Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Microsoft Connected Cache (MCC), a built-in Windows capability aimed at reducing Internet bandwidth usage by storing Microsoft content locally within an enterprise's network.
Microsoft this week announced that its scareware blocker, which aims to identify potential scam sites and messages, is now in public preview.
It's hidden, but it's there.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a program that would let some paying Copilot users test drive new AI features before they become generally available.
Microsoft last week disclosed a sophisticated cyber campaign by a North Korean threat actor exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Chromium browser.
OpenVPN, a popular open source virtual private network (VPN) system integrated into millions of routers, firmware, PCs, mobile devices and other smart devices, is leaving users open to a growing list of threats, according to Microsoft.
In a major victory for U.S. antitrust regulators, a federal court on Monday ruled that Google used anti-competitive practices to secure and maintain a monopoly in the Internet search and advertising markets.
Microsoft has unveiled a generative AI-powered search experience for Bing, aiming to deliver more dynamic and detailed responses to user queries.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/29/2024
After April's larger-than-usual security update, Microsoft has pumped the brakes for May, issuing a slimmed-down 59 CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures).
Microsoft has announced that Zero Trust DNS (ZTDNS), which aims to restrict device access to untrusted domains in Windows, is currently in private preview.
Cisco has revealed that a global increase in brute force attacks targeting Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and other devices is currently taking place.
The Microsoft Edge Team on Tuesday explained their work on an Ad Selection API to address the impending disuse of third-party cookies in browsers.
Microsoft this week announced that Microsoft Edge for Business was released for "all supported platforms, including mobile."
Microsoft Edge for Business will be arriving during the week of Aug. 17, Microsoft announced on Friday.
Microsoft this week described a bunch of Microsoft Edge browser enhancements as part of its Build developer event announcements.
Microsoft has given advance notice to some organizations using Outlook for Windows of a coming default switch to the Microsoft Edge browser for opened Web links.
Microsoft now encrypts new Windows 365 Cloud PCs at rest, starting this month, according to a Friday announcement.
Quickly find out if an outage is coming from Microsoft or if there's a problem on your end.
Microsoft has broadened access to the Microsoft Edge Workspaces preview, which lets people collaborate in a group space within the browser.
Microsoft acknowledged that its emerging AI-based Bing search could affect content publisher revenue models, but also suggested that it is willing to talk terms.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of the artificial intelligence (AI)-generated Bing Image Creator in the Microsoft Edge browser, along with new Stories and Knowledge Card 2.0 Bing search capabilities.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that its new Bing search preview, enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, is becoming available as Bing and Edge mobile apps, and also as part of the Skype consumer telephony and messaging service.
The venerable Internet Explorer 11 browser for desktops is mostly getting automatically disabled and replaced with the Microsoft Edge browser through a Feb. 14 Microsoft Edge update.
Microsoft and Adobe have collaborated on "natively embedding" new Adobe Acrobat PDF technology into the Microsoft Edge browser for Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems, according to a Wednesday Microsoft announcement.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will start bringing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support to its Azure Active Directory services.
Microsoft is reportedly integrating the artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT chatbot into its Bing search engine to provide more human-like answers to user questions.
Microsoft has chimed in on the highly visible OpenSSL security risks that emerged last week, and advises users start applying fixes based on OpenSSL's recent patches.
Organizations waiting for Microsoft to "permanently disable" the Internet Explorer 11 browser should just end it beforehand, if possible.
Threat actors are adjusting their tactics and moving away from macro-based attacks after Microsoft's policy of blocking VBA macros in Office, according to a report released this week.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced features in Windows 11, build 25158, for its Windows Insider Program testers that includes a new Domain Name System (DNS) over Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption option.
The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) announced on Tuesday that it's planning to launch as a nonprofit organization, kicking off in January 2023.
The venerable Internet Explorer 11 browser will fall out of support on June 15, 2022, but just for certain Windows 10 operating system versions that follow the semiannual channel release update cycle.
