Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--"First, be unclear about what you want. Second, form a committee. Third, have a meeting. Now, you're well on your way.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/The+formula+for+project+failure/2100-9593_22-5623607.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

To date, only IBM has really got behind open source, so there could be quite a "land grab" in the coming year as more firms seize its potential.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Open+source--open+opportunity+for+consulting/2100-9593_22-5623068.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/16/05     Keywords: software, technology

Though a technology preview, software developers get their first look at Windows' new communications plumbing.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+lifts+curtain+on+Indigo/2100-9593_22-5620157.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/14/05     Keywords: software

Big Blue says it will buy Ascential Software to complement its integration tools business.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+to+acquire+Ascential+for+%241.1+billion/2100-9593_22-5614920.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

BearingPoint's new services promise to help companies find out more about their customers without intruding.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/BearingPoint%27s+customer+identity+search/2100-9593_22-5611300.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

Groove Networks founder Ray Ozzie knows exactly what he wants to do to improve Office--and Windows.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Ozzie+eager+to+set+up+new+%27Office%27/2100-9593_22-5611252.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/11/05     Keywords: microsoft

Many Microsoft MVP developers launch a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+MVPs+move+to+save+Visual+Basic/2100-9593_22-5610828.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/10/05     Keywords: software

Q&A IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would be to everyone's benefit--even Sun.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/What%27s+wrong+with+Java%3F/2100-9593_22-5608763.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/10/05     Keywords: security, microsoft

Q&A Microsoft's founder rates the company's ongoing efforts in security and discusses how to get PCs into more hands across the globe.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Gates+talks+business/2100-9593_22-5608501.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/07/05     Keywords: software, xml, web

Dan Farber: Startup Brixlogic claims that its software overcomes much of the complexity and unreliability in developing Web services derived from custom or industry standard XML schemas.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Brixlogic%3A+Next+generation+XML+services/2100-9593_22-5601399.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/01/05     Keywords: microsoft

Commentary--Microsoft deciding to release ANY source code is good for developers and a product millions rely on for their business.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Why+Microsoft+should+reveal+source+code/2100-9593_22-5593062.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/28/05     Keywords: microsoft

Commentary--Microsoft deciding to release ANY source code is good for developers and a product millions rely on for their business.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Why+Microsoft+should+reveal+SQL+Server+code/2100-9593_22-5593062.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/28/05     Keywords: software

The software giant has admitted specifically excluding users of the popular Windows compatibility toolkit with its update tool.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+tries+to+spill+%27Wine%27/2100-9593_22-5592920.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/23/05     Keywords: microsoft

Q&A CEO Bruce Chizen faces Microsoft on one flank and open-source on the other one. But is he worried? Not a bit.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Adobe+versus+the+world/2100-9593_22-5587262.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--So far the company's playing it low-key, but a barrage of verbal pyrotechnics is just around the bend.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Is+Microsoft+outFirefoxed%3F/2100-9593_22-5582067.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/16/05     Keywords: software, microsoft

Commentary--Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the discussion about software patents.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2100-9593_22-5578632.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/10/05     Keywords: web

IBM's vice president of Web services doubts that he'll meet with a customer this year or in any other year that demands they must have an SOA.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Do+customers+really+want+SOA%3F/2100-9593_22-5571283.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

The company is on track to unveil the first full test version of the next major Windows release by midyear, an exec tells CNET News.com.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft%3A+Longhorn+beta+will+arrive+by+June/2100-9593_22-5566423.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

At confab in San Francisco, firm touts tools due in its Visual Studio 2005 family of products.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+pitches+new+Visual+Studio+tools/2100-9593_22-5566412.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Combined with Mozilla Foundation's Thunderbird, the standalone calendar application could take on Outlook.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Mozilla%27s+Sunbird+spreads+its+wings/2100-9593_22-5566312.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn