European Commission official Neelie Kroes urged governments to use software incorporating open standards, to avoid vendor lock-in.
The company cites gains in the high-performance computing market, with nine universities adopting Microsoft's technology.
Four countries' appeals put previous approval on hold.
Highlights of the latest open office productivity suite include Mac OS X support and converters for Office 2007 documents.
Critical patches focus on IE, DirectX and Bluetooth.
MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers can now test a full-featured version of the relational database management system.
The company's Sandcastle project omitted the source code, and thus failed to meet open source licensing requirements.
In a bid to modernize the embedded version of its Windows software, Microsoft this week has released the community technology preview (CTP) of a newly revamped version set to ship by year's end.
Bill Gates Tuesday kicked off the annual Tech-Ed Conference with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.
Visual modeling tools will first appear as Visual Studio add-ons.
Microsoft Corp. is now selling its wares directly to consumers.
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
Shareholders accuse Yahoo of "poison pills" in form of secret severance plan, Google deal.
Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.
There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.
While last month's JavaOne conference focused on the next generation of the Java platform, there's a growing ecosystem of tools to connect existing Java-based apps to those based on Microsoft's .NET environment.
Codejock Technologies LLC has upgraded its toolkits for those developing Visual C++ and ActiveX controls.
JavaOne conference showcases growing number of tools connecting Java and .NET applications.
MySQL becoming a viable platform for .NET developers.
Embarcadero Technologies will purchase CodeGear from Borland, and plans to continue support for CodeGear products.