Microsoft has begun aggressively reaching out to the channel to prepare for the release of Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/04/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its "launch experience" of Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) Release 2, a unified communications (UC) product first unveiled in October.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/03/2009
The source code for Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now available under an open license.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2009
Microsoft described its product lineup plans for its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system launch, expected in early 2010 or possibly earlier.
Microsoft has released Semblio SDK version 1, a new tool for education developers that's designed to aid in the creation of interactive learning materials.
Windows XP powers "71 percent of PCs within North American and European enterprises," according to a report published last week by Forrester Research.
An international team of computer scientists has demonstrated in the lab that it is possible for overlapping Wi-Fi networks in densely populated areas to support the rapid spread of malicious code that could infect an entire city in a matter of weeks.
- By William Jackson
- 02/02/2009
Xenocode, the Seattle-based maker of virtualization tools, today released the latest version of its Virtual Application Studio, a developer-focused authoring environment for virtualizing existing Windows-based applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/02/2009
Insider threats to data security via theft or sabotage are sure to rise, especially as companies increase employee layoffs during a bad economy.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/02/2009
Thus far, Vista's successor is looking better than its maligned predecessor.
V.i. Labs' anti-piracy application can be as relevant to IT as it is to ISVs.
HP's new line of touch-screen desktops could be the beginning of the end for the mouse.
Though Microsoft may have gotten ahead of the browser-security curve with RC1 of IE 8, which includes a feature that helps protect against clickjacking attacks, recent developments suggest that other browsers haven't quite caught up yet.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/30/2009
Users testing Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta have been asking Microsoft when it will release the final product, but Microsoft isn't saying right now, according to a Windows 7 team blog posted on Friday.
Microsoft has advanced to the next testing phase by issuing Release Candidate "Escrow"-build versions of Service Pack 2.
A dispute with the European Union might change how Microsoft distributes its software in the region.
Microsoft's rollout of Windows 7 Beta, the company's newest operating system, has resulted in a stepped-up workload for the Department of Justice effort overseeing Microsoft's compliance with a past federal court antitrust ruling.
For the second time in as many weeks, after a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/27/2009
Many observers with a vested interest in regulatory requirements say tighter compliance is inevitable.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/27/2009
Unified communications (UC) could carry a spark through an increasingly dimming economic landscape if trends in an industry-conducted poll hold true.
- By Jim Barthold
- 01/27/2009