Microsoft Pushes Non-Security Security Update

Microsoft Corp.released a new security advisory. The good news is that it doesn't actually deal with a known exploit, worm, or virus. In other words, it doesn't technically deal with security at all. 05/22/2007

Cure Could Be Worse Than Disease for IE7

Redmond's patches reportedly have issues. 05/22/2007

Will Vista Be Microsoft's Last 32-bit OS?

Redmond not telling -- yet. 05/22/2007

Microsoft Mixes Messages on Patents

What does Redmond want? 05/22/2007

You Can't Get No Satisfaction: Readers on Microsoft's Low Rating

Reasons include poor support for the little guys, hype and bloat, CPU drag, excessive authenticity checking -- and more -- as readers weigh in on the topic. 05/22/2007

'Popfly' To Help Bring Silverlight to the Masses

Microsoft has revealed one way it hopes to foster rapid adoption of Silverlight, its new technology for building rich Internet applications. 05/21/2007

An RDP Vulnerability Just Waiting To Happen?

According to security professionals, it's possible for users of Microsoft's new RDP 6.0 client to bypass server-side security settings and successfully establish connections—even when their sessions haven't been authenticated. 05/21/2007

Microsoft Office To Work With Chinese Counterpart

Microsoft, in its latest foray into the love/hate relationship with the open-source community, is extending the interoperability between a number of its products and the Chinese open document format. 05/21/2007

Vietnam Agrees To Use Licensed Software Only

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer witnessed the signing of an agreement Monday requiring all of Vietnam's government offices to use licensed computer software in a step to curb rampant piracy. 05/21/2007

Google, Salesforce.com Discuss Alliance

Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a double-barreled attack on Microsoft Corp. 05/21/2007

IBM To Launch Power6 Chip Next Month

IBM Corp. said Monday that its new Power6 microprocessor will go on sale next month, boasting twice the clock speed of the previous generation while consuming roughly the same amount of power. 05/21/2007

OpenDoc Gets Redmond Boost

Plus, Microsoft looks at the future of Windows Server 2008, the 32-bit OS might be nearing the end of the road, and more. 05/21/2007

Quest Tools for Exchange Migrators

Quest Software Inc. and Microsoft are teaming up to offer a new incentive program for partners that conduct migrations to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. 05/20/2007

Salesforce.com Inc. Acquires Koral Inc. April 10, 2007

An inside look at prominent deals within the Microsoft partner community. Part of an occasional series. 05/20/2007

SaaS Partnerships: New Horizons, Old Hurdles

An industry report describes big changes for partners under a Software as a Service model, but nettlesome compensation issues still remain. 05/20/2007

Gold Club List

Microsoft Reorganizes

Microsoft is doing some reorganizing, including one of its largest and most profitable business units. 05/18/2007

Microsoft Licensing Survey and Contest!

Here's your chance to win consulting time or a Redmond T-shirt just by letting Scott know your most pressing licensing questions! Plus, why you don't want to let the the "tail wag the dog" when it comes to software. 05/18/2007

Personal Information on Lucent Employees Missing

A computer disk containing personal information on thousands of Lucent employees and retirees has been missing for at least 10 days, Alcatel-Lucent said Thursday. 05/18/2007

Microsoft Gets Its Online Advertising Company

After missing out on DoubleClick and other high-profile companies, Microsoft finally got its foot in the Internet advertising door by buying aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion in cash. 05/18/2007

'Hundred Dollar Laptop' Makes South American Debut

The machines are the first in South America from the much-publicized "One Laptop Per Child" project, which hopes to put low-cost portable PCs in the hands of children in developing countries. 05/18/2007

Microsoft's $6 Billion Ad Firm

A TV metaphor springs to mind as Redmond shells out big bucks to patch together its online ad business. 05/18/2007

Online Advertiser Buying Spree Continues

WPP Group PLC, the world's second-largest advertising and marketing conglomerate, is buying the online advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million, the companies announced Thursday. 05/17/2007

Microsoft Supports Rival Office Document Format

Microsoft is supporting a chief rival to its Office suite for approval to a national standards board. 05/17/2007

New Web Site Opens Technology to Women, Minority-Owned Businesses

Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect. Microsoft is part of a consortium of companies that designed the free Web resource to help women and minority entrepreneurs use the Internet and other technology to help grow their businesses. 05/17/2007

Is Vista Microsoft's Last 32-bit OS?

Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week that the mid-cycle, R2 release of Windows Server 2008 will be 64-bit only. Some have extrapolated that to mean that Windows Vista will be the final 32-bit desktop OS from Microsoft. Not so, according to a company blog. 05/17/2007

N.Y. Attorney General Sues Dell

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday accused Dell Inc. and its financial services affiliate of "bait and switch" advertising and failing to deliver on promised customer service. 05/17/2007

Microsoft Unveils Windows Server Roadmap

Windows Server 2008 general availability is still months away, but Microsoft already has plans for a Windows Server 2008 R2 release in 2009. 05/17/2007

Is SAP Making a Deal With "the Devil"?

SAP apparently reacts to competition from Oracle by inking a database integration deal with Redmond. 05/17/2007

Next Gen of Wi-Fi Planned for Summer

The next generation of wireless Internet products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to hit shelves this summer, even though a final standard for the technology isn't due for another year, the industry group says. 05/16/2007

Google's Search Engine Goes Universal

In its latest technological leap, online search leader Google Inc. will begin showing videos on its main results page Wednesday along with photos, books and other content previously separated into different categories. 05/16/2007

Hewlett-Packard 2Q Profit Falls 7 Pct

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s second-quarter profit fell 7 percent despite a dramatic rise in sales of personal computers and servers, narrowly beating Wall Street's forecast. 05/16/2007

IBM Loses Retirees' Personal Info

IBM Corp., one of the world's leading providers of encryption and other data-management technologies, is in the uncomfortable position of trying to solve its own mystery involving missing computer tapes with sensitive information about employees and records of customer transactions. 05/16/2007

New Web Site Opens Technology to Women, Minority-Owned Businesses

Women and minority-owned businesses have a new technical training partner: Biz Tech-Connect. 05/16/2007

Gates: Vista Is Fastest-Selling OS Ever

Microsoft's chairman debunks naysayers with sales figures. 05/16/2007

VoIP, Conferencing Added to Office Communication Server 2007 Beta

Microsoft's unified communications picture is making one more push before seeing the light of day this summer in the form of deployable products. 05/15/2007

Doing Integration Right

When it comes to tackling integration, you'd be hard-pressed to find a company that does it better than FileEngine. 05/15/2007

Diving into the Virtual Pool

The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider. 05/15/2007

Gates Details Industry Support for Home Server, Unveils System Builder Edition

Bill Gates unveiled a system builder-focused version of the forthcoming Windows Home Server and detailed industry support for WHS. 05/15/2007

CodeGear Readies C++ and Ruby on Rails IDEs

Despite a tumultuous 15 months, Borland's developer tools subsidiary CodeGear is cranking out products. Spun off as a subsidiary in November, CodeGear expects to ship a major revision of its C++ Builder integrated development environment (IDE) next month. A commercial Ruby on Rails IDE for enterprise Web development is slated for the second half of this year. Both products were announced this week. 05/15/2007

Software Group: Piracy Losses Growing

The rate of global software piracy has remained static for three years, but the cost to companies that make the programs is rising, the Business Software Alliance said Tuesday. 05/15/2007

It's Official: 'Longhorn' Is Now Windows Server 2008

Bill Gates confirmed that the next version of Windows Server, formerly code-named "Longhorn," will be called "Windows Server 2008." 05/15/2007

Gates: 40 Million Vista Licenses in First 100 Days

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today that Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses for its Vista operating system in the first 100 days of release. 05/15/2007

UPDATED: Microsoft Claims Open Source Patent Infringements

Microsoft says that the open source software community is infringing on its patents, and wants the community to pony up for what it considers theft of its intellectual property, in the form of royalties. 05/14/2007

More Flash for Flash Cards

Microsoft and SanDisk team up to bring you better flash drives. 05/14/2007

New 'Net Names Near

Internet agency set to approve new domain names for 2008. 05/14/2007

Longhorn Name Dropping

A Longhorn by any other name...sounds really boring. 05/14/2007

Patent Storm Brewing

Microsoft tells open source community: Pay up! 05/14/2007

Virtually Gone

Microsoft pares down Viridian to get it out the door. 05/14/2007

Microsoft, SanDisk Partner on Flash Drives

Microsoft Corp. and SanDisk Corp. recently announced that they are partnering on the next generation of USB's flash drives and memory cards. 05/11/2007