In the biggest acquisition in history, Google announced today that it will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for a cash total of $12.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/15/2011
While the overall smartphone market saw gains in the second quarter of 2011, Microsoft's mobile offering declined in market share.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2011
Open source code apparently isn't altogether open, and that fact is playing out in a legal dispute over Android.
Microsoft released a report this month updating the progress of the Microsoft Security Response Center in ensuring software security.
A top executive at Motorola suggested on Tuesday that the company is open to a deal with Microsoft on Windows.
According to a recent Gartner projection, Windows 7 will be on 42 percent of all PCs at the beginning of 2012.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/10/2011
The August patch is a bulky one as Microsoft released 13 fixes today.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2011
A Windows-based security system used by the government is under fire by the GAO for its unreliability.
- By William Jackson
- 08/09/2011
Lighting seemed to strike twice on Sunday, hitting apparently separate cloud datacenters in Dublin, Ireland, run by Amazon and Microsoft.
Microsoft today announced an update to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse with other related news, including planned Hadoop support.
To develop secure mobile apps, an investment in time to apply the correct testing and auditing techniques is worth the effort.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 08/08/2011
A key figure in Microsoft's Windows Phone segment and 21-year Microsoft veteran, Charlie Kindel has announced his departure to found his own company.
A security researcher reported a flaw in advanced persistent threat attempts used to steal intellectual property in recent high-profile breaches.
- By William Jackson
- 08/05/2011
A single command and control server conducted attacks against corporations and government agencies over the last five years.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 08/05/2011
Microsoft late last week issued a fix to address Office 2010 Service Pack 1 installation failures that some users have experienced.
Security researcher Tarjei Mandt has found dozens of vulnerabilities in the graphics control component of Windows Kernel.
- By William Jackson
- 08/05/2011
The legal "knife fight" over patents and Android use continues, with two Microsoft executives contesting complaints by Google.
VMware said it is changing its licensing model for vSphere 5 in response to negative feedback from customers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2011
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will be replaced by former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel.
- By Alice Lipowicz
- 08/04/2011
Researchers who develop new security technologies to protect Windows against exploits can be up to $200,000 richer, thanks to a BlueHat Prize contest announced by Microsoft.