While it will be some time before Linux is really much of a threat to Microsoft’s installed base or Microsoft to Linux’s, the battle for the consumer and corporate desktop was actually joined some ...

When the next version of Microsoft's operating system eventually launches, it will be into an environment unlike any faced by its predecessors. Microsoft has said publicly that Beta 1 of Longhorn ...

For Microsoft, the release of its next operating system, known as “Longhorn,” tentatively scheduled for the holiday season 2006, will be the culmination of years of effort – and mark the first major ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

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Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. spelled out details today of how they plan to put their operating systems on the same physical servers. In the first detailed road map since the two companies struck an ...

Bob Muglia may have one of the hottest seats in all of Microsoft. The desktop version of Longhorn, Microsoft's next release of Windows, may receive most of the ink. But it is the server version that ...

Longhorn Server will likely be Microsoft's most complex operating system ever, and Bob Muglia has little latitude for more slips. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based ...

Microsoft is considering updating Windows XP before it releases Longhorn, the code name for a major overhaul of the industry's dominant operating system that is not expected for about two years.