John Fontana

Waveset Technologies Inc. expected to release an extension to its user management product that will tie together extranets.

The World Wide Web Consortium last month gave standards approval to a technology for designing Web-based forms used to collect, input and extract native XML data from enterprise systems and business applications.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will introduce a service for corporate customers that will allow users to extend and manage their MSN Messenger instant messaging capabilities across the firewall and help Microsoft play catch-up with rivals in the instant messaging market.

Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that a forthcoming release of the Windows operating system code-named Longhorn will be intended for desktops only and will not have a corresponding server release like previously announced.

It's official

Two years ago, Microsoft Corp. stuffed a number of collaboration features in Exchange Server with great fanfare. Last week, the company started to tell network executives why it now plans to pluck them out.

Advanced Reality Inc. Monday released an adapter that adds real-time collaboration features to spreadsheets stored in Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint Portal Server.

Lotus Software Group Wednesday said it was putting to rest a simmering feud over Java support by bundling with the forthcoming Domino 6 a free version of IBM Corp.'s WebSphere application server.