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.
SoftwareImproving Correspondence Management for Financial Services Firms with Adobe LiveCycle ES
(Source: Adobe) This thoughtful and in-depth white paper provides information that addresses the unique communications challenges faced by banks and other financial institutions. It showcases the operational efficiencies and competitive advantages that can be gained by Adobe LifeCycle ES - a robust, single-platform solution to communicating with customers.
SoftwareExecuting on a Customer Engagement Model
(Source: Adobe) Building relationships with high-value clients is a challenge faced by many financial service providers. This white paper demonstrates how in a competitive environment, impressive bottom-line results can be generated using Adobe technology to strengthen the customer relationship across multiple touch points, including the web, phone, in person and transactions.
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.
SoftwareHow to turn a software pirate into a paying customer
V.i. Laboratories' CodeArmor Intelligence product collects data on how and where pirated software is used, and then stealthily sends it back to the software's maker
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.
SoftwareMicrosoft to buy up to $100M in Novell SUSE Linux support vouchers
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.
SoftwareSalesforce buys InStranet for call center tech
Salesforce has bought a maker of knowledge-base management software for call centers.
SoftwareApple's MobileMe lacks key security feature
Users of Apple's MobileMe have already discovered that the US$99-per-year service is sometimes slow and unrelia...
SoftwareMicrosoft may have 2,000 developers working on Windows 7
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.