Carol Sliwa

Backed by a half-dozen partners, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced a systems architecture program that aims to help companies reduce the costs, time and risks associated with integrating Windows 2000 Server into corporate computing environments.

Backed by a half-dozen partners, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced a systems architecture program that aims to help companies reduce the costs, time and risks associated with integrating Windows 2000 Server into corporate computing environments.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday proclaimed that its two-year-old .Net initiative has entered Phase 2, but progress has been mixed so far and its ultimate vision isn't on the verge of being realized anytime soon.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday proclaimed that its two-year-old .Net initiative has entered Phase 2, but progress has been mixed so far and its ultimate vision isn't on the verge of being realized anytime soon.

Novell Inc. today plans to unveil an 18-month road map for its eDirectory server software, dubbed Project Destiny, that outlines its strategy to extend secure identity management to every aspect of Web services.

Microsoft Corp. today made available educational materials and a tool kit to help developers build applications using the Visual Studio .Net development environment that the company launched in February.

The new Visual J# .Net tool that Microsoft Corp. launched Monday at its TechEd 2002 Europe conference in Barcelona, Spain, isn't expected to have a huge impact on corporate IT departments using Java, analysts said.

Reversing last year's hard-line stance, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday disclosed that an upcoming update to its Windows XP desktop operating system will include the software code necessary to run Java applications.