Elizabeth Montalbano

Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. have teamed up to support a protocol for communicating across network address translators (NATs) that they believe will hasten the adoption of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) for enterprises.

IBM Corp. this month, along with a host of other companies, proposed the creation of a set of common practices and methods for developing software within the open-source Eclipse Foundation.

Microsoft Corp. Monday will unveil a host of new business intelligence (BI) features that will be available in the next version of Microsoft Office, code-named Office 12, in an effort to push the software as more than just a productivity suite.

The impending retirement of Microsoft Corp.

A Microsoft Corp. employee has warned against downloading an unauthorized version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that has surfaced on a popular Web site that provides software patches.

Microsoft Corp. and RealNetworks Inc. announced that they have settled their antitrust case and forged a partnership to promote digital music and games in three agreements worth US$761 million, the companies said.

Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday unveiled a partnership to distribute the Google Desktop with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), but stopped short of revealing any future plans to bring Sun applications such as the StarOffice productivity suite to the Web through Google services.

Microsoft Corp. is adding native support for PDF (portable document format) in the next version of its office productivity suite, code-named Office 12, which is expected to be available next year.