According to a newly released forecast by IDC, the IT segment is projected to grow its spending in public cloud services by a compound annual growth rate of 27.6 percent over the next four years.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced what President Rod Beckstrom called "one of the biggest changes ever to the Domain Name System" at the opening of its 41st annual meeting, being held in Singapore.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2011
Microsoft released a beta of System Center Orchestrator 2012 last week.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission indicated on Friday that Microsoft received U.S. governmental approval to buy Skype, estimated at $8.5 billion.
The use of Windows 7 at companies has more than doubled over the past year, but that hasn't meant correspondingly good news for Microsoft's sliding Internet Explorer browser market share, according to a study published this month by Forrester Research.
In an team up to attack government Web Sites, hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous announced their intent to steal classified information and are encouraging others to follow in their footsteps.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/20/2011
Microsoft this week renamed its Mobile Communications Business (MCB) unit, calling it the "Windows Phone Division."
Microsoft this week announced the availability of a release candidate (RC) version of its Windows Phone 7 Connector for remotely managing and accessing Windows home and small business servers.
Microsoft today pronounced World IPv6 Day to be a "success," reporting no incidents after enabling IPv6 access on some of its Web sites.
The Kinect software development kit (SDK) beta was released by Microsoft today, enabling developers to create Visual Basic, Windows 7 C#,and C++ applications that recognize user input through the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor device.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/16/2011
In honor of the tech company's centennial birthday, there will be no links having to do with IBM in this week's edition.
Microsoft today noted the one-year anniversary of the release of Office 2010.
The hacker group Lulz Security has claimed responsibility for breaking into the U.S. Senate's Web site over the weekend.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 06/15/2011
Tapping unified communications (UC) services over a public cloud sounds like a good idea, but mid-to-large U.S. enterprises remain somewhat reluctant to go that route, according to an industry-commissioned study announced today.
Members of the Apache Software Foundation, as expected, voted last week to accept Oracle's contribution of OpenOffice.org source code for an incubation project.
What some security pros are calling the beginning of a long hot summer for Windows security jumped off in earnest with the June patch that features 16 bulletins -- nine "critical" and seven deemed "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/14/2011
According to market research firm Gartner's newly revised forecast, growth of PC shipments will dip down into the single digits this year due to shifts in consumer spending.
According to Turkey's government news organization, Anadolu Agency, the Turkish authorities had arrested 32 Anonymous members in 12 cities in connection with attacks on government Web sites, Computerworld reported.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/14/2011
Microsoft announced a transition plan this week to move those using various versions of its older Windows Mobile 6 operating systems onto its Windows Live SkyDrive storage service.
Wednesday's World IPv6 Day came and went with only a handful of reported problems. Observers say this is a good sign that the Internet is capable of handling the new protocols.
- By William Jackson
- 06/10/2011