Microsoft's chief financial officer for the Online Services Division fielded questions at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Hackers are exploiting unpatched applications on Web servers and client computers to infect entire networks, according to report released Tuesday.
- By William Jackson
- 09/16/2009
Microsoft executive Charles Songhurst answered questions on Microsoft's business strategy at the Jefferies Annual Technology Conference in New York on Tuesday.
The all-critical patch release of hotfixes served up by Redmond Tuesday hadn't even cooled off yet when Microsoft issued yet another security advisory on late Tuesday night.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its September security patch, which is notable for containing five "critical" security bulletins.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/08/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a test version of an extension that's designed to help speed up PHP-based Web applications running on Windows platforms.
For the second time this year, Microsoft issued a security advisory for possible vulnerabilities in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/02/2009
New developments -- Microsoft's search deal with Yahoo! and Google's planned introduction of an OS -- are ratcheting up competition for IT dollars between the two rivals.
Microsoft's upcoming Forefront Security for Exchange 2010 is an anti-spam solution that actually works.
- By Joern Wettern
- 09/01/2009
After the Vista debacle, seven could just be the lucky number for Windows. We review seven features of Windows 7 that could make the newest version of the OS the best Microsoft has produced in years.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 09/01/2009
Two of the most troubling new threats are in the Domain Name System and Secure Sockets Layer, services users have trusted for years.
- By William Jackson
- 08/31/2009
The Social Security Administration will to test Microsoft's HealthVault software for its disability determination process.
- By Alice Lipowicz
- 08/31/2009
Zoho is making further inroads in the online office market with the introduction of a unified log-in mechanism that allows users to use their Google and Yahoo ID to access Zoho's suite of Office-like apps.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/28/2009
Spam volumes have increased fourfold during the last six months, accounting for a discouraging 94.9 percent of all e-mail delivered so far in August.
- By William Jackson
- 08/26/2009
Internet Explorer 8 will arrive as an "update rollup" via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Tuesday, Aug. 25, Microsoft announced.
Researchers from Redmond this week unveiled an anti-hacking concept that can help track hackers or malicious content to origin servers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/19/2009
If there's one thing that last month's attacks against public sector sites in both the U.S. and South Korea demonstrated, it's that the exploits of the past often come back to haunt us.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/19/2009
A consortium of IT security companies is rolling out an XML malware metadata scheme to improve data sharing within the industry.
- By William Jackson
- 08/18/2009
Denial-of-service attacks launched last year against Georgian Web sites were carried out by Russian civilians and sympathizers rather than the government.
- By William Jackson
- 08/17/2009
Microsoft is putting out the word that users of Internet Explorer 6 should upgrade to IE 8, primarily for security and standards-compliance reasons.