The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
- By William Jackson
- 11/03/2008
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has formed a new committee to foster interoperability and conformance with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard, according to an announcement issued on Monday by the not-for-profit consortium.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/03/2008
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008), the second major component of its virtualization strategy.
Sun Microsystems this week announced the release of the latest version of its open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OO3).
Microsoft's CEO talked about Windows 7 and the company's vision for syncing up applications in the Internet cloud at a Gartner-sponsored event on Thursday.
A software project by a Columbia University computer science student to eliminate the need for multiple hardware-based touch interfaces is now on Microsoft's Codeplex site.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Security-minded admins have their work cut out for them, as Microsoft coughs up 11 fixes in its October patch cycle.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/14/2008
The sixth IMS/NGN Forum interoperability "plugfest," and the first to be held since the organizations formerly merged this week, will drill down into the unified communications (UC) space.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/13/2008
Yahoo's stock plunge has some reflecting to a time when Microsoft had initiated an unsolicited takeover bid for the online advertising company.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/10/2008
Yahoo plans to resolve a password security vulnerability identified last week in its Zimbra open source e-mail and collaboration software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/02/2008
Windows Server on WAAS -- an appliance that merges Cisco's Wide Area Applications Services with Windows Server 2008 -- is available to order.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/01/2008
What is clickjacking? Security pros are trying to make sense of a new bug found by researchers that apparently affects various Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/29/2008