Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 apparently will have its product debut some time next year, according to an announcement by the company.
Redmond is rolling out a free anti-virus software program for consumers that will compete with products made by Symantec and McAfee.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/19/2008
Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/14/2008
Microsoft plans to roll out updates to its Windows Live services and Windows Live Essentials offerings, which are aimed at consumer users.
Microsoft executive David Treadwell today provided a few more details about the company's Azure Services Platform in a Webinar aimed at the investment community.
Redmond rolled out two patches on Tuesday -- one deemed "critical" and one "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/11/2008
Microsoft has developed four demonstration applications that showcase its Live Mesh cloud-based data synchronization service, according to a report issued on Tuesday by veteran Microsoft watcher, Mary-Jo Foley.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008
VMware today announced a new market direction involving the mobile telecom market: VMware will target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.
Spammers have jumped on the global financial crisis to lure unsuspecting victims into their botnets. And, in the wake of last week's election, President-elect Barack Obama also has emerged as bait for other large spam campaigns.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Yahoo's CEO at a tech conference admits to second-guessing the Microsoft offer and offers his assessment of the Google deal gone bad.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/07/2008
Calling it a distraction to its core mission, Google pulled the plug on an advertising agreement with Yahoo, according to statements from both companies Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/06/2008
Wireless service providers will be able to take advantage of the locally unused television RF spectrum known as white space for high-speed Internet access under widely anticipated rules adopted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
- By William Jackson
- 11/06/2008
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
Google Inc. has rolled out a security patch for a flaw found last week in its Android operating system for mobile devices.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2008
Yahoo, the advertising and search-engine giant that's taken a beating lately on the stock market, has hired a former Microsoft exec to help scale revenues.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/04/2008
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will offer a new software development platform for cloud computing added new energy to the debate over how and when organizations might begin turning to the technology.
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