Eight identity management products from seven vendors have earned interoperability certification for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) in this summer's round of interoperability testing.
- By William Jackson
- 09/30/2009
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote talk at a Microsoft event called "The New Efficiency" on Tuesday.
Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond's free consumer security software for PCs, will be available for download by the general public on Tuesday.
Networking threats are migrating from the network perimeter to the interior and up the networking stack, often making older firewall technologies and policies inadequate.
- By William Jackson
- 09/28/2009
IBM rolled out a free toolkit to help IT pros migrate their infrastructure to IBM products and use Microsoft's virtualization technology to consolidate servers.
Microsoft on Friday announced that Release Candidate 0 of Forefront Unified Access Gateway is now available for testing.
Microsoft released a minor update this week for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that addresses compatibility issues for some applications.
If the latest semiannual round of security advisories from Cisco are any indication, DoS attacks continue to be a serious -- and largely unsolvable -- problem for networks.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/25/2009
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
Lawyers for Microsoft and Toronto-based i4i LP concluded oral arguments before the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Microsoft bolstered its Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) product by acquiring intellectual properties (IP) from three of its partners.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/23/2009
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.