Richmond (VA) - Microsoft and Novell are currently known as partners, but an anti-trust lawsuit will soon severely test that "marriage". Read more

Canada-based multimedia software provider Corel will transfer is Minnesota R&D operations in the US to Corel Taiwan, according to Jeremy Liang, president of Corel Taiwan. Read more

The SCO Group plans to emerge from Chapter 11 soon and revealed that not only will it modify its business strategy towards mobile products, it will also replace chief executive officer Darl McBride and pick up the Linux and Unix license lawsuits against IBM and Novell. Read more

Microsoft today continued its online ping-pong game with Google and launched "Microsoft Online Services for Businesses of All Sizes" in the growing software-as-a-service (SAAS) arena. A trial of the beta is available for free, but Microsoft will be charging subscription fees when the service goes online in the second half of the year. Read more

As Microsoft struggles to gain a stronger foothold in the Web advertising game, its research and development arms aren’t sitting still. The company’s adCenter Labs provided a sneak peek of some of its next-generation advertising concepts Tuesday at an Read more

Santa Clara (CA) - Sun is entering the database market and has agreed to purchase MySQL AB, developer of the popular SQL database management system SQL. Sun will shell out about $1 billion for the open source software and integrate it into its own soft Read more

Reversing its initial decision to keep the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 release candidate restricted to private testers, Microsoft has made the near-complete upgrade available for download to the general public. Although still not a final version of Vi Read more

Oslo (Norway) - Opera, the other browser company, released version 9.25 of their browser late last night. Opera has been benchmarked and shown to have the fastest Javascript execution of any major browser. Opera has mouse gesturing, tabs, a speed dial Read more

Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has begun public trials of its new virtualization software program, called Hyper-V. That software is designed to go head-to-head with VMware’’s ESX Server. Wall Street quickly responded to the news, with VMware shares dropping Read more

Oslo (Norway) - Niche Internet browser company Opera has filed a complaint against Microsoft, alleging its tie-in of Internet Explorer into Windows violates European Union guidelines. Opera says Microsoft needs to give users a choice of what Internet s Read more

Microsoft today said it has acquired Multimap, a UK-based online mapping service, for an undisclosed sum. Microsoft said that it will use Multimap to complement existing services such as Virtual Earthm Live Search, Windows Live and its recently acquired A Read more

Microsoft releases their 90-day free trial download of Visual Studio 2008. Download and burn to DVD for install. Read more

The Software and Information Industry Association has unveiled a new program for software resellers that agree to not sell pirated or stolen programs. Read more

Online newsletters and other cyber documents tailored to a specific product or service category may soon become sprinkled with ads powered jointly by Adobe and Yahoo. Read more