The Homeland Security and Commerce departments are evaluating a list of possible voluntary industry standards that may be implemented to combat malicious networks of compromised computers controlled by online criminals.
- By William Jackson
- 10/14/2011
Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday.
The clouds came out on Day 2 of the SQL PASS Summit with Microsoft announcing a new SQL Azure release and new features to come.
New security evasion techniques can be used to get through firewalls, researchers contend.
- By William Jackson
- 10/12/2011
U.S. and Canadian users of Research in Motion's (RIM) smartphone devices reported experiencing outages of e-mail, Internet and messaging services today.
Microsoft inched even closer to Hadoop at the PASS Summit 2011, held in Seattle this week, and announced a few product name changes along the way.
Microsoft today released its October Security Bulletin, which includes eight bulletins that address 23 vulnerabilities -- with two bulletins labeled "critical" and six "important."
Microsoft indicated this month that it will no longer make standalone Zune hardware devices.
Zero-day software vulnerabilities may be alarming, but a new report from Microsoft sees them as not the biggest risk for organizations and PC users.
Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008.
The European Commission approved Microsoft's acquisition of Skype this week, paving the way for Microsoft to integrate Skype's voice-over-IP technologies and services.
In an announcement by Microsoft today, both SharePoint 2007 and Office 2007 will be receiving Service Pack 3 by the end of the year.
Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday.
Microsoft released information on eight patches in its advanced notification of the October monthly security bulletin.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/06/2011
Continuing a 2011 trend of decreasing market share, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, while still leading the pack, fell to 54.39 percent of all desktop Internet users.
Apple announced Wednesday afternoon that Steve Jobs has passed away.
- By Redmondmag.com Editors
- 10/05/2011
A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have come up with a new mapping procedure to quantify cyber threats.
- By William Jackson
- 10/04/2011
The Government Accountability Office has released a report showing that security incidents at 24 federal agencies have increased 650 percent during the last five years.
- By Alice Lipowicz
- 10/04/2011
SharePoint largely has been meeting IT and business management expectations in organizations, according to a new survey by Forrester Research.
Microsoft opened Day 1 of its SharePoint 2011 conference taking place in Anaheim, Calif. this week by talking about the what's coming next -- including a "major update" for SharePoint Online.