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Vista's European battleground

Windows Vista hasn't shipped yet, but Microsoft and the European Union are already caught up in a tussle over the antitrust impact of security technology in the operating system. Read more »

Sender ID's fading message

At the start of last year, Bill Gates told the world's elite at an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, that the problem of spam would be solved in two years. Read more »

Interview with Bill Gates

This week Microsoft have released a host of announcements revolved around Longhorn, Whidbey and the future of Web services. Bill Gates sheds some light on the future of their platforms in this interview. Read more »

How to use quality gates to guide IT projects

Many projects don't have enough quality controls in place to ensure a quality product. Here's how to use "quality gates" to monitor project progress. Read more »

Visual Studio 2010 can replay bugs

Microsoft has revealed plans for the next version of its development suite, Visual Studio 2010, to be able to record testing sessions so that developers can reproduce and closely examine software bugs. Read more »

Windows chief opens up on '7'

Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to keep silent about new products, but now in an exclusive interview, he spills the beans on Windows 7. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Windows anti-spyware to come free of charge

Ending speculation about whether it was shifting to a paid model, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will provide customers with its new anti-spyware software for free. Read more »

Sun to open-source single sign-on code

Sun Microsystems plans to release part of the blueprints of its Java Access Manager single sign-on product to the open-source community, it said Wednesday. Read more »

Symbian looks to woo handset makers

The mobile OS specialist is looking to pull handset makers away from their own systems onto its own. Read more »

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Evaluate the hidden enterprise design tasks before committing to an API

Here are the reasons why the right API choice can make complex enterprise application development run more smoothly. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

Web 2.0 meets the enterprise

Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Selling developers on .Net

He's hardly as well-known as Bill Gates but Eric Rudder will have more influence over the future of Microsoft's bet-the-company .Net software strategy than his more famous boss. Read more »

Is Red Hat going to be the next Microsoft?

How could a little company that provides Linux open source software hope to topple Microsoft? Could Red Hat become the next dominant (not necessarily domineering) operating systems provider? Read more »

Truce called in Java standards battle

A closely watched feud over Java standards compliance moved closer to resolution, but questions over the value of that standard still linger. Read more »

The Visual Studio vision

Some parts of Microsoft's .Net initiative may be floundering, but the heart of .Net--that is, the development environment--keeps beating strongly despite its many struggles. Read more »

A simpler Java?

With C# and .NET from Microsoft breathing down its neck, Java is facing more heat than it has before. Java creator James Gosling explains Sun's gameplan: A simpler Java that can be deployed faster. Read more »

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