Microsoft is releasing an out-of-cycle patch Thursday for the Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability that attackers were already exploiting when the flaw was made public in the last week of December. Earlier this week, Microsoft had said it would not release a patch until its regular Patch Tuesday event next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/05/2006
Spending on IT in the United States is set to grow by a modest 5 percent this year, according to new projections released by the technology market research firm IDC on Wednesday. The firm expressed unusual confidence about its numbers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/05/2006
Microsoft showed off the newest additions to its growing Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, including an updated line of SPOT-enabled watches and a wireless weather forecasting center with an information link through MSN Direct.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/05/2006
At the very end of 2005, Microsoft quietly began shipping the first beta of IronPython, a release of the open source Python scripting language that functions within the .NET common language runtime (CLR).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2006
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser slowly but surely lost significant market share to Firefox over the past year, according to the latest monthly traffic report released Wednesday by Web metrics tool vendor Net Applications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2006
Symantec is acquiring instant messaging software maker IM Logic.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2006
Intel kicked off the new year by updating its brand image to focus on the company’s emerging strategy of featuring itself as a platform company rather than just a chip giant.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2006
The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2006
Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/03/2006
Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2006
The Sony BMG rootkit fiasco could be the worst retail marketing meltdown since the launch of New Coke.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2006
An industry alliance formally defines "spyware,"a move that should help companies combat insidious intrusions.
Sun's director of Web technologies talks about Microsoft's decision to go open source with an Office file format.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/01/2006
Microsoft and Massachusetts continue sparring over file formats.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/01/2006
If your plans call for taking the new-generation MCP developer and SQL exams in the next few weeks, tell us how you plan to approach them and what steps you'll take to pass them.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/29/2005
Security experts at F-Secure reported on Tuesday a zero-day exploit that exposes vulnerabilities in the Windows graphics handling engine to enable malware to take control of PCs running fully patched Windows XP SP2.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/29/2005
Users of Microsoft’s upcoming Outlook “12” will be able to monitor Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feeds from within the e-mail client, according to a Microsoft official’s Weblog.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Research group IDC has upgraded its projections of global PC shipment growth for the fourth quarter of 2005 and calendar 2006. It seems that, even as growth slows, it’s nonetheless still continuing to grow, and more quickly than earlier estimates had predicted.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005