Microsoft and Citrix Add Longhorn to Pact

Grok Headline matches for Microsoft and Citrix Add Longhorn to Pact

Microsoft, Citrix renew vows for
Longhorn server era

Microsoft, Citrix renew vows for
Longhorn server era 12/22/2004 01:57 AM
iTnews Dec 22 2004 6:20AM GMT

Microsoft, Citrix in tech deal

Microsoft, Citrix in tech deal 12/22/2004 01:56 AM
Economictimes Dec 22 2004 6:35AM GMT

Microsoft, Citrix sign collaboration
agreement

Microsoft, Citrix sign collaboration
agreement 12/28/2004 09:28 PM
SearchVB.com Dec 29 2004 1:31AM GMT

Microsoft, Citrix strike patent-sharing
deal

Microsoft, Citrix strike patent-sharing
deal 12/22/2004 01:26 AM
ZDNet Dec 21 2004 4:30PM GMT

Citrix and Microsoft Sign Technology
Collaboration and Licensing ...

Citrix and Microsoft Sign Technology
Collaboration and Licensing ... 12/22/2004 01:48 AM
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced an agreement with Microsoft Corporation that enables Citrix to deliver more comprehensive access solutions on the Windows platform and will improve the access capabilities available in the forthcoming version of Windows Server codenamed "Longhorn."

Citrix Enables Microsoft Federal
Government Customers to Take a Software
Test Drive

Citrix Enables Microsoft Federal
Government Customers to Take a Software
Test Drive 04/18/2005 08:41 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 12:39PM GMT

HCL Tech in pact with Microsoft

HCL Tech in pact with Microsoft 06/23/2004 03:50 PM
The Hindu Business Line Jun 23 2004 7:59PM GMT

Microsoft Corp. announces pact with EU

Microsoft Corp. announces pact with EU 03/30/2005 02:11 AM
China Post Mar 30 2005 6:40AM GMT

Microsoft, Reliance in gaming pact

Microsoft, Reliance in gaming pact 12/28/2003 11:43 PM
India has got a good gaming market and Microsoft Corporation and Reliance Infocomm would jointly tap this potential while introducing more games, Microsoft India said here on Sunday.

Millions more for Sun from Microsoft
patent pact?

Millions more for Sun from Microsoft
patent pact? 04/09/2004 06:43 PM

Judge Says Microsoft Complying with
Antitrust Pact

Judge Says Microsoft Complying with
Antitrust Pact 01/23/2004 02:25 PM

Java's Future Secured in Microsoft Pact

Java's Future Secured in Microsoft Pact 04/14/2004 05:02 PM
Microsoft agrees to patch support of JVM until 2007. James Gosling's note to the Java community: 'Relax. Have a little faith.'

Users wait for results from Microsoft,
Sun pact

Users wait for results from Microsoft,
Sun pact 03/30/2005 03:52 AM

napps.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0328userswait.html
track this site | 3 links

Judge: Microsoft Antitrust Pact Working

Judge: Microsoft Antitrust Pact Working 01/23/2004 04:16 PM
Boston Globe Jan 23 2004 8:08PM GMT

Sun-Microsoft pact whets users'
appetites

Sun-Microsoft pact whets users'
appetites 04/14/2004 10:22 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 14 2004 2:08PM GMT

Users wait for results from
Microsoft-Sun pact

Users wait for results from
Microsoft-Sun pact 03/28/2005 10:00 AM
One year ago Microsoft and Sun Microsystems struck a peace accord that has been described as a watershed event for the technology industry and a potential boon for users. Although the deal ended the antagonism between the companies, users still may have to wait well into the 10-year alliance to see major results.

Microsoft and Sun agree to historic
noncompetition pact

Microsoft and Sun agree to historic
noncompetition pact 04/12/2004 01:06 AM

Computing giants Microsoft and Sun announced a pact of noncompetition . Microsoft agreed to pay nearly $2 billion (and perhaps more ) to settle Sun's legal charges concerning unfair competition with their Java language.

Although some details remain to be worked out, speculation about potential effects of the pact is widespread. Gartner posted an analysis suggesting the two may join to expand their combined share of the server market. The future of Java, the powerful and popular language developed by Sun, is uncertain . Additionally, Microsoft has neutralized a powerful opponent , at least for the moment.

Motivations for this pact are various, and much discussed. The combination may be faced against Linux and IBM, as the open source operating system threatens both companies' operations, including Sun's Solaris/SPARC platforms. Financially, Microsoft ends a potentially costly suit, while Sun is dealing with high losses this year.

Appeals court OKs Microsoft antitrust
pact

Appeals court OKs Microsoft antitrust
pact 06/30/2004 05:53 PM
MSNBC Jun 30 2004 9:58PM GMT

Judge says Microsoft antitrust pact is
working

Judge says Microsoft antitrust pact is
working 01/26/2004 01:16 AM
Sydney Morning Herald Jan 26 2004 5:16AM GMT

Microsoft signs security pact with
Germany

Microsoft signs security pact with
Germany 05/03/2004 12:24 PM
CEO Steve Ballmer settles a security agreement with the federal government of Germany, which has become one of the most prominent of Linux supporters.

