John Fontana

Debbie Brasher cut the mainframe cord and she is not looking back. The director of technology for the Superior Court Stanislaus County System in...

Microsoft Corp. last month made another acquisition to strengthen its antivirus and anti-spam strategy and signal corporate customers that it plans to increase protection...

Nearly a decade ago, e-mail was the killer app and vendors IBM/Lotus and Microsoft Corp. were locked in a battle to prove which was best at delivering messaging to a corporate world hungry for online communication. The winner? Both. Each scored victories that have set them up today as the kingpins of computer-based communication and collaboration.

The offering begins to fill in gaps for corporate users, who lacked an easy way to incorporate back-end data into collaboration environments.

The group working on a standard designed to help slow the onslaught of spam imploded last week amid intellectual property issues and in-fighting, but the co-author of the specification says he will introduce a new one shortly that he hopes will sidestep such issues.

Microsoft Corp. next month will release Virtual Server 2005, its first foray into server virtualization and a key element of the broad management platform the company is creating for Windows.

Microsoft Corp. Thursday released a fix for the Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation package it provided to corporate users of its free patch deployment server to correct a flaw that would not allow IT to stealthy install the service pack without end-user intervention.

Vintela Inc., which writes software to integrate Windows and competing platforms, has developed an extension to Microsoft Corp.