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After much waiting and ample fanfare, Microsoft finally is launching its Windows Server 2003 platform. Although the company declined to comment, its Web site bills the new operating system as "a highly productive infrastructure that helps make your network a strategic asset for your organization." To put it less verbosely, Yankee Group senior analy...

Nearly six years have passed since Microsoft agreed to invest US$150 million in Apple Computer and continue developing Mac versions of its Office application suite for at least five years In the intervening period, both companies have experienced many changes. Apple has transformed from a moribund entity whose doom was foretold by countless pundits...

Marius Haas, vice president of worldwide e-business mindshare at Hewlett-Packard, worked for Compaq for seven years before that company merged with HP. He also led efforts to integrate both companies' e-business groups during the nine months preceding the official merger. According to Haas, that integration has gone well For example, Haas' divisio...

The U.S. District Court judge presiding over the Microsoft antitrust settlement posed several questions Wednesday about the extent of proposed penalties to be levied against the software giant Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly told the opposing sides that she will decide on appropriate penalties for Microsoft by relating them to the company's antitrust ...

According to reports, Microsoft is expected to purchase Danish enterprise software company Navision for about US$1.2 billion Navision, one of Europe's leading developers of mid-market enterprise software, released a statement Tuesday that avoided any direct mention of the Redmond, Washington-based software giant....

Providing a welcome dose of good news amid a flurry of dire earnings forecasts, e-tail giant Amazon.com said Monday that it would post a narrower-than-expected loss for the first quarter due to surging electronic sales The Seattle, Washington-based online bellwether reported that it would post a pro forma loss of slightly less than US$50 million, o...