Called WOA, this special version of the OS will come bundled with its own version of the Office suite.

A beta version of Chrome for Android is available to people running Ice Cream Sandwich.

Also coming: a enterprise-specific version of the Google+ social-networking application.

Google is already using internally a version of Google+ with workplace-specific capabilities.

While Google officials, from CEO Larry Page on down, are all aflutter over Google+, Mark Zuckerberg views Google's new social networking site as "their own little version of Facebook."

In a court brief related to its battle with Oracle, Google also says the offending code has all been removed in the next version of Android.

A proposal calls for new releases of Extended Support Release versions of desktop Firefox only every 30 weeks.

With the next version of its Hyper-V software, Microsoft has found a way to move live VMs across different subnets.

Microsoft on Tuesday blacklisted all DigiNotar certificates after seeing active attacks from at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar. The company has released updates for all versions of Windows with the new blacklisted data.

Acer and HP are set to offer new 7-inch tablets. Compact versions may be the next tablet battleground.

Numerous fixes and stability improvements mean companies need no longer hesitate to use the Microsoft Office alternative.

Microsoft showed the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei on Thursday, unveiling a completely new tile-based interface that it hopes will be better suited for the emerging world of tablet PCs.

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled many new features to its Windows Phone software but it left out a few that some people had hoped to see.

Google gave Android developers several reasons to cheer on Tuesday with its announcement of new versions of the operating system, as well as the addition of music and movies to the Android Market.

While Microsoft has not announced the release date, or even the official name, of its follow-up to Windows 7, an early pre-beta version of the OS has surfaced on the Internet, the second version to appear within a month.

Oracle announced Friday that it will no longer sell a commercial version of the Open Office productivity suite, and that the open-source OpenOffice.org will be transitioned to "a purely community-based open-source project."

Nokia launched an updated version of its Symbian^3 mobile operating system on Tuesday, along with two phones running the software, the X7 and the E6.

New York Állam főügyésze szerint fennáll a veszélye, hogy a két cég egyesülése újabb felvásárlásokat indukálna és így árdráguláshoz, illetve a piaci verseny gyengüléséhez vezetne. Az ügyben a Szövetségi Kommunikációs Bizottság és az Igazságügyi Minisztérium is vizsgálódik.

The specification for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition has been approved unanimously, according to a posting on the Java Community Process website.

Microsoft announced the availability Wednesday of Dynamics CRM 2011, the on-premises and partner-hosted version of its CRM (customer relationship management) software.