Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its cloud-based suite of applications has passed muster for government use per FISMA standards.
Microsoft and Nokia announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement on Windows Phone production, confirming their February strategic agreement.
Amazon Web Services suffered outages that it attributed to latency and connectivity issues affecting its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/21/2011
ARM, maker of tablet and smartphone processor architectures, plans to release its Cortex-A15 system-on-chip at the end of 2012.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 04/21/2011
Definitely check out the first item, where ADTMag.com's David Ramel points out some secret Easter eggs in well-known software programs.
The U.S. Department of Justice today acknowledged a positive response from a Microsoft-supported holding company that is looking to buy patents held by Novell Inc.
According to an Oak Ridge National Laboratory spokeswoman, a "very sophisticated" piece of malware apparently designed to steal technical information from the Energy Department lab's network caused laboratory officials to shut down its e-mail and Internet access last week.
- By William Jackson
- 04/20/2011
Microsoft assembled a panel of MVPs, product managers and consultants on Monday to prod those still stuck on Windows XP to move to Windows 7.
Microsoft announced a licensing change late last week that may make it easier for PowerShell to be devised for use on platforms other than Windows.
Microsoft got its day in court before eight U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday.
Microsoft's MIX 11 fanfare last week included the new IE 10 platform preview, but no mention was made at that time that it won't run on Windows Vista.
Microsoft kicked off the week by releasing the public beta of Office 365 today. The new offering is the company's cloud-based productivity suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2011
Software licensing and pricing could become more customer friendly if some trends take hold, according to an April Forrester Research report.
The Windows Intune beta will expire on Monday, April 18, Microsoft warned today.
The U.S. General Services Administration issued a statement suggesting that Google Apps for Government is FISMA certified, but that it was reviewing some "additional controls."
- By Kevin McCaney
- 04/14/2011
Individuals responsible for the Coreflood botnet and its malware face legal scrutiny after the U.S. government announced lawsuits on Wednesday.
Microsoft released two security advisories that included solutions yesterday as part of its massive April security update.
I bet you can't guess the theme of this week's IT Fun (hint: there isn't one)!
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a major tools update to come for Windows Phone "Mango," plus other developer news, at its MIX 11 event.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/13/2011
Microsoft on Tuesday released its first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, the company's standalone server virtualization solution.