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
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.