Finjan Software, a security firm involved in a recent public spat with Microsoft over publicly discussing the software giant's security flaws, has landed a minority investment and patent deal from Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2005
Microsoft faces high expectations when it reports financial results for the year later Thursday because the company's key external variable -- worldwide PC sales -- are way up.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2005
Microsoft agreed to terms to acquire FrontBridge Technologies, a provider of hosted e-mail security, compliance and archiving services. Assuming regulatory approval, Microsoft hopes to sell the FrontBridge services as a complement to its Exchange messaging server in the near term and later integrate its on-premise Exchange server with the hosted technologies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2005
Microsoft this week delivered a new version of the Windows AntiSpyware beta.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2005
Lawsuits claiming ex-employees violated so-called “non-compete” clauses in their work contracts by leaving one company to go to a competitor are nothing new. Microsoft has been involved in its fair share of them in the past, both for cherry picking other companies’ employees as well as to try to stop defections from its own ranks.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/20/2005
Intel is shipping a pair of new Itanium 2 processors that aim to boost the chips’ performance in compute intensive applications by increasing bus transfer speeds.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2005
Visionpace announces a new style of classroom/on-site training that lets students apply their knowledge in real-world situations.
Microsoft is working to fix a publicly disclosed flaw in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services that can lead to a denial of service attack against certain Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/19/2005
HP on Tuesday announced it is cutting 14,500 jobs worldwide -- about 10 percent of its total workforce -- in an ongoing effort to bolster the computer and printer firm’s bottom line.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2005
Microsoft has purchased an OEM license to use voice-processing software from Global IP Sound, a developer of voice codecs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/18/2005
Last week at the Automotive Conference 2005 in Yokahama, Japan, Microsoft announced the release of a new version of its customizable software platform Windows Automotive 5.0.
At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this month, Austin, Texas-based Neverfail Group announced the introduction of a virtual environment that allows Neverfail partners to present live, on-demand demonstrations of the company’s product line to potential customers via the Internet.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 07/18/2005
From the business wires this week: authentication solutions, search appliances, an enterprise-level file exchange program and a plug-in for encrypting backed-up data.
Real Enterprise Solutions announced Thursday that it is shipping Wisdom, a new integrated change and configuration management tool for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
Softricity is shipping version 3.2 of its SoftGrid Windows application virtualization package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
SonaSoft began shipping its SonaSafe Exchange Standby Solution, an integrated disk-to-disk backup and recovery and disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
Microsoft settled its legal dispute with Alacritech over the TCP Chimney networking technology for offloading network protocol processing, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal clears the way for Microsoft to deliver early next year the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003, an out-of-band feature pack that had been in legal limbo.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2005
Microsoft issued three critical security patches on its July patching day Tuesday, including the fix for a dangerous problem in the JVIEW Profiler for which Microsoft issued a kill bit last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2005
Microsoft could've substituted "Vertical" for the official theme of its Worldwide Partner Conference and it might've been more appropriate than the actual theme, "Velocity."
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/12/2005
It was only about 9:30 a.m, but Steve Ballmer
showed all the energy of a linebacker ready to do battle as he came bounding
onto the stage for his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference
on Sunday.
- By Paul Desmond
- 07/12/2005