If you can't beat them, join them? That may well be Microsoft's mantra, as it joins the open source community today with the blessing of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). After weighing the software giant's license terms against 10 criteria defined by

Consumers may not be able to go out and buy Windows Home Server (WHS) pre-installed on computers quite yet, but for do-it-yourselfers and small PC builders, the dam has already broken. The software-only package for small system builders can be ordered from

Microsoft has long said that what is good for its partners is good for the software giant. To prove the point, Microsoft launched the Startup Accelerator Program to give startups special access to Microsoft internal resources. "We're a platform company,

Microsoft has revealed more of its software-plus-services plan to better compete with online competitors, announcing new hosted services targeted at enterprise customers and small businesses. The company's enterprise product roster is poised to get

Microsoft quietly announced in a pair of blog posts this week that it has passed the OpenAJAX InteropFest 1.0 interoperability tests, meaning that its AJAX tools work in an OpenAJAX environment. The Redmond, Wash. software company just joined the year

Microsoft announced Monday it has begun the long-expected beta test of the first service pack for Windows Vista. In addition, it has also begun shipping the first release candidate, or RC, of Windows Server 2008, which includes an early version of its

Microsoft Wednesday launched Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, a key component of the company's business intelligence play around its Office 2007 suite of products. The delivery was scheduled by the end of summer and they just made it – the product

In a stunning loss to Microsoft, the European Union's second highest court Monday turned down most of the software company's appeal of its 2004 antitrust ruling by the European Commission (EC). In an announcement from Luxembourg, the European Court of