Microsoft's SAM carrot
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ello âello âello, save some money In an interesting twist in the battle against software piracy, Microsoft UK is promoting the benefits of Software Asset Management (SAM) under a scheme which rewards honesty - richly. It says the voluntary self-start SAM programme it introduced last November can save businesses a significant sum on licensing fees - in addition to giving them peace of mind.â¦
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Microsoft&#39;s CEO argues that Windows is cheaper and more secure than its open-source rival. Do the facts support him? By John Foley.
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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This article is the first in a new, regular series of articles and interviews with top Microsoft program managers. Our goal is to give you a close-up, helpful and informative look at things
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Resistance to Vista was expected among the large companies that have leverage with large PC vendors, but even in the consumer and SMB ranks, the clamor for XP is significant. The beneficiaries? Possibly, "white-box" system builders and direct-sales channels.
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No one would have believed me if I had said five years ago that Microsoft would have a page on its Web site called âOpen Source at Microsoftâ with the following remarkably sane and reasonable statement on the subject: Microsoft is focused on helping customers and partners succeed in a heterogeneous technology world. This starts with participating and contributing to a broad range of choices for developing and deploying software, including open source approaches and applications. From thousands of lines of code and scripts on MSDN and TechNet, to open source applications like IronPython, ASP.NET AJAX, SharePoint Learning Kit, and WiX on CodePlex and SourceForge, Microsoft is continually growing the number of products released with open source access.  That's right: Microsoft has released not one but several pieces of code as open source.  Moreover, it's submitting some of its home-grown licences to the Open Source Initiative  for approval.  So what is going on here?
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2004  - Martin Taylor recently marked his one-year anniversary as Microsoft Corp.&#39;s chief Linux strategist.
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There is a fascinating article on Groklaw called Searching for Openness in Microsoft's OOXML and Finding Contradictions. One of the most relevant comments in the article is "So, they plan to be the only one in the Linux world that can actually interoperate with Microsoft. How do you think they will achieve that? By sharing? On the contrary, they already market themselves as uniquely interoperable, which means they get to interoperate and you don't, unless you are their paying customer."  There is also the Novell comment, "Only Novell has Microsoftâs endorsement as its partner to drive Linux-Windows interoperability."
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Stick to the knitting Microsoft must work with, not against, open source otherwise it risks sacrificing developer support and credibility among customers - even Windows loyalists.â¦
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Are you convinced that Windows environments are less expensive to own and operate than Linux computers? Martin Taylor, the manager behind Microsoftâs anti-Linux strategy, believes the companyâs Get The
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The software giant addresses three vulnerabilities within the Windows operating system.
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Will a nonprofit-driven browser tackle the behemoth from Redmond?
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When it comes to exhorting its hordes of hardware vendors to get their drivers right with new versions of its Windows operating system, Microsoft looks less like an iron-fisted ruler and more like a beleaguered parent.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Seeking to be more competitive with Microsoft Corp...
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Operating system might help make up for a rough quarter and Microsoft nipping at the company's heels.
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An IT professional discovers a way of getting a full version of Vista for the cost of a simple upgrade.
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Microsoft's operating system from 1.0 to Vista.