The MS Office 2003 Beta 2 kit is now available on Microsoft's website:
Companies installing Microsoft's new customer relationship management software say they are grappling with some flaws in the company's much-hyped product.
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Microsoft on Monday plans to rebrand its flagship productivity suite "Office System," as the company attempts to reposition its ware as a base around which businesses build custom product.
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Microsoft's top sales and marketing executive Orlando Ayala will leave that position to help lead the company's push to sell more software to small and medium-sized businesses, Microsoft said Thursday.
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Microsoft is set to make a showing in the enterprise instant messaging (IM) and collaboration market Thursday with the release of a beta version of its real-time communications server software technology, code-named Greenwich.
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When Windows Server 2003 ships in April, it will use .Net Framework 1.1 to get rid of one of the biggest headaches for users and administrators alike, says Microsoft
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New business-oriented server software is aimed at bridging the divide between corporate and consumer instant messaging, but some significant stumbling blocks remain.
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Microsoft plans to reappoint its head of worldwide sales in a reorganization of its sales group, a company representative confirmed Wednesday.
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Microsoft next week will release the first widely available beta of InfoPath, a new application for organizing and sharing data that will be included in Office 11, but analysts say the learning curve will be steep.
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Microsoft plans to officially launch Office 2003 Beta 2 on Monday, a release that will include a public preview available to several hundred thousand beta testers and businesses, said sources.
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The leaked version of the upcoming desktop operating system, code-named Longhorn, hints of major changes under the Windows hood, as Microsoft radically improves file management and searching features in Windows and in Yukon, the code-name for the next version of SQL Server, due out later this year.
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MicrosoftWatch has published an article on Windows Longhorn
Microsoft said late Monday said it has signed up more than 350,000 subscribers worldwide for its Xbox Live online video gaming service, as it prepares to bring the platform to Europe.
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Microsoft announced a new name and new integration plans on Monday for its collaboration software.
SharePoint Team Services, server software that gives workers a common environment in which to share information and documents, will now be known as Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft said.
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SharePoint Team Services, server software that gives workers a common environment in which to share information and documents, will now be known as Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft said.
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Microsoft is pushing a new set of tools that will make it easier for developers to build peer-to-peer (P2P) applications for the Windows XP environment. But analysts have claimed that P2P adoption in the corporate space is still at least three years away.
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Microsoft on Friday signed a pact with the Chinese government to reveal the Windows source code, making China among the first to benefit from its program to allay the security fears of governments.
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Microsoft will cut software prices in Taiwan by a quarter to settle an investigation into unfair trade practices, the island's competition watchdog said Thursday.
It will also sell the components of its Office XP suite of software separately and share its closely guarded source code for the Windows operating system with the government, the cabinet's Fair Trade Commission said.
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It will also sell the components of its Office XP suite of software separately and share its closely guarded source code for the Windows operating system with the government, the cabinet's Fair Trade Commission said.
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Microsoft has filed a counterclaim in the latest round of its courtroom battle with Sun Microsystems, accusing Sun of breaking contracts involving Java.
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David Gurle, Microsoft Corp.'s product unit manager for the company's forthcoming Greenwich real-time communications platform, said Tuesday that instant messaging needs to move beyond, well, instant messaging and become a more ubiquitous enterprise application.
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Now that MS CRM is out the door, could a global,.Net-based MS HRM system be next?
Microsoft plans to demonstrate at its upcoming Great Plains Convergence user conference in March its "Business Portal HRM Self Service Suite."
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Microsoft plans to demonstrate at its upcoming Great Plains Convergence user conference in March its "Business Portal HRM Self Service Suite."
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