Stuart J. Johnston

I remember a night in 1984 when my next door neighbor, a game developer, got one of the very first Macs from his publisher. The wow factor overwhelmed us

Microsoft  announced on Thursday that it will take a pre-tax charge of between $1.05 and $1.15 billion to extend the warranties on its popular Xbox

It's not often that Microsoft  apologizes to customers. In a rare case this week, however, the company is doing just that. The apology is to

Microsoft is shipping two new "reference applications packs" or RAPs for its Office Business Applications (OBA) initiative – one providing guidance

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been a flash point in the often contentious debate about open standards for digital document formats over the past

The electronic spreadsheet arguably was the "killer application" that kicked off the personal computer revolution. Today, the spreadsheet's ability to

Motorola  announced Thursday that it has released version 1 of an open source project aimed at providing a standard for high-availability middleware

A group of purveyors of competing identity metasystems met this week to hear large customers discuss their interests in promoting interoperability among

Microsoft announced this week it has begun shipping new community technology previews (CTP) of two key upcoming server products – Windows Server

Call it "supercomputing smackdown." Today, at the International Supercomputing Conference 2007 (ISC07) in Dresden, Germany, the Top500 group announced its

Just when Microsoft's legal eagles figured they'd gotten that whole nasty Vista versus Google desktop search episode behind it, the search vendor went

HP announced Monday that it has added advanced server power consumption control as well as collaborative remote administration capabilities to its Insight