Microsoft today introduced the next release of its Office Live Meeting 2007 Web conferencing software, a product the company hopes will compete with market leader WebEx. Unveiled at the company's TechEd conference in Orlando, Fla.

Microsoft's annual TechEd Conference is usually a place for the company to outline its latest vision of the IT world of the future. But this year – the 15th TechEd -- perhaps sensing that IT staffers and developers may be bored with vision statements,

For the first time since 1983, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs were together on the same stage at the same time. Some people expected fireworks at this historic meeting of the arch rivals, which took place Wednesday night

Microsoft chairman and soon-to-retire chief visionary Bill Gates has been touting alternative forms of computer-human interaction for years, such as tablet computing and voice recognition. On Wednesday, the company said it will deliver on that promise

It would seem obvious that a show like the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) would be the place to lay out a roadmap for the future, but in this case, Microsoft's map doesn't stretch very far. This year's WinHEC show comes smack between

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates may have one foot out the door, but he hasn't let go of his crystal ball quite yet. And he still has the name recognition to draw more than 100 of the world's most powerful executives to the company's annual CEO Summit. In

While Microsoft chairman Bill Gates chatted with the audience here at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), at least one attendee was wrestling with a balky Wi-Fi connection and a Windows XP crash causing a locked-up laptop.

Less than a month after pushing back the delivery date for its Windows Server virtualization technology, Microsoft (Quote) today said that key features of the software will not be delivered in the second half of the year. Viridian, a virtualization