Microsoft will buy and resell up to another $100 million in Novell SUSE Linux support vouchers, continuing a cross-licensing deal the two companies made two years ago.
Microsoft's head of engineering for the Windows 7 operating system says there are 25 "feature teams" of about 100 employees each working on the upcoming replacement to Windows Vista.
In a lawsuit filed quietly in a federal court in Texas that is seen as a favorable venue for patent suits, Sybase is charging start-up Vertica Systems with infringement.
Email Prioritizer uses various algorithms to automatically identify the importance or urgency of e-mail messages delivered into an Outlook 2007 in-box.
Google's effort to develop an open-source platform for mobile phone applications arises from its belief that mobile devices will offer stronger revenue opportunities than desktop computing.
The fee-elimination program applies to 41 Microsoft server applications, including certain editions of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Dynamics CRM 4.0, and SharePoint Server 2007.
The examining attorney for the Patent Office made an initial refusal of Dell's request, saying the term was too generic to be acceptable as a trademark.
