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.

SoftwareCisco buys into e-mail with $215M PostPath acquisition

Cisco plans to add PostPath's e-mail and calendaring capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.

SoftwareStudy: Grim outlook for U.S. IT spending

U.S. companies are reining in IT spending as the economy continues to show weakness, a new survey has found.

SoftwareVisual Studio 2008 SP1 is icing, and more cake

Service Pack 1 finally includes the ADO.Net Entity Framework, the Entity Data Model and LINQ to Entities, InfoWorld's reviewer explains.

SoftwareMicrosoft invests in Move Networks

Microsoft invested an undisclosed sum in Move Networks, a provider of online video streaming technology.

SoftwareMicrosoft Office Live Small Biz suffers outage, possibly lost e-mail

Some users of Microsoft's Office Live Small Business have reported intermittent e-mail outages.

SoftwareGoogle may let users comment on, rearrange search results

Google is testing possible changes to its market-leading search engine that would enable users to re-rank search results and add comments to results pages.

SoftwareOracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel

Oracle has integrated its on-demand CRM product with Siebel CRM.