Sun Microsystems India on Wednesday entered into an OEM agreement with Mindtree to deploy solutions based on Java Enterprise System for customers in key vertical industries focussed on by the latter. As a first step to the agreement, Mindtree, the...

Microsoft will make XML, a standard in the next version of its Office program due out next year. The upcoming Office upgrade -- code-named "Office 12" -- will have new default XML file formats for the Word wordprocessing, the Excel spreadsheet...

Microsoft has rolled out an updated release of "Avalon" and "Indigo," two future Windows subsystems. The release, labeled "Beta 1 Release Candidate," adds two new Longhorn technologies that respectively manage digital identity and...

Microsoft has released an updated suite of tools for hosting providers, which will make it easier for Windows hosting customers to create blogs and online forums. The Web Site Starters included in the suite (Microsoft Solutions for Windows-Based...

Sun Microsystems has announced the Bangalore edition of Sun Tech Days, which is to be held on May 19 and 20 at the Bangalore Trade Centre at Whitefield. The event is targeted at professional developers, programmers, Web developers, content providers...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shed some light on the arrival of Office 12. According to Gates, the Longhorn Office release will meet Microsoft's self-imposed development schedule and will ship some time in 2006. Until Tuesday, Microsoft was...

Despite speculation that Microsoft had all but put to rest its controversial next-generation security system for Windows, "Palladium" is now set to make its first appearance in a Longhorn preview release at WinHEC 2005 later this month...

A court is blocking Microsoft Corp. from using a networking feature planned for the future operating system code-named Longhorn and a service pack for Windows Server 2003 that had been scheduled to come out last year, according to a company suing...