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Nortel, Microsoft Add to Joint Unified Communications Line

New products are based on the companies' collaboration on server integration.

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.

Report: Google, Microsoft To Battle Over Digg

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

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.

Document Interoperability Initiative Unveiled by Microsoft

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

Apple To Add Exchange Support to iPhones

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

Microsoft To Release 4 Critical Office Patches Tuesday

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

Zend Core PHP Certified for Windows Server 2008

Companies assert that past performance and reliability issues have been settled.

MIX08 Kicks Off With First IE 8 and Silverlight 2 Betas

Highly anticipated betas get a debut.

Enterprise Software Future Profiled in Report

A Forrester report describes software-as-a-service and open source solutions as potential agents for change.

VSLive! San Francisco Preview: LINQ to SQL Q&A with Perry Birch

Perry Birch shares his take on the best LINQ to SQL features, and walks you through the biggest changes from ObjectSpaces and more.

Microsoft Expands Office Live Workspace Beta Worldwide

Online extension to Microsoft Office enables collaboration.

Standards Will Be Default in IE 8

Redmond changed course due to "Interoperability Principles," according Microsoft blogger.

Microsoft and Google Square Off for Long-Term SaaS Battle

Microsoft rolled out new software-as-a-service betas, while Google added to its Apps offerings.

Vista Pricing Cut Worldwide

Cost reductions will coincide with SP1 retail availability.