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  • News: OpenOffice takes on Microsoft Sharepoint

    Dutch company O3Spaces has released collaboration software that it says rivals Microsoft's SharePoint.

  • News: Siemens struggles to find buyer

    German electronics and engineering conglomerate Siemens AG is discovering that selling products can be much easier than selling parts of the company.

  • News: UK Microsoft licence vulture enters US

    A UK company that’s made a business out of selling pre-owned licences for Microsoft products has entered the US market for the first time.

  • News: Microsoft denies Office 2007 shutdown switch

    Microsoft has no plans to add a controversial Windows Vista antipiracy feature directly to its Office 2007 suite, but will consider offering it as an add-on

  • News: Linux users slam MS 'posturing'

    Business leaders have rejected concerns about potential lawsuits surrounding the Suse Linux operating system, despite Microsoft claiming its agreement with Novell is designed to protect corporate users from such threats

  • News: Microsoft allows Office 2007 copycats

    Microsoft is licensing the new user interface (UI) in Office 2007 for free so developers can build applications that look similar to the programs in the suite.

  • News: Novell sidesteps Microsoft's Linux liability

    Novell has distanced itself from Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer’s comments that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft patents, although the two companies said that their recently-unveiled alliance remains intact.

  • News: Microsoft, Sprint deal for mobile search

    In a win for its aim to sell advertising through its Windows Live Search engine, Microsoft has unveiled a deal with Sprint to offer Windows Live Search capabilities through Sprint's mobile phone service.

  • News: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo team up

    Fierce internet rivals Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all backing the Sitemap Protocol to simplify the way webmasters and online publishers submit content to search engines

  • News: Duet tunes up with additional features

    Businesses interested in Duet, the software application jointly developed by Microsoft and SAP, can look forward to new features and a new version of the product over the next few months

  • News: Users warned of new email hoaxes

    An internet safety body has warned users to be aware of two new email hoaxes that aim to steal personal and financial information or infect a user's computer with a virus.

  • News: Windows Vista code released

    Microsoft finally completed work on its Vista client operating system yesterday, and plans to release the code to corporate users this month

  • News: Skype targets businesses

    After winning over millions of consumers to its largely free internet telephony service, Skype is preparing to go after businesses eager to reduce their communication costs.

  • News: Linux switch costs Microsoft £230m

    Microsoft will spend more than $440m in licensing fees and sales and marketing costs over the next five years to keep up its end of the historic Linux agreement it made with Novell

  • News: Dell switches to four-core chips

    Dell will begin shipping its first servers and workstations running quad-core Intel processors in a two-socket configuration in the US next week

  • News: Sony launches world's lightest laptop

    Sony is launching what’s said to be the world’s lightest notebook as part of its bid to attract more business buyers in Japan. The Type G Vaio, which is expected to sell for around £990, weighs less than 2lbs.

  • News: Office 2007 ready for release

    Microsoft has confirmed that it has completed work on Office 2007’s system code and released it to manufacturing.

  • News: 100m websites now online

    The internet is now 100 million websites strong, with the growing number of blogs and small business sites given credit for huge growth this year by research firm Netcraft.

  • News: Vista cost savings exposed

    As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista to manufacturing this week and make it available to corporate users at the end of the month, the debate is ratcheting up over how much money companies could save - if any - by upgrading to the new software.

  • News: Microsoft announces Vista launch events

    Microsoft has committed to launched Windows Vista and Office 2007 to businesses in Canada and the US on November 23 and November 30th respectively.