Microsoft unveiled a point-of-sales solution for midmarket retailers on Monday as part of its Dynamics product line.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/03/2009
Microsoft last week showed its appreciation to beta testers of Windows 7 by extending free copies to them -- well, not all of them.
Cloud computing promises cost savings, increased flexibility and improved remote access to resources, but these advantages come at a cost.
- By William Jackson
- 08/03/2009
Microsoft changed its plans about issuing a special European version of Windows 7 that would lack Internet Explorer, according to a company announcement.
The Security Essentials beta led readers to offer plenty of criticism, but most is directed at third-party anti-virus vendors, not at Microsoft.
Linux developer Red Hat believes open source is the future of virtualization, but are its new platform and hypervisor too late?
When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/31/2009
Microsoft executives on Thursday explained the company's business and prospects at the 2009 Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond, Wash.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the promotion of Brad Anderson, an executive who helped foster various server management products in the Microsoft System Center product line.
Microsoft and Yahoo finally consummated an Internet search advertising-text deal after almost two years of contentious wooing.
Microsoft is taking aim at U.K.-based Sage Software in an attempt to grab a greater stake in the enterprise resource planning software market.
Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
The Black Hat security conference continues this week in Las Vegas and Microsoft is once again rallying its industry allies, and even its competitors, to a common cause.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/27/2009
Microsoft issued a proposal last week that attempts to address European Commission concerns about its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
Microsoft's financials continued to decline, with the company reporting $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter -- a 17 percent decrease compared with last year's fourth quarter.
Microsoft appears to be broadening the market for its Windows Home Server (WHS) product to the small office/home office space.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/23/2009
U.S. authorities have not determined who was behind the recent cyber attacks that temporarily knocked some federal Web sites offline.
Microsoft popped the champagne corks in Redmond today by announcing that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have both reached the "release to manufacturing" stage.
Open source software continues to make inroads into the federal government, and a new organization to promote open source applications has been established.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 07/22/2009
How should IT shops plan now that Microsoft has made noise about its latest productivity suite, Office 2010?
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/22/2009