Microsoft this week said it intends to redouble (or retriple) its commitment to education through its Partners in Learning program.
Daum Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Celrun Co. said Tuesday they were setting up a joint venture to offer Internet protocol television services in South Korea.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
System builders can now get a piece of the $10 million program.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/23/2008
Microsoft's Learning Group closes beta testing on several new Windows Server 2008 exams, with release soon after the software launches next month.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/22/2008
Microsoft this week said it intends to redouble (or retriple) its commitment to education through its Partners in Learning program.
After seven months as chief executive, Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang has concluded hundreds of employees will have to be fired to help the slumping Internet icon recover from years of misguided management.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/22/2008
Microsoft and Citrix have banded together even more tightly in the virtualization space, hoping to take on industry leader VMware.
For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
Microsoft now says it will allow more versions of the desktop OS to be virtualized.
Browser-based attacks, bot vector incursions, targeted phishing, mobile hacking and insider espionage rank as top five security menaces for 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/18/2008
Green IT. Everyone wants it or is paying lip service about wanting it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/18/2008
Following reports that Microsoft released "Milestone 1" for Windows 7 to several partners, TG Daily reports that software will get released in late 2009.
ChangeWave says Apple's Leopard operating system gets high marks from consumers, with Vista editions trailing the pack.
Microsoft hired a former Disney executive for its chief information officer vacancy. Tony Scott, 56, will start as CIO in February and report to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/17/2008
Redmond's MEDC will be rolled into ESC and Tech Ed 2008.
Business software maker Oracle Corp. agreed Wednesday to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the company that pioneered Web services software.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/16/2008
Sun Microsystems today said it will acquire MySQL, the leading supplier of open source database software, for $1 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/16/2008
A Microsoft spokesperson said today that Rob Short, corporate vice president of Windows Core Technology, left the Redmond, Wash.-based company last month.
Microsoft Corp. said hackers have found a way to use some older versions of its Excel spreadsheet program to take over control of people's computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/16/2008