The Register - Software: ApplicationsBiting the hand that feeds ITBill Gates has gone, what's his legacy- June 30, 2008 From hippy to hanger-on This week marks another first in the 33-year history of Microsoft - life without Billg. The company and the man who co-founded it and rose to become the world's richest geek have parted ways. Bill Gates is no longer chief software architect and will be checking in only as company chairman.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/30/farewell_gates/ Microsoft bags MobiComp, woos Powerset- June 27, 2008 On the rebound Redmond still looking for Mr Goodbuy Microsoft is continuing its rounds of the software singles scene after Yahoo!'s rejection of its overtures.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/27/microsoft_buying_powerset_... WebLogic man goes full circle with SpringSource- June 25, 2008 Second wind for Java application servers We had an interesting conversation with Peter Cooper-Ellis, the guy who ran product management at BEA Systems from the time it acquired WebLogic and who's now taking on a similar role with SpringSource. Obviously, in the wake of the Oracle acquisition, it's not surprising that Cooper-Ellis jumped ship.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/bea_springsource_back_to_f... Hyperic tells Amazon's cloud to turn its head, cough- June 25, 2008 New CloudStatus site monitors the ...cloud ...status... Open source systems management specialist Hyperic is sticking its inquisitive probe into Amazon.com's cloud.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/hyperic_cloudstatus_launch... Adobe swings out Acrobat 9- June 25, 2008 Flashier version lands Adobe Systems today released the latest version of its document creation software Acrobat 9.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/adobe_acrobat_9/ Microsoft dishes up Mac Office converters- June 25, 2008 Arrives months after Office 2008's debut Microsoft has finally released file format converters that allow Office 2004 for Mac to read the Open XML file formats that were introduced in Office 2007 for Windows.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/office_2004_mac_converters... Google's Gmail verboten in Germany- June 24, 2008 'Bummer' Travelers to Germany will no longer be able to access Google's Gmail the easy way due to the firm's long-running trademark lawsuit with German businessman Daniel Giersch.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/no_access_to_gmail_in_germ... Google preps conflict of interest-tastic web analytics tool- June 24, 2008 Have you thought about giving your money to Google, sir Mark this as an escalation of Google's recent skirmish with the web analytics industry: the search omnicorp is launching a free tool to target surfers that will compete with subscription services offered by comScore and Nielsen.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/google_adplanner/ Salesforce.com marches on IBM's Notes business- June 24, 2008 Follows Microsoft into battle After more than a decade of seeing its massive Lotus Notes business threatened by Microsoft, IBM faces a new threat: Salesforce.com.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/salesforce_notes_migration... Red Hat opens Satellite service code for Spacewalk- June 19, 2008 Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Summit Red Hat is opening the code of its Network Satellite Server, the locally hosted service behind the Red Hat Network (RHN) management platform.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/19/red_hat_summit_2008_spacew... |