Microsoft recently announced that its Edge browser will be receiving support for virtual private networks (VPNs).
Sixty countries and the United States have endorsed a "Future of the Internet" declaration document, which advocated for an open Internet that respects democratic and human rights.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it's adding the ability for Microsoft 365 Web app users to switch their accounts within browsers, which will be available in the next few months.
Let's take a look back and see how I did with my tech predictions made 12 months ago.
Microsoft added a preview solution in Microsoft Sentinel that helps IT pros find signs of Log4j exploits, according to a Thursday announcement and Twitter post.
CrowdStrike on Thursday presented advice for organizations attempting to address a security vulnerability in the Log4j Java logging framework used in Apache Web servers, currently undergoing widespread exploitation.
Log4j, a widely used open-source Java logging library, has a critical-remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that is currently being leveraged in malicious attacks.
- By John K. Waters, Kurt Mackie
- 12/15/2021
Microsoft on Tuesday released security patches for 67 common vulnerabilities and exploits, even as organizations are scrambling to address a Log4j flaw in Apache servers that's under active exploit.
Brien breaks down how our metaverse future will change how we interact with technology in the coming years.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new tool for IT pros that lets organizations keep using Internet Explorer (IE) technologies for their Web sites and Web apps via the Microsoft Edge browser.
With something so abstract as digital space, our ideas of what it can be may differ from one another.
Microsoft has taken steps to favor the use of the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 11, according to recent critical comments.
Microsoft on Tuesday released security patches for more than 70 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).
The Microsoft Security Response Center warned of active attacks leveraging a remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer's Trident engine (MSHTML), per a Tuesday Twitter post.
Microsoft this week described QUIC, an Internet transport layer protocol alternative to the venerable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), in an announcement.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced an Automatic HTTPS preview feature for the Microsoft Edge browser.
Microsoft last week announced that its Internet Explorer 11 desktop browser will be "retired" next year for certain Windows 10 versions.
With most of us continuing to work from home and video conferences now the norm, it's more important than ever to make sure your Internet connection is up to snuff.
The Adobe Flash Player will get removed from most Windows systems via Microsoft's patch service in July, according to an updated Windows blog post.
The Microsoft Edge browser will be getting a new "Extended Stable" feature update option later this year for organizations that need more testing time, Microsoft announced on Friday.
Microsoft this week explained that its non-Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser (based on earlier EdgeHTML technology) will get removed when April "update Tuesday" security patches get applied to Windows 10 systems.
The U.S. National Security Agency this month published an advisory on detecting and blocking old and insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol use by organizations.
Generally speaking, a browser should act like a browser, and nothing more. But Microsoft's latest updates to Edge enhance the browser's practical usefulness in some surprising ways.
Microsoft this week announced the availability of the Microsoft Edge browser for Linux systems, which is currently available as a preview for participants in the Microsoft Edge Insider Program.
Microsoft's efforts to buy TikTok's social media operations outside China have ended, even as rival bidder Oracle's proposal has apparently succeeded.
Microsoft announced that the installation of its September security updates could stop future software updates from arriving if organizations using its Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) solution for patch management are connecting using the HTTP protocol rather than HTTPS.
Microsoft on Monday announced a timeline on when support for the Internet Explorer 11 browser and the "legacy" (EdgeHTML) version of the Microsoft Edge browser will end.
Microsoft confirmed in a Sunday announcement that it is engaged in negotiating with Beijing-based ByteDance to buy some of its TikTok consumer social media service holdings.
Microsoft on Tuesday described coming Microsoft Edge browser improvements for IT pros, end users and developers as part of its Build event announcements.
Microsoft is now enabling people to test Domain Name System (DNS) over HTTPS encryption, known as "DoH," via a recently released preview version of Windows 10.
The Chromium Project announced on Friday that it's delaying enforcement of SameSite cookie changes, and is temporarily rolling back those changes, because of the COVID-19 turmoil.
Microsoft indicated on Friday that updates to its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser are on hold, but just for the "Stable" version.
