Citrix and Microsoft, already close collaborators on many
virtualization-based initiatives, ratcheted up their relationship Monday with
the announcement of Citrix Essentials, a group of technologies calculated to
shoehorn their way into the enterprise datacenters now dominated by VMware.
VMLogix has partnered with Citrix to shore up its brand-new offering, adding lab management and automation capabilities to Citrix Essentials.
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Another vendor has thrown its hat into the enterprise virtualization ring. This one is red.
Earlier this month, BeyondTrust released a report on security threats to IT shops running Microsoft software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/23/2009
Exploits for a serious cache-poisoning vulnerability discovered in the DNS last year have begun to appear in the wild, and they have made security researcher Dan Kaminsky a believer in DNS Security Extensions.
- By William Jackson
- 02/20/2009
A Norwegian Web portal has begun a campaign to kill the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser.
KDE (K Desktop Environment), based on the Qt Framework, is a desktop solution for UNIX environments.
Microsoft earlier this month began advocating for greater broadband access in a policy blog, with a particular focus on a piece of spectrum called "white spaces."
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/19/2009
Microsoft plans to discontinue an all-in-one consumer software offering called Microsoft Equipt after April 30.
Microsoft offers discounts on exams and other incentives to visit your local MCPLS center.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/19/2009
Microsoft got a favorable court ruling on Wednesday in an ongoing lawsuit against its past Vista Capable marketing practices.
Microsoft changed course on its "custom support" policy by holding down a routine price increase this year.
ConverterTechnology upgraded its solution designed to ease migrations to Microsoft Office 2007.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/18/2009
Trend Micro said hackers are targeting a hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was addressed in Microsoft's February security patch issued last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2009
Microsoft plans to give the Windows Mobile a facelift which includes the launch of a Web-based sync service and a developer site.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/17/2009
Microsoft and Red Hat inked a deal to ensure that Windows operating systems and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OSes can run as virtual machines on each other's platforms.
The next front in the struggle to make IT greener will unfold at your fingertips, on the ubiquitous end user desktop.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/17/2009
Microsoft will release the second CTP of its Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint in the coming weeks, a company official said on Friday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/13/2009
Problems with the Conficker worm have become so widespread that Microsoft is putting up $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of the worm's author.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2009