Matt Berger

Adding to the oft-referenced list of things IT managers cannot avoid, including death, taxes and system crashes, software makers and industry watchdogs have identified yet another duty not to be overlooked

A federal appeals court delivered a ruling Thursday in the landmark antitrust case between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. government, sending the case back to a lower court to be reviewed by a new judge, while upholding a lower court verdict that Microsoft acted illegally to maintain its monopoly in the market for desktop operating systems

Despite Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive criticism of the open source movement

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer said last Thursday that Microsoft will rely on third-party security companies to build and support features in Hailstorm, the company's set of services that will be included in Windows XP and become the key building blocks for its .Net initiative.

U.S. State lawmakers are being pressed by an industry trade group created by Microsoft Corp.'s biggest foes to file a second antitrust suit against the Redmond, Wash. software maker.

Microsoft Corp. unveiled its newest server software in its line of .Net enterprise products Monday during a keynote presentation at its annual TechEd developers conference in Atlanta, Ga., and offered a peek at an early version of the successor to its popular SQL Server, code-named "Yukon."

Hewlett-Packard Co. is supplying more arms to the open source development community, announcing Monday that it has built an internal developers network based on an open source software platform from CollabNet Inc., a software and consulting company launched by Apache software co-creator Brian Behlendorf.

Microsoft Corp. has finally made it into television, and its software could be running on a cable network near you.