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is getting the ability to block potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), Microsoft announced on Thursday.
Microsoft has reversed course on its plan to deliver an extension to Office 365 ProPlus users that would switch their Chrome and Firefox browser search engines to Bing.
Google is planning to issue warnings to Chrome browser users about potentially insecure content that can get downloaded when visiting Web sites.
Microsoft's new browser seems zippier than its predecessor, but while it has retained one of Brien's most-used features, it also seems to have done away with another.
The Internet Explorer 10 browser will reach its end-of-support milestone on Feb. 11, 2020 for both Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
IT pros could face Web application issues as early as next month with the implementation of a coming SameSite Web change, which will affect how cookies are used across sites.
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled plans to deliver an extension that will change the default search engine to Bing in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the first release of its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser at the "stable" commercial-release stage.
Google announced on Friday that it will continue to support its Chrome browser on Windows 7 until "at least July 15, 2021."
Microsoft plans to deliver its new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser to end users via its Automatic Updates service sometime in 2020, likely in January.
Microsoft is gearing up its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser for its commercial product launch next month.
Microsoft announced this week that the Windows operating system already has support for an encrypted Domain Name System option that promises to add greater privacy protections for Internet connections.
Of that number, 13 vulnerabilities are rated "Critical" to patch, while 62 vulnerabilities are deemed "Important."
Microsoft on Monday released two "out-of-band" security advisories, one for its Internet Explorer (IE) browsers and another regarding its Microsoft Defender antimalware solution.
Microsoft has slightly altered its Flash retirement plans for its older supported browsers.
Microsoft Edge Insider Program participants now have access to the Beta Channel release of Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge Web browser on the Windows and Mac platforms.
In a linguistic simplification of sorts, Microsoft has jettisoned the object of the preposition, as well as the preposition itself and even the article of the preposition, from its formerly known "Office on the Web" product branding.
Microsoft on Tuesday outlined what's to come with its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, particularly for business and enterprise users.
Now that he's had a few months to test drive Microsoft's new browser, Brien shares his thoughts on what makes Edge tick.
Of the many security improvements Microsoft made to the latest Windows 10 release, the ability to wall-off the Edge browser against malware attacks is one of the most critical.
Windows Server has a built-in iSCSI initiator that it can use to connect to an iSCSI target. Before it can do so, however, you'll need to enable and configure the initiator. Here's how.
Microsoft announced this week that it has released previews of its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Web browsers for use on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 systems.
Microsoft on Monday announced that early versions of its new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser for Windows 10 are now available for testing as part of the Microsoft Edge Insider testing program.
Microsoft's move to build Edge on Chromium raises a big question: With Firefox and Chrome dominating the browser market, why does it still matter what Microsoft does?
Google on Thursday described two "zero-day" vulnerabilities affecting both the Google Chrome browser and Windows 7 systems that are being actively used in targeted attacks.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced on Monday that the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification is now considered to be an official W3C standard, which likely will accelerate passwordless authentications for Web transactions.
Microsoft is delivering a new Office app for Windows 10 consumer and business users over the new few weeks, according to a Wednesday announcement.
Microsoft's February "update Tuesday" release was notable for delivering major security updates and architectural changes to all supported Exchange Server products, along with a "zero-day" IE patch.
Microsoft on Wednesday made the case that organizations shouldn't use Internet Explorer as their default browser for every activity.
The event for organizations and IT pros known as "Domain Name System Flag Day" will kick off on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019.
Cisco acknowledged vulnerabilities in two of its small business router products last week that could lead to information disclosures.
Internet Explorer 10 will fall out of support next year for users of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft noted in a Monday announcement.
Microsoft isn't exactly killing off its EdgeHTML rendering engine, even after declaring plans to use Chromium open source technologies in its Edge browser.
Microsoft plans to align its Microsoft Edge browser production efforts with the open source Chromium Web platform for the desktop version of the browser, the company announced on Thursday.
A Tuesday broadcast by Microsoft President Brad Smith served as a reminder that Microsoft is still proceeding with its efforts to expand broadband Internet access in rural and underserved areas of the United States.
