Survey says: Microsoft ecosystem is biggest
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The software giant commissioned IDC to survey the economic impact of IT and Microsoft in 82 countries.
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By Bloomberg News  Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, has completed the test version of its Windows Vista operating system as it works to deliver the program to consumers by January.
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Google is ranked top Web brand and Microsoft is top "parent company," but AOL is tops when it comes to visitor time spent on the site, according to latest Nielsen/NetRatings figures.
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Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco&#39;s community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.The surveys help inform Alfresco&#39;s technology strategy, according to Ian Howells, Alfresco&#39;s chief marketing officer. &quot;It&#39;s important for us to know which platforms to test against first,&quot; he said, adding, &quot;It&#39;s in users&#39; interest to give us good data.&quot;Among Linux operating systems, usage of Ubuntu and Red Hat stood at 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, according to the survey. Suse, OpenSuse, and Suse Enterprise collectively garnered 13 percent; Debian, 15 percent; and &quot;other&quot; distributions usage of 14 percent.Users also reported using a variety of proprietary enterprise software.Among Windows users, Vista adoption was just 2 percent, compared to 63 percent for Windows XP and 28 percent for Windows Server 2003.Microsoft&#39;s Office suite remained strong, however, with 66 percent usage. Twenty-four percent of the respondents reported they used OpenOffice. However, German and French users were twice as likely to use the latter compared to those in the U.S. or U.K., Alfresco said.Tomcat held a dominant position in the application server category, logging 72 percent. JBoss&#39; entry stood at 18 percent. Entries from Sun, BEA, and IBM rounded out the field.In the virtualization category, VMware perhaps predictably ranked highest, at 61 percent. Microsoft&#39;s Virtual Server took 16 percent, followed by Xen, Parallels, Virtual Iron and &quot;other&quot; offerings, according to the study.MySQL took home the database prize, with a 60 percent tally, followed by Oracle with 14 percent and Microsoft SQL Server with 13 percent.&quot;It kind of validates that people want to have a mixed stack,&quot; Howells said of the overall results.Alfresco collected data between July and December of last year, with survey participants coming from 260 countries, according to the company. Fifty percent were from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, while 24 percent were in the U.S., and 26 percent from other nations, Alfresco said.
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Adoption of Outlook, Exchange Server, and Sharepoint Server took a big jump in 2007, Microsoft says.
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Why did it take the world's biggest and most successful software company so long to revamp its flagship product -- and what do Microsoft's delays tell us about our growing dependence on balky software products?
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It was indeed an astounding quarter for Microsoft, with operating income having grown last quarter at an annual rate of 32%. A big part of that growth is attributable to Windows Vista. But does the fact that customers are adopting it truly signal that customers are embracing it? Yesterday, the company's chief financial executives offered some very revealing data.
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Microsoft Corp., worldâs largest software maker, has entered the blog market with its new MSN Spaces beta service that it started offering to end-users starting Thursday.
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Bill Gates throws a huge party for Windows Vista. Was it the last of its kind?
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Everyone knows that Microsoft is probably the single most powerful software company in the world. How strange it is therefore, to discover that the mighty giant is being shamed by a group of geek-like programmers
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(Sterling Commerce)  In September 2007, Computerworld invited IT and business leaders to participate in a survey on integrationand interoperability at their organizations. The survey was fielded through an invitation onComputerworld.com. The goal of the survey was to gain a better understanding of the issues surroundingintegration and interoperability. While commissioned by Sterling Commerce, all data for this survey wasgathered and tabulated independently by Computerworld Research. The following report represents top-lineresults of that survey.
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As for why the service pack is so huge in the first place, Microsoft says several technical decisions come into play.
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Two new studies show Microsoft (Quote, Chart) is now leading both the embedded operating system category as well as in PDAs. According to statistics by research firm Gartner (Quote, Chart), Microsoft&#39;s Windows
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Microsoft Corp., the world's largest  software maker, and France's Dassault Systemes have forged a  global, 5-year strategic alliance to deliver Dassault's 3D  software to firms using the Microsoft software platform.
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And this comes straight from the horseâs mouth! Software giant Microsoft has finally acknowledged Linux as its strongest competitor, much to the delight of Australiaâs open source industry association (OSIA).
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Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and SAP have the most loyal customers in IT, according to a report released today. The fact that they are some of the biggest, most successful IT vendors in
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Microsoft announced their entry into the security software market with the acquisition of Giant Software. Giant Software is a 12 people strong company based in New York, which specializes in software that