After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft’s Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of ...

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Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore. The company will become a platinum sponsor of the Apache ...

Microsoft can no longer pretend that even its best customers live in a homogeneous world. Nearly all must deal with Apache servers -- the latest Netcraft survey shows Apache with 49% of the market, ...

REDMOND, Wash., and MILAN, Italy — March 25, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. and Sourcesense, a leading European open source systems integration consultancy, today announced that the two companies will ...

Apache grew far more rapidly in 2003 than its nearest rival, Microsoft's Internet Information Services, according to a new survey - meaning the open-source software remains by far the most widely used ...

Microsoft has released two open source tools on CodePlex that let developers more easily create apps for Outlook PST files. Those tools are not only open source, they’ve been released under the Apache ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--Tired of playing second fiddle in Web hosting, Microsoft is revamping its server software in an attempt to snatch market share away from the popular Apache-Linux combination. When the ...

Microsoft has contributed source code to Apache's Stonehenge project, an open source effort that collects sample implementations of applications that are built with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ...

Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore. The company will become a platinum sponsor of the Apache ...

After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft’s Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of ...