It's only a matter of time before most companies make the move to Windows 7, especially with XP losing support in a few years.
Scheduled for release in the second half of 2011, Microsoft's Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was the focus of a session at Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Ga.
According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released today, customer satisfactionfor Microsoft software has reached an all-time high of 78 on the 100-point scale.
The U.S. Government's guidelines for interagency and international cooperation to establish norms for responsible behavior in cyberspace, called International Strategy for Cyberspace, was released on Monday.
- By William Jackson
- 05/17/2011
Microsoft took the opportunity at Tech-Ed 2011, currently underway in Atlanta, Ga., to announce new improvements to Exchange 2010 that will avoid supported scenarios when running the software in a virtualized environment.
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will be receiving their first service pack (SP1) by the end of June, Microsoft announced today at the Tech-Ed 2011 conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/17/2011
During Microsoft's keynote at Tech-Ed North America conference on Monday, the company focused on the cloud and opened the door for vendors to showcase devices designed to manage applications and services in a hybrid environment.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/16/2011
Bloomberg News is reporting this morning that the hackers who attacked Sony's PlayStation Network -- which was down for almost a month -- used Amazon's cloud service to stage their attacks.
Microsoft announced today that the company has added support for a Linux distribution to Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/16/2011
Virtualization and cloud provider VMware this morning announced that it's buying Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers.
Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference for IT pros in Atlanta Monday morning highlighted the company's plans for Windows Phone 7, System Center 2012 and Visual Studio, among other products.
IT organizations are considering alternatives to Microsoft Office, but it's no real competition, a new Forrester Research report indicates.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced that a final legal judgment against Microsoft, rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns, expired on May 12.
Microsoft's cloud-based Business Productivity Online Suite network has undergone multiple outages over the past few days, according to complaints from customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/12/2011
Most business networks are not ready for the transition to IPv6, according to a poll conducted by Ipswitch Inc.
Google today announced "Chromebooks," the new name for forthcoming notebook devices that will run its Chrome OS operating system.
Google is speaking out after Monday's news that a French security firm had found a zero-day exploit in Chrome's code.
Microsoft responded to a request from the U.S. House of Representatives to explain how Windows Phone 7-based mobile phones store user location data.
Microsoft's May patch arrived as expected, with just two security bulletins, one deemed "critical" and one considered "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/10/2011
Taking time to comment on Microsoft’s pending deal to purchase Skype, today CEO Steve Ballmer discussed how this purchase is a major milestone to extend cross-platform communications across PCs, mobile devices and home entertainment systems.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/10/2011