Microsoft recently clarified its previously declared position that it had planned to drop support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols used with Office 365 services by the end of this month.
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are all moving to disable the use of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols versions 1.0 and 1.1 in their browsers, giving notice that they'll be dropping support within the first half of 2020.
Microsoft announced on Thursday that its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers will stop trusting certain SSL/TLS certificates that were issued by former certificate authority company Symantec.
The Cybersecurity Tech Accord was announced today, with 34 tech companies joining.
Microsoft Edge apps for Android and iOS devices are now out of preview, Microsoft announced today.
On Monday Adobe alerted the public that attackers are taking advantage of a remote code execution security vulnerability in its Flash platform in Web browsers.
The Microsoft Edge browser is coming in preview form to iOS- and Android-based devices, according to a Microsoft announcement today.
The developer team behind Microsoft Edge talked about the browser's progress during the third-annual Microsoft Edge Web Summit today in Seattle.
Microsoft this week offered yet another preview of a new Operations Management Suite (OMS) feature, this time focused on checking the security compliance of Windows Web servers.
Adobe will stop supporting its Flash Player browser plug-in by the end of 2020, the company announced today.
Learn how to configure and protect cloud-based apps in Azure.
Since bringing blockchain tools and distributed ledgers to its Azure cloud, Microsoft's Ethereum-based framework has begun evolving rapidly with three core components either in preview or under development.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 07/14/2017
Microsoft this week offered a proposal to jumpstart rural broadband access in the United States, but the plan was immediately condemned by the National Association of Broadcasters.
Microsoft has emerged as a leading force behind the rise of enterprise blockchain networks with a formative portfolio of new and forthcoming services in Azure. Learn how these cryptographically hashed distributed ledgers could change how transactions are processed.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/10/2017
Microsoft's Azure Active Directory service integrated with Ping Identity's PingAccess is now commercially available, supporting single sign-on access by end users to so-called "legacy" Web applications.
Digital signature technology firm DocuSign today alerted customers that part of its systems have been compromised, which has led to an increase in phishing e-mails sent to users of the service.
Microsoft on Thursday enumerated browser management policies of benefit to IT pros that are available with Windows 10 version 1703, the "creators update."
Organizations can now speed up the performance of their SharePoint Online sites using the newly available Office 365 Public Content Delivery Network.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of the Windows 10 "creators update," along with security updates and some product deprecations.
Microsoft is planning to preview its collaborative work with Ping Identity this week, providing organizations with a more streamlined way to get single sign-on access to header-based Web applications.
Microsoft resumed its monthly security update releases on Tuesday following a rare deferral last month.
Google this week announced that Shell Hashing Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) has been broken.
When antimalware software isn't up to the challenge, it's time to take care of the problem manually.
Verizon, an Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) service partner with Microsoft, now provides HTTPS support for custom domains, Microsoft announced this week.
The Microsoft Edge browser will get some improvements with the Windows 10 "creators update."
Here's how I fixed an issue when malware took down Edge's ability to connect to Google.
Microsoft announced plans this week to further ease the use of the Adobe Flash Player in Windows 10.
Microsoft has published a brief new guide for organizations grappling with the ongoing Secure Hash Algorithm-1(SHA-1) deprecation, which is a security concern for browser users and Web site operators.
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that the Russian hacking group Stronium has launched a spear phishing campaign to exploit a recently discovered flaw in Windows 10.
Microsoft today announced that the Microsoft Update Catalog can now be accessed by other browsers besides Internet Explorer.
Microsoft's biggest security announcement this week during its Ignite event for IT pros may have concerned Edge, the company's consumer-oriented Web browser.
Keep an eye on all your online shopping goodies through Office 365.
Microsoft announced this week that it's planning to initiate a new limited-time blocking scheme for out-of-date Adobe Flash ActiveX used in its Internet Explorer 11 browser.
