A survey of IT professionals conducted last month for systems management provider KACE found that a majority of respondents expect that they won't deploy Windows 7 in the next year.
Microsoft will end "mainstream support" of XP on April 14, 2009, meaning that there will be no more free per-incident support for that operating system.
A key Microsoft team member involved with the modular design of Microsoft's server farms has joined another company.
After some comparatively light patch rollouts in past months, Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday promises a fuller slate with eight security bulletins.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/09/2009
The first version of Microsoft's desktop virtualization tool was announced last week.
- By Jim Barthold
- 04/09/2009
While the IT security community waited anxiously to see what havoc the Conficker worm might bring to infected systems on April 1, another worm slithered into the picture and now has Microsoft's full attention.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/08/2009
Microsoft has delayed the release of an upcoming enterprise security suite that integrates Microsoft Forefront security solutions, the company announced late last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/08/2009
Windows 7 beta testers will experience some pain when moving to the release candidate version of the operating system when it comes out, Microsoft officials explained on Tuesday.
Plus: An un-'Stirling' roll-out; PCI Compliance is better than no compliance; more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/07/2009
Phase 2 International now offers online IBM Lotus applications to SMBs, adding to its various hosted service offerings which already include a Microsoft solution stack.
Microsoft will permit Windows 7 Professional edition downgrades to Windows XP Professional, according a report by veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley published on Monday.
A new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability has come to Redmond's attention, this time affecting Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/03/2009
Microsoft on Wednesday announced an addition to its Windows Server product family, unveiling a new server specifically designed for very small businesses.
Microsoft has the stuff to come out of this recession on top.
How to find and protect it, in eight steps.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 04/01/2009