Judge: Microsoft Antitrust Pact Working
(Reuters)

Judge: Microsoft Antitrust Pact Working
(Reuters) 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
Reuters - A federal judge on Friday said she was satisfied with Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) efforts to comply with its landmark antitrust settlement after the company announced new steps, including free access to some of its Windows operating system code.

Q&A: IBM's Steve Mills on CA, the
Sun/Microsoft pact, outsourcing

Q&A: IBM's Steve Mills on CA, the
Sun/Microsoft pact, outsourcing 04/20/2004 04:51 PM
Steve Mills, head of IBM's Software Group, talked with Computerworld about controversial issues ranging from the federal investigation of fraud at CA to offshore outsourcing.

Judge satisfied with how Microsoft
antitrust pact is working

Judge satisfied with how Microsoft
antitrust pact is working 01/23/2004 05:19 PM
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly brushed aside concerns from the Justice Department that a key provision has failed to live up to expectations.

Microsoft Back in Court to Defend
Antitrust Pact

Microsoft Back in Court to Defend
Antitrust Pact 11/03/2003 03:39 PM
Attorneys for Microsoft Corp. head back to federal court on Tuesday to defend a landmark antitrust settlement from a last-ditch challenge from Massachusetts' attorney general and other critics. The two sides will square off before a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, with critics of the settlement arguing it should be overturned and stricter sanctions imposed on the world's largest software maker.

Microsoft back in court to defend
antitrust pact

Microsoft back in court to defend
antitrust pact 11/03/2003 06:00 PM
The two sides will square off before a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, with critics arguing the settlement should be overturned.

Harsh reality drives Sun pact with rival
Microsoft

Harsh reality drives Sun pact with rival
Microsoft 04/12/2004 02:13 AM
Silicon Republic Apr 12 2004 6:46AM GMT

Users wait for results from
Microsoft-Sun pact (InfoWorld)

Users wait for results from
Microsoft-Sun pact (InfoWorld) 03/28/2005 10:13 AM
InfoWorld - One year ago Microsoft and Sun Microsystems struck a peace accord that has been described as a watershed event for the technology industry and a potential boon for users. Although the deal ended the antagonism between the companies, users still may have to wait well into the 10-year alliance to see major results.

Microsoft antitrust pact bounces back to
court

Microsoft antitrust pact bounces back to
court 11/04/2003 05:21 AM
ZDNet Nov 4 2003 3:47AM ET

Microsoft: May expectations for Longhorn

Microsoft: May expectations for Longhorn 04/14/2004 01:16 PM
Alpha code for WinHEC?

Microsoft in PR Push For Longhorn

Microsoft in PR Push For Longhorn 04/15/2005 08:57 PM
Internet News Apr 16 2005 12:39AM GMT

Microsoft Says Longhorn to Be HD DVD
Compatible

Microsoft Says Longhorn to Be HD DVD
Compatible 07/26/2004 10:33 AM

How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn

How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
Never in its history has Microsoft (MSFT ) had to wait so long between Windows releases. When Windows XP launched in October, 2001, researcher Gartner Inc. expected the software giant to gin up a new version within two years. But Microsoft's ambitious follow-up to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn, has bogged down in delays. The company rarely discloses timelines for products, lest it miss its targets. But in copies of two e-mail messages obtained by BusinessWeek, Microsoft lays out a roadmap that shows Longhorn debuting in the first six months of 2006.

What's more, the e-mails disclose Microsoft's plans to cut some of the most far-reaching pieces of Longhorn in order to get the product shipped. For instance, Microsoft had planned to overhaul the file system, the way information is stored. The goal had been to change the way files relate to one another, so that users could quickly find documents, e-mail, and photos that have some connection to one another. It would be easy, for example, to locate not just digital photos, but e-mail from people in them. It's an enormous undertaking.

Leaner Longhorn From Microsoft

Leaner Longhorn From Microsoft 12/30/2004 02:26 PM
Partners first heard whispers about Longhorn, the innovative next-generation of Windows with a completely new kernel, way back in 2002 or earlier. It was supposed to be in beta in 2003. Didn't happen. This year, Microsoft finally 'fessed up about its Longhorn travails, and in the process unveiled some significant technical compromises it would make to get the operating system out the door for its official release date of late 2006 (for the client) and late 2007 (for the server).

The compromise in question is the decision to take Longhorn to market sans its most heralded, new feature, WinFS (Windows File System). WinFS is a unified file system that would sport innovative search capabilities that make retrieving an array of desktop system file types much simpler. Apparently, developing WinFS is anything but simple, however, and certainly not easy enough to do by the first release of Longhorn. To soften the blow, Microsoft has promised to deliver two other key Longhorn components, the Web services/communications subsystem Indigo and the graphics subsystem Avalon, in the first iteration of the OS. In addition to that, Indigo and Avalon will also be released as individual components for use on existing Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines. The intent is to let developers and integrators at least get started with some elements of the technology, and it's a decision that many partners have applauded.

