NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Microsoft and Fujitsu already have decided to team up, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition, citing an unnamed person familiar with the matter. Cloud computing is seen as the next big step in software services, providing online software, resources and information to computers on demand. The Journal said the joint [...]

May 11 2010 – Ashlee Vance, TheNewYorkTimes – Microsoft has created a chimera in its new Office 2010 software, part desktop software and part Web app. This latest version of Office, which includes applications like Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, is Microsoft’s long-awaited effort to modernize one of its most lucrative products and to thwart rivals [...]

Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service: Microsoft is firmly on the cloud-computing bandwagon and with good reason — it can make more money by doing so, even as it helps customers cut costs, business division head Stephen Elop said at the Convergence conference in Atlanta on Sunday. The company has spent billions so far to build [...]