The on-premises and cloud editions of Skype for Business Server and the Cloud PBX are promising and less-expensive alternatives to traditional phone systems, but come in a complex array of options and require integration.
Microsoft announced today that it really is ending RC4 support in its Edge and Internet Explorer 11 browsers.
Browsium updated its three Web browser management solutions on Monday and released a new client application that unifies them.
Microsoft is touting its Edge browser improvements with the release this week of the Windows 10 "anniversary update" version 1607 (build 14393.10).
Microsoft's coming Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 upgrades will add some Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) improvements, company announced this week.
Microsoft claimed today that its Edge browser beats out rivals in terms of energy efficiency.
Microsoft announced this week that some of its technology used for WebGL graphics rendering in its Microsoft Edge browser is being released as open source code in the GitHub repository.
Microsoft now has a site that IT pros can check to see if an application is compatible with Windows 10.
Microsoft has been expanding its cloud services infrastructure of late, including a new trans-Atlantic subsea cable that's being built in partnership with Facebook.
Microsoft is planning some Group Policy enhancements for organizations using both the Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge browsers.
Microsoft has bolstered its Azure Active Directory Domain Services offering, which is currently at the preview stage.
Microsoft's Internet browsers will stop trusting Web sites using SHA-1 certificates for security, starting this summer.
Administrators and users should uninstall QuickTime from all Windows-based systems following the discovery of two vulnerabilities in the software that Apple has stopped supporting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2016
Microsoft is previewing Skype voice and video communications using its Edge browser without the use of browser plug-ins.
Microsoft explained a bit more this week how its Edge Web browser will enable access without passwords.
Microsoft inched away from Adobe Flash this week with a new "auto-pause" capability that's available in preview with the Microsoft Edge browser.
Microsoft gave a progress report this week on its relatively new Edge browser.
Microsoft had more developer news on Day 2 of its Build event, this time mostly focused on its Azure cloud computing resources.
Concerns about restrictions on encryption took center stage at the annual RSA Conference where experts and government officials discussed the precedent that Apple's legal battle with the FBI could set.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/22/2016
Microsoft unveiled a new extensions capability for its Edge Web browser this week, but it's just available for limited testing.
Microsoft will pull the plug on support for the RC4 cipher used with its Edge and Internet Explorer 11 browsers, starting next month.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced this week that it has formed a new Web Authentication Working Group to improve Web access security.
While apps have grown in popularity, especially for mobile users, don't expect to see the end of the Web as we know it any time soon.
Here's a speculative look on how Microsoft's new browser plays into its Office 365 strategy.
Microsoft is recommending that its older Internet Explorer browsers be upgraded to IE 11 first before "uninstalling" them to meet the Jan. 12 end-of-support deadline.
Microsoft plans to issue warnings to those Internet Explorer users who continue to run versions of the browser that have fallen out of support after a Jan. 12 deadline.
The year 2016 will see the end of "extended support" for some Microsoft products.
Microsoft has gone all-in with its Azure Redis Cache service and plans to stop offering a couple of alternative cache services next year.
Browsium today rolled out a new tool for tracking compatibility issues associated with Web applications and browsers.
Microsoft added a few enhancements this month to help organizations better address their Internet Explorer app compatibility woes.
ScaleOut Software today announced an enhancement to its AppFabric replacement technology.
Microsoft's Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Services will be coming to an end next month.
Microsoft released a small patch featuring six bulletins.
Enterprises looking for an alternative to YouTube for sharing videos will find much to like with Office 365's offering.
The American Registry for Internet Numbers announced today that its free pool of IPv4 addresses has hit the "zero" level.
Expert James Staten explains why some organizations using cloud services may benefit from private Internet connections.
Microsoft announced today that it will add support in its Edge browser for the open source VP9 video codec fostered by Google and its WebM coalition.
Multiple memory corruption flaws look to be fixed with this month's Patch Tuesday offering.
HP is now reselling a Web application remediation solution from Browsium to support Windows 10 moves by organizations.
Microsoft has improved some of its controls for IT pros managing browser use on Windows 10 machines, according to a Wednesday announcement.
