Software

Microsoft Corp. on Friday finished development on a new version of its Exchange messaging server a week after the company celebrated its launch alongside significant new releases of the Windows client OS and Microsoft Office.

Vendors are scrambling to offer open source application stacks as an alternative to integrated sets of proprietary applications that have long locked users into the technology of a single supplier.

Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.

The French government plans to make the region around Paris a centre of excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday.

Asustek Computer Inc. has prepared one of the first notebook PCs to use SideShow, a small display on the outside of the case that works with Windows Vista to allow users to scan e-mails and other information without booting up the laptop.

Jill Schoolenberg, general manager, Windows at Microsoft Canada, highlights some of the new capabilities of Windows Vista

The Canadian launch of Microsoft Corp.

Some detailed reviews of Windows Vista have concluded that Microsoft