Now that the Court of Appeals has issued its ruling in the NOISe (Netscape/AOL, Oracle, IBM, and Sun) vs. Microsoft Corporation case (a.k.a., the United States Department of Justice [DOJ] vs. Microsoft), corporations are left to deal with the aftermath. How both…

Editor’s note: Tim Landgrave, a weekly columnist for our CIO Republic, was recently asked how the acquisition of Navision would affect consultants and the midmarket ERP accounting software landscape. He spoke with Microsoft about the issue. Here’s what they had to say…

By now, you’ve probably heard some rumblings about Microsoft’s latest strategy to move their products and customers forward while leveraging the Internet. What began with “Information at your fingertips” has become “Information on any device, anywhere anytime.” The technical underpinnings of this…

So there I was trying my best to get a midlevel Microsoft manager to take the bait. “Does Microsoft now feel confident it’s found a way to slow the rise of Firefox–maybe even win back some lost customers?” Earlier in the day,…

Microsoft had multiple chances to release a patch for the ANI (Animated Cursor) Exploit in the months of January, February, and March but failed to release any patches for the vulnerability that was originally disclosed privately to Microsoft on December 20, 2006….

When Microsoft gets into the game, other companies start to worry—and with good reason. Past experience shows that once the software giant sets its sights on a technology, it often comes to dominate the market, even when there are already well-established players….