Microsoft is sending a team of independent auditors to a factory in southern China to investigate allegations that the factory employs underage workers under appalling working and living conditions.
- By Natasha Watkins
- 04/16/2010
Sales of PCs worldwide grew 24.2 percent during the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2009, according to preliminary figures released today by IDC.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/14/2010
Microsoft is outsourcing its IT help desk, PC, infrastructure and application support to Bangalore, India-based Infosys in a three-year deal that involves 450 Microsoft locations in 104 countries.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/13/2010
A comeback has begun for the global IT tech sector, according to a quarterly economic report released on Friday.
Even though the product will actually hit the market sometime in May, Microsoft will kick off a "launch tour" of SQL Server 2008 R2 on April 21, 2010.
Welcome to Redmond magazine's newest column, directed at IT decision makers and influencers.
As the cost of energy rises and budgets collapse, thinking green isn't just an option for IT -- it's a necessity. Fortunately, there are more options than ever to reduce your energy footprint, even as you add capacity.
It's been almost three years since Microsoft threw down the gauntlet by claiming that open source and Linux software infringed on 235 of the company's patents.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 04/01/2010
The market for venture money appears to have bottomed out as VCs remain cautious.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/31/2010
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have established a pilot program for enterprise Windows Server licensees.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/26/2010
Datacenter virtualization projects can open up security issues, according to research from Gartner.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 03/22/2010
Microsoft will no longer sell its Select software licensing after July 1, 2011, with Select Plus taking its place.
- By Anne Watkins
- 03/22/2010
San Francisco-based research and analysis group Focus has named systems engineer as the "best job in America."
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/22/2010
Microsoft reacted this week to a claim that its Virtual PC hypervisor contains a security hole.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/18/2010
Data analyst allegedly inserted code after being told he was losing his job.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 03/16/2010
Microsoft and Adobe are working together on the security patch process.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/16/2010
Microsoft published a workaround for an in-the-wild vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, described last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/15/2010
Global IT expenditure is expected to increase slightly this year, according to reports released this week.
- By Anne Watkins
- 03/10/2010
As expected, Microsoft today released two "important" patches in its March security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/09/2010
A Microsoft-funded report found that IE 8 outperformed four other browsers in protecting against socially engineered malware.