Microsoft last week filed a civil lawsuit against five companies for allegedly spreading malicious online advertising.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/22/2009
Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston on Tuesday.
In a surprise announcement Monday, Dell Inc. said it plans to purchase Perot Systems Corp. for approximately $3.9 billion.
- By David Hubler
- 09/22/2009
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech is looking to shift unemployed technology professionals into teaching careers.
Microsoft is instituting a "say-on-pay" policy that will let its shareholders vote on compensation for Microsoft's senior executives.
Microsoft last week announced a number of updates to its System Center line of server management products.
PC shipments took a dive in the second quarter, although they were steadied to a degree by consumer spending on portable PCs, according to an IDC report.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/21/2009
With relatively few attendees and even fewer big announcements, VMware's annual show left just one lasting impression: fear of Microsoft.
With VMware and Google threatening Microsoft's traditional stronghold, Redmond must battle on two new fronts while still keeping Windows on top of its game.
Google's acquisition of open source security technology firm reCaptcha could help the search giant's Internet security, except against persistent hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/18/2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced that it had commenced an invitation-only public technical preview of Microsoft Office Web Apps.
The next generation of Internet protocols has some security features built into it, but IPv6 is not inherently more secure than the current IPv4 now in use.
- By William Jackson
- 09/17/2009
Microsoft's chief financial officer for the Online Services Division fielded questions at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Google has announced that it will soon offer a set of cloud services to government through the Apps.gov cloud computing storefront.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/16/2009
Hackers are exploiting unpatched applications on Web servers and client computers to infect entire networks, according to report released Tuesday.
- By William Jackson
- 09/16/2009
The Microsoft Project Conference 2009 event kicked off in Phoenix on Wednesday with new details about the next generation of Microsoft's software products for project planning.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/16/2009
Microsoft put out the word on Monday that IT organizations can start deploying Windows 7 now, citing the cost benefits of doing so.
Microsoft executive Charles Songhurst answered questions on Microsoft's business strategy at the Jefferies Annual Technology Conference in New York on Tuesday.
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2009 will get an R2 upgrade next month, according to an announcement by Microsoft on Monday.
Tests conducted by Microsoft show that upgrades from Vista to Windows 7 can, in certain situations, take more than 20 hours.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 09/14/2009