Eric Lai

The dismissal of Stuart Scott was unusually public and veiled in mystery. Human resource consultants discuss the heightened ethical climate and the higher standard of behavior for senior technology professionals

One week after saying it would belatedly join the OpenOffice.org open-source community, Big Blue on Tuesday released its own version of the group's free desktop application package

The company's manager of platform strategy announces a plan to submit its shared source licences to a group that governs non-proprietary work. Observers welcome an unexpected move

The OS that is so far code-named "7" will continue to come out in two different versions, according to a company leak. Find out what the decision would mean for business users

An esoteric but key technical standards committee refuses to endorse Microsoft's proposed open standard based on Office. Plus: Canadians speak out on document formats

Four months after its official, belated release, figuring out how Windows Vista is doing in the market involves as much decoding as a Dan Brown mystery. Microsoft Corp. may trumpet impressive stats, but it politely ducks and weaves when the professionally curious seek many of the details behind those numbers. Here's our attempt to unravel this puzzle shrink-wrapped in a mystery.

The feeling of Microsoft Corp. customers is starting to edge ever so slightly towards the disappointment end of the spectrum, according to results of an annual survey by the University of Michigan released on Tuesday

Despite a concerted online effort by devoted Visual FoxPro developers, Microsoft Corp. said this month that it won