Google has postponed a planned Google Apps shift in which export support to older Microsoft Office document formats including Word, Excel and PowerPoint would be dropped.
JavaScript has been part of the Microsoft technology stable since the 1990s, and its prominence in the next wave of Microsoft products is huge.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/31/2012
Microsoft is upping the ante in Office 2013 by introducing full support for Open XML in addition to other document file formats.
Microsoft announced the official name of its IDE family of products, codenamed Visual Studio 11, and delivered, what are likely, the final previews of its next-generation developer tooling.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/01/2012
By responding to potential threats with thoughtfulness, and a zeal to add value, SQL and Big Data could be big business for Redmond.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/01/2012
Microsoft's BUILD announcements about Windows 8 and other technologies are a break from the past.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2011
Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, lead the two-hour long keynote offering details on the developer preview of Windows 8.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/13/2011
Microsoft had its day in court on Monday. The company is challenging longstanding legal standards and wants the burden of proof to be lowered to "preponderance of evidence" when disproving a patent.
Microsoft is currently arguing at the U.S. Supreme Court that the standard of proof is too high to disprove a patent in cases where the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office lacked prior art information. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case on April 18, with a decision expected by the end of June.
i4i's brief before the U.S. Supreme Court argues that Microsoft is seeking to "lower the standard of proof" in patent cases in a way that "conflicts with over a century of judicial precedent."
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office confirmed i4i's patent, sending another blow to Microsoft's legal strategy.
Microsoft has been dealt another blow in its ongoing patent infringement suit with i4i.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/12/2010
Microsoft disclosed more information about how Office 2010 will support the controversial ISO/IEC 29500 document format standard.
Microsoft has lost another round in the ongoing patent infringement lawsuit filed by i4i.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/11/2010
Microsoft's court loss to i4i LP has spawned a make-shift tool to check for patent-infringing technology in Word files.