Allison Taylor

Just one week before the launch of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Canada Co. unveiled a set of developer tools that allow programmers to build software and services for the new version of Office.

Launching what he called the next wave of software opportunities at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of the Redmond, Washington-based company on Monday offered developers the first peek at Longhorn

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A national index of Canadian technology companies working in the advanced security sector is being created by several associations banding together for that purpose.

Microsoft Corp. announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its shared source program by opening the doors for eligible customers to the nuts and bolts of the company's source code for Windows. It's a move that one industry analyst said takes Microsoft closer to embracing open-source, while at the same time allows the company to keep its customers happy.

With new technology from Lucent Technologies, Bell Canada announced on Monday plans to expand its deployment of Sympatico High Speed Internet service to customers currently outside of its Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) footprint in Quebec and Ontario, bringing broadband service to more of its customers.

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The market may be flat for the next few years in the application development and deployment software space, but there is potential for growth if relational database management systems (RDBMS) consolidate functionality, according to a recent report issued by a Toronto-based research firm.