Microsoft has launched its Magellan Learning Suite, a package of software solutions and services designed to support a portable computer called Magellan, a low-cost system based on Intel's Classmate PC targeted toward elementary and middle school students.
Microsoft has been talking about future changes to Windows Vista's most maligned feature, User Account Control (UAC).
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/13/2008
New security appliance gives DBAs a leg up on flaws and vulnerabilities lurking in corporate database management systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/13/2008
Yahoo's stock plunge has some reflecting to a time when Microsoft had initiated an unsolicited takeover bid for the online advertising company.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/10/2008
As Microsoft readies pre-release bits for its Professional Developers Conference later this month, the company's Connected Services division today announced key components of its "Oslo" modeling platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/10/2008
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates has been supplanted as the world's richest man, according to a revised Forbes Magazine ranking, using October 1 data.
IBM expects to announce some pretty sweet news in a sour economy when it details its third-quarter 2008 earnings on Oct. 16.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/09/2008
What a difference a little money makes -- and it's nearly $7 billion in the case of New York-based chipmaker AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), which unveiled a major investment and restructuring deal on Tuesday.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/09/2008
Microsoft's October patch release cycle promises to be a busy one as Redmond announced plans to roll out 11 security bulletins in its Tuesday security release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/09/2008
Military information technology folks wondering if their use of Apache, Perl, Linux and other open source software is copacetic with the brass will soon get some answers from the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/08/2008
Analyst firm Gartner put Microsoft at the top of its "leaders" category for information access technology, which includes enterprise search.
Microsoft Springboard Virtual Roundtable examined Vista performance, fielding technical views from panelists that had actually carried out system upgrades.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/08/2008
In a survey of CIOs, network admin skills -- particularly, expertise with Cisco, Nortel and other networking technologies -- continue to be in strong demand.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/07/2008
A new study from Gartner concludes that the WLANs of today comprise a "significant vulnerability" for enterprise IT organizations.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/07/2008
Migration to virtualization won't be the quick transition that some technology evangelists have predicted, according to recent surveys by two IT security companies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/07/2008
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer denied knowing the details of "Vista Capable," a Microsoft hardware certification and Vista marketing campaign.
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates expressed confidence in the current economic system, despite plunging market values, in a TV interview broadcast on Sunday.
Microsoft kicked off its BI Conference this week in Seattle with news that it's planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of SQL Server database.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/06/2008
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/03/2008
Rumors that Microsoft initiated a hiring freeze are not true, according to Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos, who denied it in accounts published on Friday.