An industry-sponsored report released this month questions whether Microsoft's hosted offerings always represent the lowest cost option vs. other Microsoft-stack approaches.
A group calling itself "LulzSec Reborn" released the usernames and passwords of 170,937 subscribers to a military online dating service on Sunday.
Internet Explorer 10 contains a new security feature called "enhanced protected mode" that Windows 8 beta testers may soon encounter.
Microsoft this week offered some tips about connecting the Windows 8 "customer preview" beta with Windows Home Server.
Microsoft recently disrupted a major ring whose use of malware has cost victims $477 million since 2005.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/26/2012
Microsoft on Wednesday talked about its screen-design considerations in Windows 8.
SQL Server 2012 licensing price details are just beginning to take shape as Microsoft prepares to release the product on April 1.
In the near future, the landing point for computer users will be the "personal cloud," rather than the PC desktop, according to Gartner.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/22/2012
A security report released today by Verizon that studied 855 breach incidents from last year concluded that 97 percent of them could have been avoided by "simple and intermediate controls."
Microsoft this week released its latest no-cost network administrator toolkit for assessing Windows environments.
Raghu Ramakrishnan, who formerly served as Yahoo's chief scientist, has joined Microsoft.
NComputing today announced new client software for desktop virtualization called "vSpace Client for Windows."
Windows 8 devices will be released for sale in October, according to a press report.
Hackers may have had the jump on Microsoft even as it released a "critical" patch for a Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) flaw this month.
Microsoft today used the occasion of its Convergence conference to announce upcoming new Dynamics products.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/19/2012
The OpenNebula project last week released its latest drivers supporting Hyper-V.
Microsoft this week slashed the prices of many of its Office 365 service plans by about 20 percent.
Microsoft on Tuesday described features and concepts behind its Internet Explorer 10 browsers for Windows 8.
Gartner expects that strong user adpotion of Windows 8 and steady sales of "ultrabooks" will boost the PC market next year.
Mozilla and Google say they are building browsers that will work with Windows 8, and Opera Software is looking into the possibility too.