A new report from security consultancy AppRiver confirms what many of us have long expected: Spammers are becoming both savvier and sneakier.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/20/2009
Gartner's fourth-quarter 2008 report on the PC market, announced last week, reported shrinking global and U.S. sales for the top computer makers.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/19/2009
Microsoft is reorganizing two of its online teams -- Live Mesh and Live Services -- by centralizing them under a Windows segment, according to reports from Mary-Jo Foley and Todd Bishop published on Friday.
Netezza last week appeared to close the loop on one of its perceived competitive shortcomings when it unveiled a new interoperability strategy for Microsoft's business intelligence platform
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/16/2009
Microsoft announced a client update to the beta version of Live Mesh on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/16/2009
The European Commission (EC) issued a "Statement of Objections" against Microsoft's practice of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
Google on Wednesday launched a beefed-up Google Apps reseller program for the enterprise, opening the program beyond its initial 50 core team members
- By Jim Barthold
- 01/16/2009
Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/16/2009
Pink slips at the world's largest software provider may become a reality soon, according to several reports published this week, citing unnamed sources.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/15/2009
Pink slips at the world's largest software provider may become a reality soon, according to several reports published this week, citing unnamed sources.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/15/2009
Microsoft released a beta of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), which lets users run older OSes and applications on newer Windows systems.
Datacenter managers in both the public and private sectors report being caught between increasing demands for performance and shrinking budgets, according to a Symantec study.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 01/14/2009
Users of Windows Server service that haven't patched a previously disclosed worm hole (MS08-067) are taking a big risk.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/14/2009
Microsoft has begun ramping up the dialog about its upcoming Exchange 14 mail server solution, which is slated to become the successor to Exchange Server 2007.
Microsoft published an update to a Windows Media Player patch on Tuesday, the same day as its January general security update release.
- By James LaTour
- 01/13/2009
When the going gets tough, it's the jobs that get going -- increasingly overseas.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/13/2009
As expected, it's a one-patch Tuesday, with a single item deemed "critical" in Microsoft's first security update for the year.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/13/2009
Microsoft released Windows 7 Beta tools that let system administrators perform remote management of Windows servers from their desktop PCs.
Microsoft extended the general availability of its free Windows 7 Beta trial offer through Jan. 24 and removed the cap on the number of downloads within that time.
New global research forecasts a swift rise in development plans for Software as a Service applications in the next 12 months.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/12/2009