Microsoft continued its management reorganization this week as it moved to realign responsibilities within its operating systems group to reflect newly minted Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's growing influence.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/02/2006
Microsoft said this week that downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2 have been so popular it has decided to start charging for them.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/01/2006
Encrypt an entire system partition with Microsoft's BitLocker for Windows Vista.
- By Joern Wettern
- 08/01/2006
Are you the master of your Windows domain?
- By Doug Barney and Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2006
Upcoming Microsoft products will be more powerful and larger than their predecessors -- but with such great size comes great responsibilities.
Automate admin tasks easier with the new Windows PowerShell.
Windows Server 2003 R2 and the new DFS.
Microsoft quietly announced this week that it will distribute Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP as a high priority update via Automatic Updates when the new browser version is complete.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/27/2006
Microsoft will host a crowd of financial analysts on campus Thursday for its annual financial analyst meeting.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/26/2006
ADT Senior Editor Kathleen Richards talks with Forrester's John R. Rymer about what makes Office 2007 such a promising development platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/26/2006
Microsoft has completed its purchase of application virtualization vendor Softricity, the company said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/20/2006
Virtualization expert VMware makes available a free server tool, Microsoft expands virtualization licensing for SA customers, and the EU fines MS millions and threatens to seek more.
Microsoft announced this week it has acquired Winternals Software LP, a well-known vendor of enterprise systems recovery and data protection solutions for Windows, along with the company's associated freeware site Sysinternals.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/18/2006
Microsoft has abruptly pulled from its Web site a free folder encryption tool it recently released, saying the program's removal came about due to complaints from IT shops.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/18/2006
Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2006