At the International Supercomputing Conference being held this week in Germany, Microsoft announced that it will roll out the first release candidate (RC1) of its Windows HPC Server 2008 for high-performance computing in the last week of June.
Just as Microsoft seems to be patching up antitrust relations with the U.S. government, a Chinese newspaper suggested today that the company could be subject to antitrust legal actions in China.
The volunteer-led Mozilla project has released version 3 of the Firefox browser.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/18/2008
Outsourcing "megadeals" appear to be on the wane. According to market watcher Gartner Inc., the number of reported megadeals -- contracts of $1 billion or more awarded to a single vendor -- actually declined last year. Does this mean that outsourcing itself is on the way out?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/17/2008
Computer Economics released a new report characterizing the adoption rate of Windows Vista by businesses as "slow."
Microsoft yesterday kicked off the NXTcomm08 event by showcasing its IPTV telco and service provider offerings.
For over a year now, IBM Corp. has made "greening" a centerpiece of its marketing efforts, kicking off a $1 billion green IT investment last spring called "Project Big Green," touting mainframe-centric greening initiatives and, just recently, trumpeting a new "green" approach to software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/17/2008
The High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N), a Swedish consortium of universities and research centers based out of Umea University, is installing a supercomputer that combines IBM Cell Broadband Engines and Power processors with quad-core Intel Xeon processors running both Windows and Linux in a dual-boot configuration.
Microsoft and 15 partner companies, including Unisys and EDS, announced a new working alliance intent on forging technology architecture for the heath and human services (HHS) market.
Novell announced last Wednesday that it has joined Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program.
- By Chris Riedel
- 06/16/2008
Microsoft has joined the Open Source Census as a sponsor, according to an announcement issued by OpenLogic, which founded the group.
Microsoft works to correct issue that kept some administrators using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from downloading the latest security updates.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/16/2008
Verizon Business reports that more than half of the data breaches on enterprise systems go undetected and are caused by general negligence and lax security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/13/2008
IT pros wanting to try out the latest Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology can now get the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version via Windows Update.
Researchers have found a pair of vulnerabilities in version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol that could allow attackers to gather system data or even change network equipment configurations, according to an advisory issued by Cisco Systems earlier this week.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/13/2008
Just hours after announcing that talks with Microsoft had ended without a deal, Yahoo announced an advertising partnership with Google.
Rumors that Intel is not releasing Universal Serial Bus 3.0 specification to its technology partners in a timely manner have prompted a rebuttal.
Yahoo today said its talks with Microsoft focusing on acquiring all or part of the company are officially over -- a position that Microsoft appears to be at least partially disputing.
Microsoft pointed to gains in the high-performance computing (HPC) market as it readies the release of its HPC Server 2008 for later this year.
A speech given yesterday by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition, skewered Microsoft without mentioning the company by name.