Microsoft needs to start utilizing the value of Bing that moves past just its online search capabilities.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 08/25/2015
Microsoft released an out-of-band update for all supported versions of Internet Explorer today after active attacks using the hole have been seen in the wild.
Cumulative updates for Internet Explorer and Microsoft's newest browser Edge should be this month's top priorities.
Plus: Yahoo ads expose users to ransomware attack for four days.
Oracle this week released its latest quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) that includes fixes for 193 issues across the company's product line.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/23/2015
Microsoft releases a large security update, which includes four critically rated fixes for IE, Hyper-V and Windows.
Microsoft argues that the problem would not be addressed due to the difficulty of exploiting the hole and the small possible target size of the vulnerability.
Browsium released Ion 3.5 today, with multiple enhancements to the company's browser management and Web app remediation tool.
The FBI is investigating whether St. Louis Cardinals officials breached a private database of the Houston Astros.
Organizations considering Windows 10 upgrade options will be steered, to a great degree, by Microsoft's coming service-branch options, which will affect browser choice.
Plus, Microsoft turns on HTTP Strict Transport Security for Internet Explorer 11.
Microsoft has enhanced the user interface of its Office 365 Web applications for business subscribers.
While the process to get up and running may not be the most intuitive, its worth the effort to take advantage of Microsoft's IPAM.
While it's still a work in progress, there's a lot to love with Microsoft's new Web browser.
This month's security update also includes "critical" bulletins for Windows, Office and .NET Framework.
Microsoft talked last week about how its new Edge Web browser is improving security while jettisoning older Internet Explorer technologies along the way.
Users will be warned if an ad may be fraudulent or misleading.
Microsoft announced today at its Build event that its next Web browser associated with Windows 10 will be called "Edge."
Microsoft this week announced a couple of improvements to its Internet Explorer browser compatibility solutions for organizations.
Yahoo and Microsoft on Thursday announced a change to its search partnership deal that was originally struck in 2009.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/17/2015
Just one day after Microsoft released its monthly security patch, attackers had already reverse-engineered one of the bulletins and have been using it in active attacks.
This month's Security Update includes a fix for a 0-day issue in Microsoft Office.
Security firm Cylance has reportedly uncovered a Windows security issue that could lead to attackers stealing user credentials.
Encrypting ransomware is an annoying persistent threat that many IT admins unfortunately write off as an ID10T error they can't do much about. End-user training and targeted backup strategies can serve as effective enterprise countermeasures.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/30/2015
The term is not just a buzzword. The trick is to figuring out how to get Big Data to work for you.
Microsoft announced a switch today from its previously outlined Windows 10 browser development strategy.
The company has warned that the bogus Internet certs could be used in man-in-the-middle attacks.
Microsoft extended an Internet Explorer discovery tool to support older browsers.
Microsoft has added OneNote and privacy options in an update for its Office "Sway" app.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer team explained today why they didn't use an open source rendering engine with Spartan.
Both Apple and Linux finished the year with more security flaws than Microsoft's OSes.
The malware used is impossible to remove from infected devices, according to Kaspersky Lab.
The company said that information including, names, birthdays, addresses and Social Security numbers were taken.
Microsoft answered a few questions about its leading-edge Spartan Web browser on Tuesday.
Keeping up its poor showing in AV-Test's assessments, the free offering from Microsoft scored a zero when it came to protection.
Microsoft will draw a line in the sand of sorts when it releases its new browser for Windows 10, which goes by the code name "Spartan."
Microsoft may be planning to deliver a new Web browser with Windows 10, diverging somewhat from its traditional Internet Explorer product line.
A TLS padding issue could lead to attack. Also: Microsoft enables POODLE protection in IE 11.
Today's release looks to fix 25 flaws in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office.
U.S. companies should be on the lookout for wiper malware that could brick computers.
Mozilla announced a five-year partnership deal today with Yahoo on browser search integration for the U.S. market.
