Microsoft plans to eventually discontinue offering its standalone versions of FAST enterprise search products for Linux and Unix.
IT organizations are budgeting to give employees a small pay increase in 2010, according to a recent report.
- By Anne Watkins
- 02/05/2010
Academic researchers can now apply for free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud services.
With a sharp decline in the global equity markets over the past month, economic uncertainty continues to plague IT spending.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/05/2010
Microsoft today signaled that a hefty batch of security fixes will arrive on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/04/2010
Microsoft released yet another security advisory for Internet Explorer on Wednesday, mostly applying to Windows XP users.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/04/2010
Microsoft Office 2010 reached the release candidate milestone this week, bringing the development process one step closer to the product's planned June release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/04/2010
Microsoft described changes to its Volume Licensing Service Center in a Webcast on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/03/2010
Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Microsoft's Windows platform strategy, will leave Microsoft in a few weeks.
Microsoft is responding to complaints from some Windows 7 users about a message that suggests impending battery failure when using a laptop.
A security engineer who reverse-engineered the family of chips from Infineon showed a Black Hat audience how he cracked the chip and accessed its data.
- By William Jackson
- 02/03/2010
IT shops should assess their environments before upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2010, according to a Forrester Research report published last week.
VMware last week teamed up with Cisco and NetApp to promote a virtualized datacenter offering geared toward shared or public cloud environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/02/2010
Support for Internet Explorer 6 appears to be dwindling after Microsoft's Web browser was exploited for well-publicized attacks on Google and other companies.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/02/2010
Spyrus Inc. plans to release a portable USB device marketed as "secure Windows on a stick."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/02/2010
Microsoft on Friday described what it has been doing to improve software interoperability.
Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure cloud services are now generally available, ending the free test period.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
It remains to be seen whether the slate-based iPad will help or hurt the prospects of PC-based alternatives with a similar form factor.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
President Obama on has requested $79.4 billion in spending on IT projects for fiscal 2011.
- By Ben Bain, Doug Beizer, Alice Lipowicz, Matthew Weigelt
- 02/01/2010
Microsoft this week issued four specialized fixes for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 products.