Elizabeth Montalbano

Microsoft expands support for the open-source community by donating cash to the Apache Software Foundation

The man in charge of Redmond's faltering online group and botched play for Yahoo will run the network gear manufacturer, while MS carves up the Platforms and Services Group he ran. One analyst calls it a blow for Microsoft; another wonders: Did he jump or was he pushed?

Lycos has released a new Web-publishing tool based on Google's OpenSocial API that allows users to create Web sites that take advantage of social networks, the company said Tuesday

The makers of Firefox 3 had hoped to attract a record number of early adopters for the latest addition of the upstart browser, but the servers couldn't handle it. The tech support team is on it

The next version of Visual Studio Team System, code-named Rosario, will allow developers to create a visual map of an application's architecture, and then compare that to the back-end code. More from TechEd

The document management vendor plans to offer hosted services, including Adobe Buzzword, and a free Web conferencing service. How this positions Adobe against Google and Microsoft

A service pack will add file-format support for PDF 1.5, PDF/A and ODF v1.1, as well as XML Paper Specification, allowing users to save documents just as they would any of the current supported file formats in Office

Microsoft has promised SP1 for the first quarter of this year, but analysts and others suggest the world's largest software company may be offering the release just after Valentine's Day