Microsoft Sued; Christmas Comes Early for Z4 Technologies
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Live Documents, A Microsoft Office Killer?
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Sabeer Bhatia, one of the people to receive $400 million from Microsoft for the purchase of Hotmail in 1998, is back, and he wants to take on Microsoft’s Office suite this time. Live Documents is a free alternative to Microsoft’s core business app, Office. With Flash based alternatives for those ...
Is The Microsoft Zune Still Failing?
Friday, November 23rd, 2007On a slow news week, people will believe anything, I suppose. The current headline of the minute stems from Roughly Drafted’s article “Why the Microsoft Zune is Still Failing.” I don’t think there is any doubt that the previous incarnations were something of a flop. I know a grand total ...
Microsoft Takes on Google Apps
Monday, November 19th, 2007After establishing Windows Live services as an integrated suite of solutions and online social network, Windows is now letting you create communities of your own. Windows Live Community Builder is for businesses and non profits to create a community for better working with team and organization members with its ...
Google Guns at Microsoft with Email Migration API
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Google has released the Google Apps Email Migration API, which allows users to migrate email from their servers into Gmail. This follows the addition of IMAP support to Gmail last month. For corporate users, where Microsoft Outlook is still the norm, this makes Google Apps a far more ...
Microsoft Wants to Rule the Media World Too
Saturday, November 17th, 2007We heard of Microsoft’s plans earlier to take over the web, especially in terms of search and its ad market. Now we’re hearing of the company’s plans to take over media. Of course the first thing that comes to mind is Microsoft’s ongoing mission for a connected ...
Microsoft Continues War on Open Source
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007It s no secret that Microsoft has been unhappy with the open source software movement for a long time. Ever since Eric Raymond posted the first Halloween document in 1988 it s been clear that the software giant considers such software a threat to its monopoly. Microsoft s latest ...
What we can Learn from Two Linux vs. Microsoft Studies
Monday, December 12th, 2005The question of which platform is better for running a business Windows or Linux has inspired debates that are nearly religious in their vehemence. Two studies came out this year that purport to settle the question at least when it comes to issues of security and reliability. ...
