Critics asserting that Windows Live OneCare didn't succeed on its own have got it wrong, according to Microsoft's chief security advisor for the EMEA region.
Out of a need to protect new video game releases came an anti-tamper application that's now making its way into the enterprise.
Just days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's declaration that Redmond was "done with all of these [acquisition] discussions with Yahoo," one newspaper is reporting that a deal is in the works.
Microsoft is seeing an increase in the number of malware attacks exploiting a security hole supposedly addressed by a recent patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/26/2008
The latest iteration of the Green500 list was released at the SC08 supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/24/2008
Windows Vista may have a potential buffer-overflow security problem, according to researchers at Innsbruck, Austria-based enterprise security firm Phion.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 apparently will have its product debut some time next year, according to an announcement released on Wednesday by the company.
Microsoft is hiring a member of Yahoo's search team who is considered to be a key engineering asset.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 apparently will have its product debut some time next year, according to an announcement by the company.
Experts in Windows Forms development have their own exam going into beta next week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/20/2008
Redmond is rolling out a free anti-virus software program for consumers that will compete with products made by Symantec and McAfee.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/19/2008
Microsoft held its Shareholder meeting for 2008 on Wednesday, and shareholders approved all nine board-member nominees on the proxy slate.
Microsoft today previewed the ability to centrally manage applications and resources in the planned upgrade of SQL Server, code-named "Kilimanjaro."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/19/2008
Microsoft and Novell issued an announcement on Tuesday marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial agreement surrounding Linux patents.
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