Microsoft is working with the government to establish secure system settings that are expected to become the Federal Desktop Core Configuration for Windows 7.
- By William Jackson
- 06/29/2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced that hotfixes are now available to patch a SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) glitch that surfaced last month.
In an effort to give students a portal to real-world volunteer service, the federally operated Corporation for National and Community Service has announced a partnership with Microsoft to establish a virtual helpdesk.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 06/25/2009
The beta trial for Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 1.0 is now closed after 75,000 testers downloaded it following Tuesday's debut.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/24/2009
Microsoft has extended service-pack support for its Dynamics products from 12 months to 24 months, the company announced on Tuesday.
The downturn in the economy is affecting the role and spending strategies of IT organizations, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft.
Plus: DirectShow bug not fixed yet; MasterCard makes PCI auditing even more difficult; accidently hacking Twitter via shortened URLs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/23/2009
Microsoft last week rolled out a beta of its new planning tool, which is designed to help its partners and customers migrate to products within the Microsoft stack.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/23/2009
Microsoft last week released a public beta of Configuration Manager Service Pack 2.
Microsoft on Tuesday will roll out a public test version of its free consumer security application, which was previously known by its code name, "Morro."
Microsoft found a problem with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a new data synchronization plug-in launched by Google last week.
Plus: Microsoft's "Morro"; U.S. Senator ticked at cyber coordinator role.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/16/2009
A report shows many organizations have limited or no knowledge of the systems to which their active and terminated employees actually have access.
Cyber-Ark's survey reveals that a significant number of IT staff use their IT administration rights to access privileged or confidential data.
Microsoft is releasing new betas of Forefront enterprise security products, according to announcements issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/11/2009
A setting in Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista can help stave off a particular remote code execution attack, according to Microsoft's security team.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2009
Google just made it easier for IT organizations to ditch Microsoft Exchange Server.
Cost-cutting IT organizations may delay Microsoft Office upgrades, but they don't appear to be switching to alternative productivity suites, according to a Forrester survey.
It only took six months for Microsoft to break its own record for addressing the most vulnerabilities in a single patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/09/2009
The release candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available for public testing, Microsoft announced on Monday.