Gartner on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire Burton Group, a smaller but well-regarded IT research and advisory services firm, for $56 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/05/2010
Microsoft opened the new year with marketing push designed to wean small-to-medium orgs off older Windows and Office products.
Windows 7 has the potential to become a security target in 2010, according to researchers, although it's held up so far.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/04/2010
Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling its Microsoft Word software starting Jan. 11.
Microsoft provided more details about its settlement with the EC, particularly with regard to interoperability agreements
Microsoft says it needs more time to address concerns with virtual memory usage in its next-generation integrated development environment.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/18/2009
Microsoft described a security feature in Office 2010 designed to block malware associated with older Office binary file formats.
HP for the first time is enabling infrastructure and application provisioning services to third-party cloud providers, initially Amazon's EC2.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
Microsoft announced last week that it acquired Opalis Software for an undisclosed amount.
The European Commission on Wednesday ended its antitrust suit against Microsoft, accepting Redmond's agreement to allow users the choice of making any browser their default Web interface.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/16/2009
Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that one of its software vendors copied code from a microblogging application called Plurk.
A "bug for all seasons" looks to be the legacy carved out for Adobe Systems as 2009 winds to a close.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/15/2009
Microsoft issued hotfixes on Friday to address problems some users were having with Microsoft Office 2003 files.
Microsoft formed a new organization within its Server and Tools Business last week called the Server and Cloud Division (SCD).
- By Anne Watkins
- 12/14/2009
Amazon has launched the beta for Spot Instances, which lets developers and customers bid for unused capacity on Amazon's EC2 service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/14/2009
Google is reportedly considering offering its own mobile phone based on the Android operating system as early as next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/14/2009
In its quarterly tracker of hardcopy peripherals, IDC trumpeted the sector's 11.6 percent sequential growth in shipments for Q3 compared to Q2 as good news.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/14/2009
Looking to extend its presence in the growing field of health care IT, Microsoft Thursday said it will acquire Sentillion Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/11/2009
While social networking has opened new possibilities for communicating over the Internet, it also gives hackers more vectors through which to attack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/11/2009