SoftwareWill Microsoft deliver Windows 7 next year?

Recent hints suggest Microsoft might release the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, earlier than the expected 2010 date, suggesting that the company may also want to cut its losses on Vista.

SoftwareMicrosoft System Center gets cross-platform support

Microsoft has released beta technologies that enable its System Center software to manage servers running operating systems other than Windows.

SoftwareIs Google your next data center?

Lower costs, snap upgrades and other benefits of cloud computing are leading IT organizations to increasingly outsource traditional IT infrastructure activities like storage and server management to managed services providers. How will this alter the makeup of the IT department of the future? Computerworld looks ahead.

SoftwareGmail users report yet another outage

Gmail users, including those who use it for work as part of the Google Apps hosted suite, are again reporting p...

SoftwareSQL Server 2008's future 'cloudy' as Microsoft releases new database

Microsoft began making SQL Server 2008 available to users, slightly later than planned but still within the three-year development window that the company set for itself.

SoftwareSAP users: Support debate isn't over

SAP users say they aren't ready to accept the vendor's recent decision to push all customers to enterprise support.

SoftwareVendor rating site allows users to weigh in

Since going live in March, VendorRate.com has given business IT users a place to register comments and rate some 12,000 IT providers.

SoftwareUpdate: SAP fires back at Waste Management

SAP said in a court filing that Waste Management is to blame for problems with a problematic enterprise resource planning implementation that was started in 2005 and never completed.

SoftwareOpinion: VMware and SSL settings: How to stay safe

Using Secure Socket Layers with virtualization can be a complicated affair. Edward Haletky explains what to look out for.

SoftwareISO and IEC reject appeals, approve Open XML spec

The ISO and IEC have rejected appeals from four countries and given final approval to publish the Office Open XML specification as an international standard.