Microsoft’s 5 biggest weaknesses

Microsoft isn’t going anywhere. The company’s wide mix of software will help it stay relevant to businesses and consumers for many years to come

IBM says we’re moving into the post-PC era, but Microsoft begs to disagree

Microsoft is still grappling with the question of how much functionality to extend to the browser-based versions of Office

Licences and upgrades can be costly, but asking the right questions can mean major savings

The debate is fierce but the jury still appears to be out

Cybercrime could be the new outsourcing

PC sales are still growing, but maybe not fast enough for some companies

VMware’s new Cloud Foundry beta service suffered downtime over the course of two days last week

Exams will increase in price starting July 1

Things do fail and customers should not interpret a 100 per cent service-level commitment as a 100 per cent service-level guarantee

Deal for Novell’s patents would let the four companies split the patents and immunize themselves from any potential lawsuits

We focus on the rivals we think pose the biggest threat to Redmond and give a status update on each rivalry

Company also expected to lower price of an enterprise license that includes more robust access to key Microsoft software

Microsoft’s goal is to push IE6 usage under one per cent

HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance is available this week starting at nearly $2M