In a move that builds support for its .Net Framework, Microsoft last week launched Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System.
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Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference 2003 event in Los Angeles in two weeks will shed light on "Indigo," which is the company's upcoming Web services applications framework. The company also will discuss the planned "Yukon" release of SQL Server and the upcoming "Whidbey" releases of ASP.Net and Visual Studio.
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A fight over an obscure content-protection patent could wind up relieving one of the software giant's biggest legal headaches, according to digital rights management company Macrovision.
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The software giant starts signing up employees for a program that lets workers trade in their "underwater" stock options for cash.
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Responding to a warning from an antivirus company, the software giant fixes a flaw that would have left its e-mail service vulnerable to collapse at the hands of online vandals.
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A small New York company files a lawsuit against Microsoft, charging that the software giant's new music download service in Europe infringes on a patent nearly 20 years old.
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The tools promise to enable developers who work with Visual Studio .Net to create custom applications that tap into the new version of Office's XML-based capabilities.
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For the rest of its fiscal 2004, the Windows client team will be working to improve the patch management technology and processes and to enhance productivity via new and more Tablet PCs (running a 2004 version of the XP for Tablet) and wireless networking. Poole's team also will be working on ways to bring the client and server more closely together "for better productivity and at better cost," he said.
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The company says it has sold its customer relationship management applications to 1,000 businesses--a "milestone" for the 1.0 version it introduced in January.
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The software titan begins testing a reporting tool for its SQL Server database, which will be distributed to thousands of customers.
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The software giant will focus on adding new security technologies to its products, educating its customers and improving its process of releasing patches, CEO Steve Ballmer says.
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The software maker takes another stab at the interactive TV market with an Internet-based technology that lets cable and telecommunications companies deliver video.
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Microsoft plans to release a new retail and OEM version of Internet Explorer by early 2004 in order to comply with terms from the Eolas patent-infringement suit. Meanwhile, Sun and Microsoft have agreed to an extension, via which Microsoft will continue to support its Microsoft Java Virtual Machine through September of next year.
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Exclusive use of Windows could subject firms to greater damage during a cyberattack, says an upcoming Gartner report. The note mirrors a paper by prominent security researchers.
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The software giant plans to announce on Thursday a detailed plan of action to combat recent security threats, but one executive said things won't change overnight.
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Canada's Sierra Wireless will use the operating system in its first line of phones, which will target business people.
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The holder of a browser plug-in patent asks a court for a permanent injunction against Microsoft's distribution of Internet Explorer, in the continuation of a patent-infringement case.
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Despite growing competition from Linux, Microsoft continues to dominate the market for server operating systems software, according to research from IDC.
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The software maker plans to untangle its management software lineup--and introduce its first such tools for Web services--in an effort to win corporate customers.
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The software giant wins a patent for an instant messaging feature that notifies users when the person they are communicating with is typing a message.
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