With billionaire investor Carl Icahn's consortium of investors looking to take over Yahoo's board at its upcoming shareholder meeting, Yahoo has bought itself more time by pushing back the meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July."
Microsoft's announcement that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer raises the question: What's the status of SQL Server 2008?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/22/2008
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn continues to push for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo -- whether or not Redmond wants to.
Microsoft has begun enlisting the support of beta testers for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.
Microsoft released High Performance Computing Server 2008 (HPC Server 2008) Beta 2, the next-generation version of Compute Cluster Server 2003.
Stealing some thunder from Citrix's recent XenDesktop unveiling, VMware has made several announcements aimed at strengthening partnerships with thin client suppliers.
Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007.
Microsoft's announcement that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer raises the question: What's the status of SQL Server 2008?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/21/2008
Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo are back on the table again, but maybe not about the acquisition bid.
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2008
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
Cross-platform developers can now download the source code for Moonlight, the open source project chartered with building a Silverlight runtime for Linux.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/19/2008
MCP exam takers who want to participate in the program have until the end of May to register into the program and register for an exam.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2008
The Bush administration's economic-stimulus tax rebate program, under which the Internal Revenue Service is issuing taxpayers payments of as much as $1,200, has given rise to a new wave of phishing scams, according to a new FBI notice.
- By Wilson P. Dizard III
- 05/15/2008
Evans Data research indicates only eight percent of developers in North America are writing applications for Vista, even though the OS has been live for 15 months.
A former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle that can happen on computers with AMD processors
Microsoft last week released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday released Service Pack 1 for Office 2008 for Mac, the first major update to what the company called its most successful Mac Office launch in 19 years (in terms of sales volume).
Corporate raider Carl Icahn plans to replace Yahoo's entire 10-member board with the intention of compelling a sale of the company to Microsoft, according to an open letter sent today to Yahoo's Chairman Roy Bostock.
Microsoft Office 2007 users will be able to get a new service pack delivered automatically via Microsoft Update as early as mid-next month.