The telecom industry has joined the effort to forge interoperability among cloud providers by forming a consortium backed by some key cloud providers, including Microsoft and IBM.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/10/2009
Microsoft recently declared a Consumer Action Day, marking the occasion by detailing some of the latest steps and statistics in its ongoing anti-piracy campaign.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2009
According to the latest tallies from Gartner and IDC, the Unix market continues to contract dramatically.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/10/2009
A Microsoft corporate vice president talked about the company's business prospects, including competition with Google, at a Barclays event on Tuesday.
The security community needs to address issues that have been neglected in the past few years, according to security experts at the Government Technology Research Alliance Council.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/08/2009
If recent market research is any indication, computing in the clouds could achieve a breakthrough of sorts in 2010.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/08/2009
As expected, the last Windows Security Update of 2009 will include six security bulletins -- three dubbed "critical" and three labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/08/2009
Microsoft on Monday released betas of two new tools to help IT organizations with Office 2010 migrations.
Microsoft is warning that the extended support phase will end next year for some of its older Windows operating systems.
Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the legal details of their proposed search-advertising deal.
There's no rest for the weary, as Microsoft is planning to release six security bulletins for this coming Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2009
Security firm Prevx apologized for suggesting that Microsoft's November security patch might cause "black screens" in Windows-based machines.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2009
Intel pushed the outer limits of computing by unveiling a new experimental processor it described as a "single-chip cloud computer."
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/04/2009
Microsoft plans to update Exchange Server 2007 by issuing a new service pack late next year, enabling the mail server to run on Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft announced enhancements to its Bing Internet search service on Wednesday, including a new Bing Maps beta.
Security is an economic issue that the government needs to address by providing economic incentives to organizations rather than issuing regulatory mandates.
- By William Jackson
- 12/03/2009
A Microsoft executive fielded questions about the company's Internet search-advertising business at Credit Suisse's Technology Conference on Tuesday.
A recent McAfee study on cyber crime and cyber warfare concluded that the world's information infrastructures are increasingly becoming theaters of war.
- By William Jackson
- 12/02/2009
Microsoft is planning to rev up the mobility market under its "Windows phone" brand.
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/01/2009
A top Microsoft official answered questions about the state of IT spending and Microsoft's product offerings at the Nasdaq OMX 23rd Investor Program on Tuesday.