What, precisely, is dragging the OS down?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 07/01/2007
Upcoming service seen as a key piece of company's Unified Communications plans.
Getting past the complexities in Windows Integrity Control.
- By Greg Shields
- 07/01/2007
A new August offering by virtual lab maker Surgient will add support for two key enterprise virtualization products: VMware ESX Server 3 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
A Microsoft executive this week confirmed that Microsoft is close to offering a first step to help remedy the problem of Vista "downgrade rights," which posed complications for partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/28/2007
Microsoft Corp. will sell "affordable" Windows computers aimed at students in India.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
Earlier this week, Microsoft put exam 70-621 up for general availability.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/28/2007
The CTP release makes it appear increasingly likely that the successor to Windows Server 2003 will be shipped early next year.
The Microsoft-Google spitting match over desktop search is getting wetter every day, with Google now claiming that Microsoft's remedies don't go far enough, and Microsoft arguing that Google has a bad case of sour grapes.
Results of CDW's survey of 753 U.S. IT decision-makers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2007
Unless there's a pressing need in your environment, you might want to hold off on installing the beta of Apple's Safari browser for Windows, as every day seems to bring a new bug report.
For the past several weeks, there has been a rush among some Linux vendors to ink patent protection deals with Microsoft. But that may have spurred a backlash, as other Linux companies are asserting their independence by refusing to go along with what they see as knuckling under to Microsoft's legal threats.
Windows Vista, in its first half-year of life, has proven to be an exceptionally secure operating system -- much more secure, in fact, than competing desktop OSes, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft has agreed to make changes to its search capabilities in Windows Vista, in response to federal anti-competitive charges leveled by Google. The changes will be part of Vista's service pack 1, which Microsoft said it hopes to have ready by the "end of the year."
Microsoft has done an about-face on virtualization licensing for Windows Vista and decided to maintain the status quo.