Microsoft's disappointing second-quarter earnings showed just how dependent the software giant is on new PC sales.
Microsoft announced lower than expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter said that it will eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/22/2009
Gartner's fourth-quarter 2008 report on the PC market, announced last week, reported shrinking global and U.S. sales for the top computer makers.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/19/2009
Improved power management got briefly mentioned among the expected benefits of Windows 7 on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show.
- By Jim Barthold
- 01/08/2009
Netbooks and mobile computers will soon be able to run the Ubuntu operating system with additional energy efficiency.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/17/2008
Advanced Micro Devices will release the next generation of quad-core Opteron processors, a line formerly code-named "Shanghai," by the end of the year, according to Steve Demski, an AMD product and marketing manager.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/13/2008
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has upgraded its Cray XT-based Jaguar supercomputer, putting the machine in the running as the world's fastest supercomputer.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/13/2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.
The market for microprocessors is not immune to the economy or the forces of supply and demand, as was evidenced in a third quarter report from IDC this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/06/2008
Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Monday, and developers may be pleased with the new parallel computing capabilities now available in the CTP.
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
The Internet helps with brain function, but Google makes us dumber? Plus: Gartner finally gets virtualization; Windows 7 blog returns.
Amid market turmoil, world's largest chip maker makes positive news with an upbeat third quarter revenue report.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/15/2008
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
New security appliance gives DBAs a leg up on flaws and vulnerabilities lurking in corporate database management systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/13/2008
What a difference a little money makes -- and it's nearly $7 billion in the case of New York-based chipmaker AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), which unveiled a major investment and restructuring deal on Tuesday.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/09/2008
In a survey of CIOs, network admin skills -- particularly, expertise with Cisco, Nortel and other networking technologies -- continue to be in strong demand.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/07/2008
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/03/2008
Ten PCs = One Car? Here's how Microsoft interprets and derives this oft-repeated factoid.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/01/2008
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