John Fontana

The software giant says a need for more testing could keep the product from customer's hands until sometime within the first three months of next year. Also announced: Vista SP1 to be offered at the same time

IBM shook up its Web conferencing strategy adding a hosted option by acquiring WebDialogs and expanding its on-premise presence and conferencing platform Sametime.

Microsoft takes on Cisco with the introduction of a new server for network performance monitoring. Why the Redmond firm says this product is better than Cisco's Call Manager 5.0

VMware got off to a high-flying public debut as its IPO share price skyrocketed more than 75 per cent in morning trading on Aug. 14, a reflection of the company

Microsoft has released the second beta of the first service pack for Exchange Server 2007, plugging two holes in the process that prevented users from integrating with Vista and Windows 2008.

Xandros moves on after its controversial partnership with Microsoft to acquire Scalix, an open source e-mail, calendar and groupware platform. The CEO explains his strategy

A unique demonstration showed user-centric identity software from major vendors, start-ups, one-woman projects and open source hackers all working in concert to replace passwords with validated identity-card access to Web-based resources.

Microsoft on Monday used the opening of its annual TechEd conference in Orlando, Fla., to bundle up a cornucopia of forthcoming products aimed at developers and IT managers that it hopes will foster a Windows-based automated corporate computing platform for years to come