Microsoft this week disclosed that its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) had three service outages that affected BPOS customers in North America in August and September.
A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department's primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according to a recent inspector general's report.
- By William Jackson
- 09/10/2010
Microsoft today released a beta of its upcoming customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
Citrix Systems is on the move yet again, virtually speaking, having formed a desktop virtualization partnership with Cisco Systems.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/09/2010
A fierce mobile OS competition will start leveling the field in the next four years, the research firm predicts.
For the second month in a row, Microsoft will be rolling out a heavier than usual patch load of nine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2010
Microsoft continued to dribble out information about the forthcoming Office for Mac 2011 product, announcing four new features on Wednesday.
Microsoft last week released the latest version of a free tool designed to help ward off attacks to legacy software.
Microsoft last week described a different way to use desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.
Oracle has hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd as co-president.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/07/2010
In the latest indicator that the slowing economy is putting a dent in PC growth, market researcher IDC has lowered its sales forecast for the year, despite a robust first half.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/04/2010
Oh no, three days to kill before the next work week.
Microsoft today announced that its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been released to hardware manufacturing partners.
Microsoft received a "strong positive" rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.
Microsoft updated its security advisory today concerning a dynamic link library issue and published a "Fix it" solution to help address the problem.
Microsoft is at VMworld in San Francisco this week, but it can't show off its Hyper-V virtualization product because it competes with VMware's products.
In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/31/2010
Microsoft's security team noted late last week that variants of the Alureon rootkit are now capable of infecting 64-bit Windows systems.
Microsoft calls Windows 7 its "fastest selling" operating system, but the new OS may represent increased costs and greater logistical pain for IT shops over the next two years.
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