-new Windows file system based on SQL found itself on the cutting-room floor when Longhorn became Vista. [19 Oct 2007]
Mortgage lender banks on finance software
News OneLife has also purchased licences for CODA's XL reporting tool and its Assets module, and will run the CODA Financials on a Microsoft Windows server-based system with a Microsoft SQL Server database. [16 Aug 2007]
Xbox boosts Microsoft's bottom-line
News The outlook is affected by the fact that Microsoft expects to defer $1.5bn in revenue to account for a coupon programme in which buyers of Office and Windows this holiday season will be able to upgrade at reduced cost to Office 2007 and Windows... [27 Oct 2006]
Microsoft pledges aid for ageing PCs
News In some cases, though, Microsoft has taken more than three years to prepare an update - the recent release of SQL Server took five years; and Windows Vista is expected to debut early next year, more than five years after Windows XP. [13 Jul 2006]
Microsoft: Yes to online business services
News While Microsoft has launched consumer-oriented online services, such as Windows Live, until now it hadn't fully explained how it sees the trend affecting companies. He said: "Microsoft is taking a very pragmatic approach, a seamless, blended client... [12 Jun 2006]
Two new WMF flaws emerge
News IIS is Internet Information Services (the web server part of Windows Server), SQL Server is Microsoft's database product, and RPC is the Remote Procedure Call component. A few years ago it was IIS, then SQL Server, then RPC, now it's the Windows... [10 Jan 2006]
Gates to bang supercomputing drum
News Gates is slated to speak at the SC05 supercomputing conference - a first for Microsoft - where he will announce the company has entered Beta-2 testing of its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. Microsoft confirmed reports which surfaced last year... [15 Nov 2005]
CIO Jury: Microsoft licensing slammed by UK IT chiefs
News One IT director who did not wish to be named simply said open source "looks more and more tempting" while Paul Broome, IT director at 192.com, said he plans to migrate off Windows server and SQL server as soon as he can. [21 Sep 2005]
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