We take a look at all the various sources of data Microsoft collects from customers, how it stores and uses that data, and how its use of it stacks up against Google and other competitors.
IE9 promises native support for video and scalable vector graphics, but IT organizations likely will depend on Flash and Silverlight in the near term.
For years, Microsoft has insisted that the browser is an integral part of the operating system, yet the company's current strategies with IE 6 and IE 9 make that argument an absurdity.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 07/01/2010
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the third "platform preview" release of its Internet Explorer 9 browser prototype.
As the Obama administration and Congress propose various measures to improve the nation's cybersecurity, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is planning to spend "multiple billions of dollars" on cybersecurity research.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 06/23/2010
The Obama administration plans to release late this week a draft of a new national strategy for improving capabilities to identify and authenticate people, organizations and infrastructure in cyberspace, the White House's top cyber official said today.
Big targets are always easy to hit. Perhaps no company in the modern age of commerce knows this better than Microsoft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/21/2010
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released two draft publications as part of its Cryptographic Key Management Project, an effort to help agencies in their adoption of more advanced cryptographic algorithms and the management of stronger keys.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2010
What do the FBI, Microsoft and the American Bankers Association all have in common? Answer: they're all collaborating against online fraud.
Microsoft launched its free Windows Live versions of Office Web Apps on Monday.
Microsoft today released 10 fixes in its June security update, with three deemed "critical" and seven considered "important" to patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/08/2010
Plus: Ten for June's Patch Tuesday; MS responds to Google Banning Windows; Adobe encounters another critical security flaw.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/07/2010
Three "critical" and seven "important" fixes will be coming your way.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/04/2010
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and industry are developing a National Cyber Range to test network attack-and-defend strategies.
- By Barry Rosenberg
- 06/02/2010
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser showed a U.S. market share gain in May compared with competing browsers.
Google restricts the use of Windows by its employees, according a story by the Financial Times on Monday.
Big Blue bolsters WebSphere with B-to-B transaction processing platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/24/2010
A report issued on Wednesday by Forrester Research chronicles the declining use of Windows XP, as well as Internet Explorer 6, as staples of the corporate desktop.
Google announced on Wednesday that it has released its VP8 video codec into open source under the WebM open Web media project.
Microsoft released the second platform preview of Internet Explorer 9 for review by testers.