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Lawsuit May Have Driven Vista Virtualization

Court document states that Vista was opened to virtualization in response to a Phoenix Technologies lawsuit.

Murdoch Out; Yahoo Continues Fighting Microsoft

News Corp. buyout of Yahoo won't happen, Chairman says.

Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Excel, Outlook, Web Component and Office Flaws

Security problems in Microsoft Office suite addressed in latest patches.

Sun-Microsoft Collab Results in Interop Center

Both companies also develop guidelines for implementing Exchange Server 2007 on Sun server and storage hardware.

SOA Excellence: Some Lessons Learned

The role of governance was highlighted by Thomson Financial's chief architect in a SOA Forum talk.

SaaS on the Rise With Small-to-Medium Businesses

Big businesses, with their larger infrastructures, are not as interested, report suggests.

Coral8 Updates CEP Software

New solution adds querying capabilities using SQL.

CodeGear Releases 3rd Rail 1.1, Donates Ruby Debugger

Company donates debug tool to Eclipse project.

Novell VP Openly Laments Microsoft Deal

According to IDG news service, Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza publicly decried his company's patent licensing deal with Microsoft at Redmond's MIX08 conference last week in Las Vegas.

Software AG Releases Mainframe Modernization Suite

Solutions aim to make it easier to modernize applications using a service-oriented architecture.

Software AG Releases Mainframe Modernization Suite

Enterprise solution provider Software AG announced its webMethods Application Modernization Suite -- software designed to bring service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and other improvements to standard mainframe infrastructures.

Report: Google, Microsoft To Battle Over Digg

Bid for news aggregation site allegedly may hit the more than $200 million mark.

Flux 7.7 Java Management App Released

Flux Corp. last month released the latest version of its Java-based commercial job scheduler, file transfer and workflow management solution, which is designed to support the needs of Java application development teams.

Ballmer Acknowledges Mistakes, Offers Insights on Roadmap at MIX08

Microsoft's CEO acknowledged frustration with the acceptance of Windows Vista and the company's failure to upgrade its Internet Explorer browser more routinely, as well the questionable decision to pursue separate development paths for Internet Explorer and the .NET Framework.

Microsoft Creates IT Job Portal for Students

Portal points college students to entry-level IT jobs.

Trustworthy Computing: Examining Trust

Microsoft's Trustworthy Academic Advisory Board has been keeping tabs on security issues -- external as well as internal -- that continue to challenge Microsoft's developers. Here's a peek into the board, which marks five years on watch.

VMware Supports BEA's Effort To Virtualize Java Apps

The collaborative effort is aimed at supporting BEA's LiquidVM platform.

Apple To Add Exchange Support to iPhones

A beta of the Apple iPhone software development kit was released.

Document Interoperability Initiative Unveiled by Microsoft

Move aims to assure the interoperability of OOXML, ODF and other document formats.

Microsoft To Release 4 Critical Office Patches Tuesday

The fixes will address remote code execution security issues in Office products.