Managed Services & Outsourcing

Eric Rudder, senior vice president of servers and tools at Microsoft Corp., declined to nail down a time frame for Longhorn, the next major Windows release this week. But he was more forthcoming about some of the new technologies the company demonstrated at its Professional Developers Conference here.

IBM Corp. on Monday announced three new Express offerings for the mid-market designed to help midsized businesses manage and integrate their data.

Eric Rudder, senior vice-president of servers and tools at Microsoft Corp., declined to nail down a time frame for Longhorn, the next major Windows release.

Are we more productive because of collaboration technologies is? I doubt it. Just consider the problems caused by instant messaging, a tool that is often a distraction and a cause of social friction.

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s announcement last week that it will post a larger-than-expected loss in its fiscal first quarter is the latest evidence that Sun is trying to exorcise demons.

The CRTC's decision in August to ask incumbent carriers to issue tariff rates for dark fibre should be a boon to organizations in less-populous regions where there is little or no competition to the incumbent telcos, according to several industry observers.

The starting gun fired for Sprint Canada Inc. this month as the company launched its IP-Enabled Solutions.

The total leadership column is about the search for a full understanding of leadership, in all its dimensions. But I think we've largely overlooked something important. For years, we have written about leadership as executives, in the context of organizations, industries and different sectors.