The company is aiming functions long held as the domain of consumers toward businesses. The catch: For now, many features will be available only for use with Windows XP. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

The battle over today's instant messenger market is vintage Microsoft, whose strategy enemies call "the three E's" in a parody of the company's marketing mantra: Embrace a rival's technology, extend ...

Microsoft has agreed to help with the development of an open standard for ubiquitous messaging called the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). The company announced today that it has joined the ...

Messaging middleware for Windows NT from Microsoft. Code-named Falcon, and abbreviated MSMQ, it allows programs to send messages to other programs. It can be used to queue up transactions in a ...

The battle over today's instant messenger market is vintage Microsoft, whose strategy enemies call "the three Es" in a parody of the company's marketing mantra: embrace a rival's technology, extend it ...