Microsoft announced its 2008 roadmap for its academic research endeavors, including grants and other funding for several research initiatives. The announcements were made this week as part of the software giant's Microsoft Research (MSR) Faculty Summit

Microsoft is looking for better traction with Windows Live OneCare, its automatic self-updating PC care service that runs when a user's PC is on. Windows Live OneCare v2 is now available as a beta from Microsoft and is an update

Microsoft on Tuesday opened its toy box for partners gathered to attend the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, with the aim of helping them better serve their joint customers – and keeping them happy. Microsoft also announced that

Microsoft is shipping two new "reference applications packs" or RAPs for its Office Business Applications (OBA) initiative – one providing guidance for how to build effective plant analytics applications and the other for how to successfully create

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been a flash point in the often contentious debate about open standards for digital document formats over the past two or three years – and will continue to be, it seems. Monday, the state's

What would you accomplish in a 21-day stretch? For Miguel de Icaza of Novell, it was banging out an open source clone of Silverlight, Microsoft's rich Internet application development framework. de Icaza is the project leader for the Mono initiative,

Microsoft and Lindows (now called Linspire) are putting years of legal sparring behind them now that the company has bought into Microsoft's Linux patent covenants. Linspire is the third company after Novell and Xandros to enter into a patent covenant

Enterprise CIOs typically have to make a platform decision about whether they will run enterprise applications on JavaEE or .NET 2.0. It's a decision that can also limit the development options available to developers. Software vendor Mainsoft has been