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS 06/24/2005 06:55 PM

Microsoft on Friday announced its intention to fully support the RSS Web publishing standard in its next generation version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, along with plans to help application developers more easily create RSS-enabled applications for Windows.

Officials said the company is proposing its own Simple List extensions to RSS that will better allow the technology to support ordered lists of information. Presently, RSS feeds are sent and received as streams of messages with their order being determined only by the time they were sent. Microsoft's extensions are reportedly offering a way to add ordering information so RSS feeds can more intelligently handle, for instance, a Web site's list of best-selling items.

"The RSS [Simple List] extensions we are developing can allow a content publisher to enable a Web site to publish feeds that represent ordered lists of items. We will make these extensions widely available to developers through the Creative Commons [license]," said Megan Kidd, a group product manager on the Windows team.

Microsoft has already done some "baseline work at the platform level" that supports a range of basic functions that are contained in all applications that support RSS, which should help lighten their overall development effort.

"RSS feeds now come through Weblogs but it will go way beyond that. For instance, if you are at a conference and go to that Web site, subscribe to a feed that has all the conference information, you can have an RSS feed right into your calendar application like Outlook that will automatically update you on all changes being made at the conference like keynotes and sessions," Kidd said.

Some industry observers were encouraged not only by Microsoft's endorsement of the technology, but also because the software giant appears uninterested in dominating the technology and is being proactive in trying to help create commercial opportunities for other application developers.

"When Microsoft would talk about embracing and extending a technology, many would interpret that as engulfing and devouring. In this case, they seem to be really going out of their way to talk about extending but not co-opting this technology. The fact they are releasing this under the Creative Commons License, the same license that RSS is released under, is a pretty big deal in and of itself," said Michael Gartenberg, a vice president and research director at Jupiter Research.

Another upside for Microsoft, according to Gartenberg and others, is that the inclusion of RSS in Longhorn, along with the commitment to help ISVs create compatible applications, is that it builds more interest around Longhorn among developers and users, something the upcoming product needs.

"This should get developers a little more pumped up over Longhorn," Gartenberg said.

The downside about the move however, is that many smaller developers with RSS technologies will have the added pressure of having to be more innovative with their applications in order to stay ahead of much larger developers as RSS-based products become more of a commodity.

Asked about Microsoft's plans to incorporate RSS support into its upcoming Office 12 suite of desktop applications, Kidd said, "you can expect to see some functionality with Outlook," but that the company has yet to formulate any specific plans.

Microsoft will also make it easier for users to discover feeds within their browsers by illuminating icons that allow them to easily see what RSS feeds are available to them at any given moment. The company will also allow users to view the feed live from within the browser, which Kidd said is not available today.

"They will be able to actually see the feed, pick the one they want to subscribe to. We want to make it a one click experience," Kidd said.

Microsoft is expected to make the announcement Friday at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle.

SEE ALSO:

SAP hunts execs for sport, Gates falls a little short

Experts split on port 445 security risk

ADVERTISEMENT
IBM
Discover a better way to manage the business of IT with IBM(R) Tivoli(TM) solutions.

Microsoft guts Longhorn

Microsoft guts Longhorn 08/30/2004 08:39 AM
SLEEPING SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has decided to release Longhorn in 2006, earlier than planned. However, because it is coming out earlier, Longhorn will be trimmed of some of the more innovative stuff that has been seen in earlier builds.

Microsoft Strips Longhorn

Microsoft Strips Longhorn 08/30/2004 06:52 AM

I just don't get it. Microsoft is what the richest company in America yet they can't get key features into a product in time. The employ what 10,000 people over there in Redmond. Geez all I can say is thank goodness Windows XP is performing the way it is because I remember when they released that abortion of a operating system called Windows ME. I wonder if Longhorn will end up being like ME. [Dan Gillmor]

Tell Microsoft What You Want to See in
Longhorn Server

Tell Microsoft What You Want to See in
Longhorn Server 04/14/2004 09:01 AM
The Microsoft Windows Server team is soliciting feedback on the features users want to see in future versions of Windows Server, including the forthcoming Longhorn Server.

Microsoft gives more Longhorn details

Microsoft gives more Longhorn details 04/16/2005 02:44 AM
TechSpot Apr 16 2005 7:29AM GMT

Microsoft to use Longhorn to secure Web

Microsoft to use Longhorn to secure Web 03/28/2005 11:01 AM
MICROSOFT will tackle the growing fear of identity theft in its upcoming version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, with a technology it calls ‘info-cards’, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The scheme bears a resemblance to the Passport scheme Microsoft tried reasonably unsuccessfully to introduce to its online services like MSN and Hotmail, as it relies on users being willing to hand over their personal data to 'trusted' companies. Info-cards, said the Journal, will allow users to "selectively disclose information about themselves to businesses or others online". The software will store users’ personal information such as credit-card numbers or phone numbers and allow data to be transferred in an encrypted form "that can be decoded only by trusted Web sites".
Grok Description matches for Microsoft and Citrix Add Longhorn to Pact
GrokA matches for Microsoft and Citrix Add Longhorn to Pact

Microsoft and Citrix Add Longhorn to Pact

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: