Microsoft exec Stephen Elop announced hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint, which are now available to organizations of all sizes in the U.S. market
Three companies are seeking indemnification from Microsoft after being sued for using technology associated with Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform.
Court documents may contain a "smoking gun" reference to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's participation in a crucial decision to downgrade capabilities needed to gain Windows Vista Capable certification in new PCs.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/17/2008
Netbooks and mobile computers will soon be able to run the Ubuntu operating system with additional energy efficiency.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/17/2008
Microsoft has opened another consumer-oriented electronic software distribution (ESD) point, this time serving U.S. customers.
Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/14/2008
Microsoft's Office Web applications, announced late last month at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, will work on "multiple platforms" including Apple's iPhone, according to a Microsoft Channel 10 blog.
Microsoft has come clean and confirmed that it took seven years to deliver its Server Message Block (SMB) fix.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2008
Advanced Micro Devices will release the next generation of quad-core Opteron processors, a line formerly code-named "Shanghai," by the end of the year, according to Steve Demski, an AMD product and marketing manager.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/13/2008
Right on the heels of one .NET exam being released to beta testing, Microsoft has released another.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/13/2008
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has upgraded its Cray XT-based Jaguar supercomputer, putting the machine in the running as the world's fastest supercomputer.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/13/2008
Microsoft plans to roll out updates to its Windows Live services and Windows Live Essentials offerings, which are aimed at consumer users.
Despite a troublesome economy, IT staff and executive positions are safe for now, according to a market study released on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/12/2008
Microsoft executive David Treadwell today provided a few more details about the company's Azure Services Platform in a Webinar aimed at the investment community.
It has taken years and a few concept findings by hackers for Microsoft to finally patch its Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability, but the point is that it's finally done, security experts say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/12/2008
Parallels has released Parallels Desktop 4.0, an update to the company's desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X.
Redmond rolled out two patches on Tuesday -- one deemed "critical" and one "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/11/2008
Security administrators faced a familiar if uncomfortable position: Just one day after Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to fix vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows, exploit code appeared in the wild.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008
Microsoft has developed four demonstration applications that showcase its Live Mesh cloud-based data synchronization service, according to a report issued on Tuesday by veteran Microsoft watcher, Mary-Jo Foley.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008