Microsoft has bought graphics and technical-drawing company, Visio, for $1.3bn, the software giant is paying for the deal with a share swap. Shareholders of Visio will get 0.45 of a Microsoft share for every Visio share they hold.
Microsoft has so far signed up its Visio division to contribute to the scheme, and it has posted its first contributions already. Microsoft has announced a free resource for developers to share code snippets when developing in Visual Basic.
Surrey Police Force has done away with paper-based flip charts and has installed a set of networked interactive 'whiteboards' throughout the county. The board can be edited in a similar way to any other white board to produce diagrams for briefings...
Business customers routinely automate tasks such as generating charts in a spreadsheet by writing individual macros, or small programs called scripts. The company is involved in a project to migrate a UK-based company with 2,500 employees to...
Project 2003 is £484.88, Publisher is £139.99, Visio and Visio Pro costs £169.99 and £419.99 respectively. Microsoft is positioning the product, in part, as a tool to let data migrate from one application in Office to another through Extensible...
Reuters has said in the past that it expects the service to be opened up to users of Microsoft's consumer MSN Messenger product through Microsoft's pending MSN Connect program, raising the possibility of a de facto interconnect between AIM and MSN...