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
The U.S. Census Bureau is deploying the Windows Mobile operating system on 140,000 PDAs being used for the 2010 census.
Microsoft admitted on Monday that some users of Internet Explorer 8 may perceive its newest Web browser as sluggish.
Security software specialist Prevx reported the theft of almost 90,000 FTP credentials from a laundry list of prominent corporate sites by a new trojan called Zeus.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit announced this week the release of Service Pack 2 for Mac Office 2008.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
Microsoft has taken the once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community, allowing any commercial or community distribution of Linux to run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft last week released tools for IT pros and partners planning Windows deployments.
Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/20/2009
A group of leading standards development organizations are working jointly to foster common standards for cloud computing and storage.
Microsoft announced product names for its latest claims-based identity management server platform, dropping the "Geneva" code name.
Microsoft rolled out beta 2 of its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) enterprise security solution this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/15/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Volume Licensing program changes that supposedly simplify matters for IT shops, as well as hosting providers.
Microsoft announced pricing for its Windows Azure cloud computing services on Tuesday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
There are no surprises with Redmond's six-patch release on Tuesday, but there is plenty of work to be done, security pros contend.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/14/2009
Microsoft Office 2010 has reached the technical preview testing stage, company officials announced on Monday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
On the eve of its July security patch release, Redmond issued a security advisory on flaws in the ActiveX control function -- the second such advisory in as many weeks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/13/2009