Microsoft eyes the datacenter

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Microsoft hopes to play alongside Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and others in developing "virtual datacenter" software that will make it easier to manage applications running across groups of servers, a company executive said Wednesday.

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Microsoft preps new Office 11 beta

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Microsoft is expected to release next month a second test version of a crucial upgrade to its Office desktop application software.

The initial test release of Office 11--the code name for the product--was shipped to about 12,000 testers in October. In a familiar pattern, the software titan is expected to make this second testing version more widely available. Microsoft has taken a similar approach with past upgrades to Office and its Windows operating system.

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Lawsuit challenges software licensing

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A California woman is suing Microsoft, Symantec and some software retailers, claiming the companies "concocted a scheme" to mislead consumers by requiring them to consent to software licensing agreements they haven't read.

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MicrosoftWatch: Microsoft Revs Its ASP.Net Engines

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At this week's VSLive! developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft will be doing more than showing off its next-generation tools suite.

The company also will be beating the drum for its ASP .Net scripting language - Redmond's alternative to the open-source PHP.

To demonstrate momentum for ASP .Net, Microsoft is expected to highlight several projects the company has built using ASP. Net. And, plucking a page from the open-source book, Microsoft will likely tout the fact that it is making the full source code available to developers interested in these ASP .Net wares.

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Microsoft moves ahead on Xdocs

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The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.

Last year, Microsoft unveiled XDocs as a planned addition to Office 11, the forthcoming update to the company's market-dominating, cash-cow productivity suite. Office 11 will rely heavily on Extensible Markup Language (XML), the lingua franca of Web services, to record and display data more flexibly.

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Microsoft toughens up Windows Server

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The software giant on Thursday detailed a series of features it has added to Windows Server 2003 to improve the reliability of the server operating system and cut down on the amount of unplanned downtime for servers. Windows Server 2003, which is due in April, will compete with variants of the Unix operating system from companies like Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and IBM.

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MicrosoftWatch: Sun Launches 'Plan B'

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Sun Microsystems Vice President Rich Green already is looking beyond the recent Court of Appeals decision to grant Microsoft a delay in providing a standards-compliant version of Java as part of its Windows operating system.

Green, the Sun executive who heads up the developer tools and Java software units for Sun, keynoted the "2003 Wall Street on Java Technology" conference here on Wednesday. Green talked up Sun's plan to take its Java message directly to the people, as it waits for its chance to appeal the stay.

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eWeek: Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

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Microsoft Corp. may in the future be forced to lower its software prices as a result of the growth of open source, the company cautioned in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In its latest 10-Q quarterly filing, Microsoft said that the popularization of the open-source movement continues to pose a significant challenge to its business model.

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Microsoft wins stay of Java order

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Microsoft a stay of a Jan. 21 decision from U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore, who gave the company 120 days to begin including Sun's latest Java runtime environment in every copy of Windows and Internet Explorer.

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Microsoft eyeing Vivendi unit?

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The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, said the two companies are negotiating a buyout of some Vivendi game divisions. Investment bank Investec, citing unnamed Vivendi executives, painted a similar picture in a report released late last week, saying Microsoft could pay as much as $2 billion for all of Vivendi's game-related businesses.

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Sun fights Microsoft's Java appeal

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Sun is trying to convince the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals not to step into the antitrust case and instead leave an injunction from a Baltimore federal judge intact. Microsoft has appealed that order from U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, who last week gave the company 120 days to begin including Sun's Java runtime environment in every copy of its Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser.

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Microsoft extends NT's life

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The software giant said it is extending support for Windows NT 4 Server for an additional 12 months. The change means that network administrators will be able to get security patches and "hot fixes" until Dec. 31, 2004. Microsoft had planned to pull the plug on these and other updates later this year.

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