Within 2 weeks of releasing its Commerce Server 2000 product to manufacturing, Microsoft secured several high-profile deployments that lend credibility to the company's e-business plans. Radio Shack, Clarus, Starbucks Coffee, and Henry Schein were...
Late yesterday, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems reached an agreement that ended a 3-year-old Java licensing lawsuit. Under terms of the agreement, Microsoft will pay Sun $20 million and be barred from using Sun's Java Compatible trademark. And...
Over the weekend, Microsoft announced a new initiative targeting the enterprise market, with the company's current products evolving over time into .NET software services. Dubbed "Software for the Agile Business," the initiative will include a...
At the "VSLive!" industry trade show for Windows developers last week, developers received beta copies of Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft's core tools for developing software services that target the .NET platform. The company...