With Windows Vista's promised ship date to corporate customers less than two months away, the rumor mill has been going wild with reports of phantom release candidate sightings. The latest is that Microsoft may release a new test build on Friday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/05/2006
Storage virtualization vendor DataCore Software announced it is shipping its SANmelody Virtual Infrastructure Foundation – a low-cost, entry-level virtualization solution for small and mid-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/05/2006
Microsoft announced today that next week's Patch Tuesday will include 11 patches, with at least two rated critical.
Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs apologized Wednesday for the company's past stock-option practices after a three-month internal investigation raised concerns over how some grants were handled between 1997 and 2002.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/05/2006
Microsoft to offer beta test for exam aimed at candidates who work with Windows Server 2003 in a hosted scenario.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/05/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Windows Vista will take much harsher steps to curtail piracy than previous versions of its operating system, including crippling the usefulness of computers found to be running unlicensed copies of the new software.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2006
IBM Corp. hopes a new effort to simplify programming for mainframe computers helps keep those warhorses competitive.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2006
Borland says it is readying a new application lifecycle quality management (LQM) solution that is based on its existing Caliber products as well as two sets of products it recently acquired.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/04/2006
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it filed an appeal against a 280.5 million euro ($357 million) fine the EU imposed in July for failing to obey an earlier antitrust ruling.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2006
Unlicensed copies will run temporarily, slowly restricting access to features over time as copies continue to be used without registration.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2006
Microsoft and EMC Corp. announced this week they are further expanding their cooperative marketing relationship by working to integrate Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the storage company's Documentum content management product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/04/2006
Microsoft announced it has acquired DesktopStandard Corp., a smaller firm that develops Group Policy-based enterprise desktop management products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/03/2006
Microsoft lodges formal appeal against $357 million EU antitrust fine.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/03/2006
Semiconductor sales worldwide surged to a monthly record of $20.5 billion in August, fueled by higher demand for memory chips used in PCs and mobile gadgets such as cell phones and digital cameras, an industry group reported Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/03/2006
This week, Microsoft announced the acquisition of DesktopStandard Corp. of Portsmouth, N.H. Formerly called AutoProf, the company was known for its line of PolicyMaker group policy tools
Virtualization vendor VMware will ship this week the latest iteration of its infrastructure bundle as well as the beta of a third-generation virtual machine conversion utility.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/03/2006
The online-payment service PayPal will simplify its user agreement and better inform users about fraud protection under an agreement announced Thursday with 28 state attorneys general.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2006
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to plant its Internet search engine on millions of computers, the latest volley in a high-stakes battle with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2006
Plus, new Forefront Security beta launches, IT governance software, more.
Vocational education classes may be poised for comeback in U.S. high schools.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2006