Redmond's new database server is a complex product often running mission-critical apps. You can't afford to not get it right.
Microsoft today has made a surprise bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. for a $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the company's closing share price Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
Microsoft is facing its first crisis with Windows Home Server, which is causing file corruption when used with certain programs -- most of them from Microsoft itself.
Microsoft CRM 4.0 should be hitting the shelves -- virtual or otherwise -- by year’s end.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/18/2007
Exploits continue to dog Microsoft programs and applications, as a government agency announced this week that a bug is in the wild that takes advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's Access Database.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/13/2007
Browser maker Opera Software has cried foul, charging Microsoft with antitrust behavior in a complaint to the European Commission.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/13/2007
LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, this week talked more about opening up its "platform" to select partners
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/12/2007
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/05/2007
Redmond is gaining, but when will it -- or can it -- overtake longtime market leader Oracle?
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/01/2007
Policy-based management improves database performance.
- By Peter Varhol
- 12/01/2007
Tami Reller, a Microsoft Business Solutions veteran, has a new job as CFO of Microsoft's Platform & Services Division.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/29/2007
An analysis by The Associated Press reveals that targeting small businesses is a lucrative strategy for the Business Software Alliance, the main global copyright-enforcement watchdog for such companies as Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/26/2007
Responding to a soon-to-be released study revealing that as many as a half a million database servers aren't protected by firewalls, security experts contend the findings constitute a call to action for security pros and database administrators everywhere.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/14/2007
The next preview of SQL Server 2008 supports spatial data types and a new Resource Governor feature is slated to hit in a week or two.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/12/2007
Google's attempt to take a leading role in social networking has some pundits saying yet another Google vs. Microsoft battle scenario is playing out.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/06/2007