Oracle Corp. plans to pay US$495 million to buy Agile Software Corp., a maker of product lifecycle management software.

Microsoft Corp. reportedly wants open-source software users to pay royalties on 235 alleged patent violations.

Seagate has launched File Recovery for Windows software, designed to recover deleted or damaged files from a Windows disk or USB stick.

Microsoft Corp.'s top lawyer said Thursday that he is happy with the information the company provided about its Vista operating system, and its compatibility with existing PCs, ahead of the software's launch in January this year.

Looking to help users to more easily build low-cost storage options for Solaris-based systems from multiple vendors, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced plans to donate pieces of its storage application software and hardware technology to the OpenSolaris open-source developer community.

The man given much of the credit for overseeing the development of Microsoft Corp.'s Word software blasted into space over the weekend as the fifth space tourist.

Google Inc. has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address allegations that the software bears more than a passing resemblance to a rival's product.

The owner of a blog dedicated to software patches has posted online more than 100 fixes he said are expected to be included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft Corp.'s first major update to its latest Windows client OS.

European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes hit out at Microsoft Corp. in comments to European parliamentarians Thursday, saying it is "unacceptable" that the company continues to gain market share using tactics that were outlawed in the Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against the software vendor.

The former legal counsel for McAfee Inc. is facing federal charges of improperly backdating stock options at the security software company.

Az idei évben – immár másodszor – Kiváló Business Solutions Partner minősítéssel díjazta a Microsoft Magyarország a rEVOLUTION Software-t. A vállalat a Microsoft Dynamics NAV eladások darabszámát tekintve a 2. helyezést, az eladások értékét tekintve pedig a 3. helyezést szerezte meg a népes partneri mezőnyben. A díj odaítélésében az év során értékesített licencek darabszáma mellett, a cégvezetők következetes építő munkája és a vállalat specializációk terén felmutatott eredménye is szerepet játszott.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is acquiring a storage software company that the company says will give it important leverage in the enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) market.

Google Inc. has closed a potentially major cross-site scripting vulnerability in its Google Desktop software that could have allowed remote attackers to take control of a victim's computer and its contents.

Windows Vista can be used for as long as 120 days without agreeing to its product activation antipiracy software, the company confirmed Friday. That's four times longer than the 30 days the company has widely used as the maximum time span the operating system can be used before it shuts down.

Microsoft Corp. has significantly raised what it charges retail customers for technical support for its latest software, Windows Vista and Office 2007, while narrowing the help offered to users.

Tovább erősíti pozícióját a magyarországi CRM-piacon az update software AG. Ennek, valamint a térségben tervezett partnerhálózat-építésnek köszönhetően a közeljövőben a magyar főváros lehet a cég regionális terjeszkedésének központja.

With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft Corp. is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.

A rEVOLUTION Software a felhasználói tapasztalatokra alapozva az idei évtől kizárólag terméktámogatással együtt árulja a népszerű Iroda Sorozat számlázóprogramokat, így az év során több alkalommal megjelenő frissítésekhez a felhasználók mindig automatikusan hozzájutnak, és általuk az új jogszabályoknak megfelelően állíthatják ki számláikat. Emellett a telefonos ügyfélszolgálatot is igénybe vehetik az egész év során.

Két független nemzetközi vizsgálat során is a legjobbak között végzett az Eset Software NOD32 antivírus rendszere. A vírusirtó megkapta az osztrák AV-Comparatives a legmagasabb szintű vírusvédelemért járó Advanced+ minősítését, emellett immár 41. alkalommal nyerte el a Virus Bulletin VB 100% díját, megerősítve ezzel rekordtartó pozícióját.

The pace of change in the open source software business is likely to accelerate in 2007 as developers climb up the software stack from the operating system and databases to applications.