Windows IT pros may be breathing a sigh of relief that the only fireworks in July occurred on a day off for U.S. workers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/07/2011
Microsoft on Tuesday announced yet another intellectual property deal associated with the use of the Android open source mobile operating system.
Microsoft late last month released the source code for an application it uses to gather Wi-Fi, cell tower and GPS information as part of its Windows Phone 7 location services.
The death of Microsoft's free consumer home power-monitoring service, Hohm, mostly resulted from its organization under the Windows Embedded Business segment, according to one of the developers on the project.
Microsoft today released new information on the Rustock botnet ring, showing decreased infection rates since law enforcement actions took place.
Microsoft today released Windows Thin PC to its volume licensing customers with Software Assurance.
The Toronto-based telecom and networking giant indicated that the winning bidder was a consortium of companies, including Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony.
Microsoft's legal team announced multiple intellectual property licensing deals this week associated with Android mobile OS use.
After previously advising Windows users infected with a new rootkit nicknamed 'Popureb' to completely reinstall the OS, Microsoft yesterday retracted, saying a complete wipe is not necessary.
Internet Explorer 10 platform preview 2 was announced on Wednesday. Microsoft said this preview's main purpose is to demonstarte its HTML 5 test progress so far.
Amazon Web Services today said it is removing the fees for inbound data transfers and lowering outbound data transfer among all its cloud services, including its CloudFront content delivery network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/30/2011
Microsoft today rolled out its "Mango" beta, plus a new software development kit (SDK) beta, for Windows Phone 7 developers.
The Google Apps team took on Office 365 the day before Microsoft had its big cloud launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2011
Google Labs quietly released Swiffy yesterday, a development tool that allows SWF files (used in Flash elements) to be converted to HTML 5.
Microsoft today released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010.
Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets around the world, Microsoft announced on Tuesday at a New York launch event.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/28/2011
Microsoft today chalked up yet another intellectual property win against the Linux-based Android mobile operating system.
Organizations looking to move to Office 365 got some of the finer points discussed during a Thursday Directions on Microsoft talk.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's business practices, an announcement by the company acknowledged today.