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Microsoft has decided to slash several key features from its Windows Server virtualization software, code-named "Viridian," in an effort to meet quality goals and a release deadline. The new hypervisor-based virtualization technology, available as part of Windows Server "Longhorn," will ship without...
Veteran users will barely recognize Microsoft Word 2007 as their venerable word processor of choice. That can be good or bad, depending on how you've used Word in the past. If you're a mechanic and loved tinkering with the host of customizable features in the older versions of Word, you'll very like...
After more than two years of testing, Microsoft is launching Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, making it available in 36 languages across the world. The software giant has closed the public testing period and has started the process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its W...
Adobe Systems created a media tsunami earlier this month when it released its Creative Suite 3, a two-year project designed to roll all the company's formidable software packages for creative types into an integrated monolith. Needless to say, since the package costs more than $1,000, it isn't somet...
When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight application platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market. The availability of Silverlight will undoubtedly ...
Microsoft released last week details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls. Microsoft developed SecPAL, or Security Policy Assertion Language, as a research project to develop a language for expressin...
Microsoft has released the first publicly available beta of its next-generation Windows server operating system, code-named "Longhorn." Longhorn Beta 3, the first feature-complete version of the product, builds on Windows Server 2003 by addressing the automation of daily management tasks, enhanced s...
The maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail device, Research In Motion (RIM), plans to let Windows Mobile-based devices run virtual BlackBerry applications. RIM will offer the new software solution later this year for select devices that run on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software wi...
In the battle to bridge the world's digital divide, the world's largest software company will offer a special suite of Microsoft solutions to children in developing nations for a rock-bottom price of $3. The program is an expansion of Microsoft's Unlimited Potential initiative and its Partners in Le...
In yet another not-so-subtle challenge to the dominance of Microsoft's Office software suite, Google announced on Tuesday that it will be adding presentation software to its Google Apps suite of office software. Due this summer, it will complement the word-processing and spreadsheet software Google ...
With nearly simultaneous announcements Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas, Microsoft and Adobe have started a turf war over the future of Internet video and next-generation rich Internet application solutions. On one hand, Microsoft announced Silverlight, whic...
Microsoft on Monday unveiled Silverlight, a new browser plug-in designed to compete head-to-head with Adobe's Flash plug-in. Announced at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas, Microsoft says the new cross-platform application will let Web publishers deliver rich interacti...
The biggest problem with online streaming video is that one must be connected to the Internet to view it. That problem may be mitigated by Adobe's new media player. The company on Monday announced at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas a new Flash-focused, application-ba...
The organization responsible for developing security measures for next-generation DVDs said it has plugged a hole that allowed hackers to locate and unlock encryption keys for movies released on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. The Advanced Access Content System License Administrator has responded to recen...
Although digital still camera makers are making great strides in improving the video capabilities of their products, they still have some distance to go before they catch up with conventional camcorders. Sure, we'd all like to haul around less tech when documenting our lives, but for now, two camera...
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