John Fontana

Startup Bitkoo is releasing as a commercial product identity-management technology developed and deployed by The Walt Disney Co. that it says provides cutting-edge authentication/authorization and auditing/compliance capabilities.

It's been years in the making, but Microsoft's next server platform is finally in the stretch run and while it doesn't appear revolutionary, it's looking like the final release will deliver a grab bag of goodies to users looking to ease management, network and security issues

Microsoft inched closer to releasing its RFID platform when it shipped the first public beta of BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Microsoft went on the offensive Wednesday with a Valentine's Day attack on IBM openly accusing its rival of trying to subvert Microsoft's efforts to standardize its new document format and in turn destabilize customer choices.

It has been less than a month since Apple introduced its iPhone, but corporate e-mail users hoping to land the device as a client for real-time remote access better think again.

Microsoft is growing faster and gaining more users than IBM in terms of their e-mail and calendaring tools, but the two vendors are near equals when it comes to customer dissatisfaction, according to a new report from Gartner.

Microsoft, taking its annual dig at rival IBM/Lotus, announced Monday a trio of free tools and templates it plans to ship in February to help customers migrate from Notes/Domino.

Exchange 2007 can't run on Microsoft's most current virtualization software. Exchange management tools won't run on the just released Vista desktop operating system and the 64-bit messaging server is not compatible with Microsoft's forthcoming 64-bit server operating system called Longhorn.