A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for Novell Inc. to sue Microsoft for unfair competition in the office productivity software market.
Intel unveiled microprocessor chip improvements on Wednesday, claiming that a new architecture will lead to faster chips with reduced power use.
Microsoft fielded some questions on Monday in a Webinar on Internet Explorer 9, focusing on what IT managers should know about the new Web browser.
VMware restored service and apologized for two outages last week that affected some users of its relatively new Cloud Foundry service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
Microsoft plans to consolidate many moving parts in its System Center 2012 products this year -- here's your guide to it all.
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's .NET platform head, will leave that post to run a new Azure Application Platform team as part of a May reorg, Microsoft confirmed today.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/02/2011
Controversy over the control of IPv4 numbers was somewhat diffused this month after Microsoft entered into a legacy agreement with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) over IPv4 numbers purchased from Nortel.
- By William Jackson
- 05/02/2011
Microsoft today announced that the release candidate version (RC) of its Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) solution is now available for download.
Windows 8 might be released in 2013, according to a Directions on Microsoft analyst.
Amazon Web Services on Friday issued an apology for an outage that left certain customer sites down for days, causing permanent data loss in some cases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/29/2011
Microsoft reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $16.4 billion today, led by gains from its Office, Xbox and Kinect products.
With last week's outage of Amazon Web Services and the ongoing PlayStation Network issues, you're lucky I could find links that actually work for this edition.
In the next step in the joint action between the FBI and the Department of Justice to take down the international Coreflood botnet ring, federal authorities will begin contacting some infected users to manually remove the botnet software.
Barnes & Noble rolled out its legal defense brief on Monday, rebutting all of Microsoft's patent infringement claims.
IT organizations appear to be dragging their feet on migrating to Window 7, according to a recent poll by Unisys Corp.
Google's Apps for Business is changing its terms of service by requiring any organization of 10 or more to subscribe to its paid service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
Strictly speaking, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can't perform server virtualization using Intel's new second-generation Core vPro processors.
Sony finally released a statement about the outage of its PlayStation Network since April 20, and it also confirmed a mass theft of customer data.
Microsoft indicated late last week that it has sold more than 350 million Windows 7 licenses.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2011
Microsoft is gaining the upper hand over problems in Internet Explorer 9 traced to browser add-ons, the company announced today.