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Behind Microsoft's 'experience' strategy
News While Microsoft is emphasising the Web services orientation of Windows XP and Office XP, neither product is expected to include much of the underlying .Net technologies that Microsoft is developing to allow for software to be delivered as a Web...
[February 6, 2001, 8:38]
FrontPage gets XML, loses 'messy' HTML
News Microsoft is hoping Windows SharePoint Services will kick off an orgy of Web development inside the organisation, and this is one of the ways you take advantage of that," Helm said. Instead, FrontPage is being crafted to support other Microsoft...
[June 10, 2003, 13:43]
Sonic builds a model ESB
News In August Sonic and Web services management company Infravio donated code to form the basis of an open source ESB or "Web Services broker" project backed by the Apache Software Foundation, called Apache Synapse.
[December 9, 2005, 9:25]
Microsoft backs down on MSN browser block
News A move to favouring Internet Explorer over other browsers would give Microsoft a considerable advantage as it prepares to jump into the world of Web services. Through its .Net software-as-a-service strategy, Microsoft hopes to sell software by...
[October 26, 2001, 8:44]
Intuit puts IE on Quicken menu
News Now Quicken users will be able to access online banking, financial news, quotes and other connected services in a Web-enabled environment, without sacrificing the speed, convenience and productivity of their familiar desktop software.
[July 11, 1997, 13:58]
Microsoft picks up search-technology firm
News MSN also took out some advertiser links that were served by Yahoo, although it kept its paid-search relationship with the Web portal's Overture Services subsidiary. Our vision is to take search beyond today's basic Internet search services to...
[July 16, 2004, 9:10]
Liberty Alliance and Passport still poles apart
News The system will also play a key role in Microsoft's forthcoming .Net My Services plan, a Web services initiative that is still in flux. But the company intends to eventually harmonize its services with the Alliance, said John Paul, executive vice...
[February 20, 2002, 9:06]
Microsoft: Striking out in security?
News For the most part, the bug only affects Web-site hosting services, and only after an attacker gets Web authoring access on the servers. That could be bad for Web-hosting services, said Richarte. NTBugTraq's Cooper, who said such services could be...
[April 18, 2000, 8:39]
MS .Net: Integration to the max
News Manitz said Microsoft will set up Windows 2000 and Active Directory to integrate these services and building blocks with a digital-rights system that gives developers and users the permissions to collaborate on the next iteration of Web-enabled apps.
[June 23, 2000, 8:30]
Spoiling Google's honeymoon
News It's just now that we have the maturity of XML and the Web Services protocols that we can start to do [this]. So our services have started out as very inexpensive but not feature-rich. With Google, there are rumours about them being interested in...
[September 14, 2005, 16:15]
Microsoft revs up alerts service
News While many of the .Net My Services features are aimed at consumers, .Net Alerts is expected to be the first of many Web services aimed at businesses, sources said. The new service is an element in Microsoft's forthcoming package of Web-based...
[October 5, 2001, 14:11]
Tesco takes on software giants
News Tesco will buy the products through a Sussex-based distributor called Formjet, which will provide its customer support services. The announcement is not Tesco's first foray into technology: the supermarket chain already provides telecoms services...
[October 2, 2006, 13:25]
Sun, AOL collaborate on instant messaging
News Microsoft said last month that the new version of its operating system, Windows XP, will significantly boost the abilities of its instant-messaging software to provide text, chat, video, audio and telephony services.
[July 16, 2001, 13:58]
.Net Server's rename hints at delay
News In April 2001, Microsoft pushed back delivery of the product, which is an essential component of the company's .Net Web services strategy, to early 2002. One of the key attributes of .Net Server 2003 will be broad support for Extensible Markup...
[August 30, 2002, 15:46]
IBM throws its weight behind PHP
News The latest enhancements to the language are designed to help Web developers better handle XML-formatted data and Web services protocols. Zend sells tools built on the open source edition of PHP and offers related services.
[February 25, 2005, 10:10]
Oracle ships grid software
News The Enterprise Edition includes enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence, identity management, rapid application development, wireless capabilities and Web services. The software supports a wider range of standards...
[December 10, 2003, 14:25]
Microsoft touts accounting format
News The move is part of Microsoft's attempt to reposition Office as a Web services tool -- that is, to fit it into a newer way to design and build software so that it's easier to exchange data between disparate systems.
[August 6, 2002, 13:52]
Sun's Rave released next week
News One key task the software is good for is building simple programs that tap into information in databases or that is available with Web services, he added. As expected, Java Studio Creator will cost $99 (£54), said Joe Keller, vice president of...
[June 25, 2004, 9:40]
Web logs on the line
News In addition to providing a new means of keeping bloggers' fans up to date, the audioblog is inspiring software developers and start-ups to raise a whole new crop of tools and services. It does show how we are starting to see more services targeted...
[February 25, 2003, 7:51]
Commerce One patent sale has Google worried
News The upcoming auction of dozens of key Web services patents in a California bankruptcy case has some big Silicon Valley companies on edge. The protocols, also known as Web services, are in wide use today.
[November 25, 2004, 8:05]
