Due to objections from four countries, the International Organization for Standardization has temporarily put a hold on publishing Microsoft Office Open XML as an ISO standard.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/10/2008
Microsoft's Tech-Ed North America event for IT professionals kicked off today with a keynote address on enabling "dynamic IT."
Redmond projects a rollout of seven fixes, with three rated critical, three important and one moderate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/05/2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
Microsoft continued to investigate what it called public reports of a remote code execution threat for XP and Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser is installed.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2008
In the first installment of this SMB tutorial, Emmett walks you through the first few steps of configuring SMB on a Windows home network, using Fedora 8 as an example.
- By Emmett Dulaney
- 06/01/2008
Google's long-percolating application development environment, the Google App Engine, is now generally available to the public at large, the company said today.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/28/2008
Sometime this summer, Microsoft plans to roll out Service Pack 1 for Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 according to a recent team blog announcement.
Senior Technical Account Manager at Microsoft New Zealand Nick MacKechnie posted on his MSDN blog that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is coming in the "third quarter" of this year.
Microsoft released an international beta of its Office Live Workspace (OLW) suite of productivity tools. The company also quietly launched an Office Live Update last week.
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
Cross-platform developers can now download the source code for Moonlight, the open source project chartered with building a Silverlight runtime for Linux.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/19/2008
Microsoft last week released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2008
Three patches will target critical remote code execution exploits in Microsoft Office, Publisher and the Jet Database Engine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/08/2008