Microsoft news from Network World

Alliance to promote Windows-managed Macs in enterprise

John Fontana — 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

A group of five vendors has formed an alliance to help push Macintosh desktops into managed Windows environments on corporate networks.

Autonomy, Endeca rate among top enterprise search vendors

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

The best enterprise search products on the market come from Autonomy, Endeca, the Microsoft subsidiary Fast and Vivisimo, but Google’s Search Appliance continues to dominate the market in terms of brand awareness and sheer number of customers, Forrester Research says in a new report.

Cisco, IBM, Intel, Juniper and Microsoft fight cyber terror together

Tim Greene — 2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

Five major network hardware, software and services vendors are banding together to improve IT security by promoting faster responses to threats.

Microsoft ships Hyper-V

John Fontana — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

Microsoft Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five year in the making and is a major play in the company's march toward services-based computing.

VMware, Microsoft battle over virtualization management capabilities

Denise Dubie — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

VMware dominates the virtualization market, but industry watchers expect hypervisor technology to become secondary to management and other capabilities when customers commit to large virtual server implementations. Can Microsoft unseat the leader by differentiating its hypervisor with advanced management capabilities?

Symbian deal will open up mobile platform market

Brad Reed,John Cox — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

When Nokia announced this week that it had agreed to purchase Symbian and open up some of its code for public use, many analysts said it was a direct shot across Android’s bow.

Microsoft on Symbian's open source move: Good luck with that

John Cox — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

A Microsoft product manager predicts Symbian is embracing the problems, as well as the opportunities, of open sourcing its mobile-phone code.

VMware trumps Hyper-V on functionality, but not on price

Jon Brodkin — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

Microsoft is shipping Hyper-V, which offers virtualization on the cheap, but VMware might still be the best option.

Mobile Linux groups fuse to advance unified OS

John Cox — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

One industry group focused on writing standards for mobile Linux is closing its doors and blending its efforts with another industry group focused on writing mobile Linux code.

Will the death of XP really hurt you?

James E. Gaskin — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

Microsoft warned us well over a year ago that XP will Die Die Die, at least on new computers, by the end of June, 2008. Petitions and prayers notwithstanding, XP has a firm date with Boot Hill. RIP, XP.

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2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

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