A Microsoft executive involved with the company's Windows Live efforts outlined some of the company's ideas about cloud-based computing and social networking technologies today.
Citing a hefty price tag and other concerns, Microsoft this weekend officially scrapped its plans to acquire Yahoo.
The update introduces a few changes, but no noticeable performance improvements.
- By Peter Varhol
- 05/01/2008
Sanbolic's chairman Bill Stevenson sees clustered file systems as a key technical piece in the virtualization puzzle.
According to a recent survey of 850 "enterprise software customers," Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to be the most important enterprise software trend.
Leaks from unnamed sources to The Wall Street Journal constitute the only "news" so far this week about Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo.
One of Microsoft's retail point-of-sale applications has an incompatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Research firm Gartner is predicting that the current economic downturn in the U.S. will mean more IT and development positions will go overseas.
Microsoft's annual event for Dynamics partners and customers indicates that, after an awkward adolescence, its business-products line has grown up.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- 04/29/2008
Tim O'Reilly woke up his end-of-the-day audience when he took the stage at last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/29/2008
Betas debuted at this week's Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
Whoever becomes our next president will inherit a cyber infrastructure under almost constant attack and at greater risk than eight years ago, and a handful of experts and legislators have come together to ensure that cybersecurity has a high priority in his or her administration.
- By William Jackson
- 04/29/2008
The Response Point phone system takes center stage at Microsoft's annual online-only event for entrepreneurs.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- 04/29/2008
New survey of resellers finds them struggling with poor leads, misaligned vendor marketing and continuing conflict with direct sales teams.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/29/2008
Mr. Gates Goes to Washington
According to a recent study from security and anti-virus specialist Sophos, servers in the U.S. and China host the lion's share of malware-infected Web sites. Meanwhile, Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of this year, according to Sophos -- with no sign of dropping off any time soon.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
According to market watcher Infonetics Research, both Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are tops, overall, in the UC space. In fact, buyers say that Cisco and Microsoft are their preferred Unified Messaging and Communicator suppliers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
Advanced developers who want to tell their computer what to do (literally), rather than punch keys or click on icon, may want to check out a "pre-beta" technical preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros for Vista.
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/29/2008
Offering includes diskless servers, Ethernet switches and a SAN-all in one box.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 04/29/2008