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Microsoft feuds with rivals over Vista security
News Microsoft and its security rivals are feuding over a key piece of Windows Vista real estate. This could give rivals the opportunity to change tack and focus on developing products that plug into Microsoft's security dashboard, rather than...
[September 20, 2006, 9:00]
Microsoft targets Java rivals
News Microsoft hopes to turn up the heat on its Java rivals with plans for new software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. While Microsoft executives have offered scant information on Indigo, people familiar with...
[August 8, 2003, 11:15]
Microsoft wants to give rivals' software away
News The crux of the dispute -- Microsoft's dominance in the media-player market and its attempts to scupper rivals including RealNetworks -- has apparently led the software giant to offer an olive branch to competitors.
[February 17, 2004, 13:45]
Microsoft wants Office 14 to get on with rivals
News Microsoft isn't just trying to work with its rivals, though. Microsoft is looking at ways for Office to work better with rival efforts such as OpenOffice and Google Docs. At the same time, Microsoft workers have said that businesses will be able to...
[March 6, 2009, 8:17]
AmEx joins Microsoft Passport rivals
News The corporate maneuverings are an important part of rivals' attempts to secure their power by weaving their own authentication technologies into the fabric of the future Internet. American Express joined the Liberty Alliance Project on Wednesday...
[December 6, 2001, 9:26]
Can Magneto repel Microsoft's mobile rivals?
News The OS, code-named Magneto, is the latest in a string of software releases that highlight Microsoft's attempts to take on rivals including PalmSource and Nokia. Microsoft has licensed its ActiveSync technology to OS rivals palmOne and Symbian.
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
Rivals hit Microsoft with new EC complaint
Talkback While I do not agree with many of Microsoft practices, it must be accepted that it is a commercial organisation that has developed the world's most successful operating system and a host of programmes that run on it.
[February 23, 2006, 10:34]
CRM rivals dismiss Microsoft's hosted efforts
Talkback Microsoft has been in the ASP/portal business with MSN for a long time -- when the time is right - Microsoft could introduce MicrosoftCRM.com and the game is OVER! The infrastructure for MOST businesses, especially for the small to mid-size is...
[November 28, 2004, 17:47]
Rivals hit Microsoft with new EC complaint
Talkback This was never about "secret source". It's about undocumented protocols and interfaces that constantly give MS a "home advantage" in the market for Windows applications.
[February 23, 2006, 12:06]
CRM rivals dismiss Microsoft's hosted efforts
News Leading CRM providers claim that for Microsoft to be successful in the growing area of hosted sales and customer support applications would require the software giant to turn its business model upside down.
[November 26, 2004, 8:30]
Rivals hit Microsoft with new EC complaint
Talkback Whatever. Office 12's file formats are fuly documented and XML-based. Vista's 'Avalon' presentation framework is also XML-based and fully documented. That's going to make it really hard for IBM Global Services to sell you a multi-million-dollar...
[February 23, 2006, 17:49]
Rivals hit Microsoft with new EC complaint
Talkback regarding - "Office 12's file formats are fuly documented". Well, I guess if you call "This data is encrypted & we will use the DRM laws to prevent anyone else from accessing it" fully documented, you are correct.
[February 26, 2006, 16:10]
Rivals hit Microsoft with new EC complaint
Talkback Chris Rankin, Good response. I fail to understand why many still interpret the decree to be about "opening" source code. I t has, and is the same in the US decree, always been about fair rights to interface with MS products.not about their source...
[February 23, 2006, 13:30]
Microsoft feuds with rivals over Vista security
Talkback Hmmm.perhaps we should look a this from an alternative perspective? Unwittingly MS might in fact be doing the computing world a favour by NOT giving any scope to turn off its embedded security components except manually.
[September 22, 2006, 12:11]
Microsoft wants to give rivals' software away
Talkback This seems to be another case of the loosers trying to use the law to keep their unpopular products in the market in the hope that some suckers will buy them. Not being funny I'd rather have Media Player than the Real and Apple Spyware offerings...
[February 18, 2004, 12:58]
Photos: Microsoft's rivals in touchscreen tech
News Microsoft garnered lots of attention when it unveiled the Surface tabletop computer, but it isn't the only company interested in multitouch interfaces. HP's giant multitouch computer was on display at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital...
[June 19, 2007, 18:29]
Rivals hit Microsoft with new EC complaint
News A group of the world's largest technology companies complained to the European Commission on Wednesday that Microsoft was guilty of anticompetitive practices. The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), which includes IBM, Nokia...
[February 22, 2006, 14:50]
Rivals take aim at Microsoft Office
News After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop-software franchise, its competitors are pouncing. Chris Swenson, a software analyst at NPD Group, said the most recent sales data on Office 2007 looks very good for...
[September 19, 2007, 8:21]
Microsoft turns up heat on security rivals
News Microsoft may be a desktop software powerhouse but, when it comes to security tools, it is still bulking up. Microsoft has not even implemented an email virus scanner in their OneCare product, not to speak about HTTP scanning or proactive detection...
[April 27, 2007, 10:25]
Microsoft deal may give BT edge over broadband rivals
News BT's alliance with Microsoft will help the telco to achieve market domination with its "no-frills" broadband product, an industry expert has predicted. It will see BT and Microsoft working together on a range of broadband applications to complement...
[November 8, 2002, 11:50]