Experts weigh in on how they see security and cultural trends related to the Internet going in the next decade.
Microsoft released a preview this week of a new free service that delivers the latest Internet Explorer browser across Windows, Android and Apple platforms.
Microsoft plans to expand the backward compatibility options enabled by the Enterprise Mode feature in Internet Explorer 11, starting next month.
The Worldwide Web Consortium published HTML5 as a Recommendation this week.
Microsoft gave notice today that it will disable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 support in its Internet Explorer browser and in its Online Services, starting on Dec. 1, 2014.
The new process looks to verify the authenticity of a Google site before users provide their login details.
Internet Explorer will begin blocking outdated Silverlight ActiveX plug-ins, starting on Nov. 11.
This month's security offering includes three bulletins rated "critical" and five "important" items.
Romanian hackers are targeting the Yahoo Games servers.
Microsoft recently noted a problem with its Outlook Web App and its Exchange Admin Center when used with the latest Google Chrome browser.
The tech company said it was fined $250,000 per day for not handing over requested user data.
This month's offering includes one "critical" and three "important" bulletins that look to fix 42 different flaws.
Microsoft has an evolving plan to help organizations address their legacy Internet Explorer support problems, but it only goes so far.
Internet performance degradations may occur this week and the next due to settings on some IPv4 routers that are used across the Internet.
Chromebooks are mostly being used today in North American educational markets, but sales are set to triple by 2017, according to a new report from Gartner Inc.
This moth's Security Update addresses a total of 37 flaws.
Microsoft's new security protection feature for Internet Explorer that blocks older installations of ActiveX will now start to take effect on Sept. 9, instead of the earlier announced Aug. 12 date, and it will only block Oracle Java ActiveX for now.
Microsoft wants organizations and individuals to use the latest Internet Explorer versions, so much so that it announced some new policy changes today.
Here's the what, how and why of the SharePoint deployment tool.
- By Spike Xavier
- 08/07/2014
Microsoft plans to add ActiveX blocking capabilities into certain versions of its Internet Explorer browsers on Aug. 12.
This week's incident highlights the need for a change in attitudes relating to corporate security.
The study took a look at 16 multinational enterprises in the first half of 2014 to map out what the top trouble areas for IT are.
Microsoft plans to release an updated Internet Explorer 11 mobile browser with the next release of Windows Phone 8.1 that will address some Web site compatibility issues.
The latest version adds two new mitigation features and support for 64-bit systems.
Oracle released its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) on Tuesday with 113 security flaw fixes for multiple Oracle products, including 20 for Java Standard Edition (Java SE).
- By John K. Waters
- 07/16/2014
While the InstallShield flaw currently has a limited workaround, there's no word on whether the Dell problem is further being investigated by Microsoft.
The update will prevent the spoofed certificates from being used in man-in-the-middle attacks.
Microsoft's monthly security update comes with fixes for 29 flaws and includes three updated security advisories.
Microsoft changed how Internet Explorer 11 handles password information on forms with the aim of giving users more control.
The HTML5 Web specification that's used in browsers today is on track for "Recommendation" status.
The worldwide IPv4 address shortage is affecting some U.S.-based Azure customers, Microsoft indicated this week.
Plus: Microsoft warns of the importance of keeping Java patched.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has lost its long-time U.S. market lead to Google Chrome, according to stats published today by Adobe Digital Index (ADI).
The vulnerability has been discovered out of the wake of the Heartbleed bug disclosure.
Microsoft officially launched this week status.modern.ie, a Web site aimed at keeping the public informed on what new features and tweaks will be making their way into future updates and versions of IE.
The end is nearer for IPv4, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The report by security firm FireEye found that network security can't keep up with the sophistication of today's attacks.
This month's security update also arrived with six "important" fixes and three new security advisories.
Microsoft today described some new features coming to Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Phone 8.1.
With IT facing more complex and new types of threats compared to years past, it's time to arm yourself with the best tools to keep you and your network secure.
Another major Web software flaw has been disclosed, one that could redirect your personal information into the wrong hands.
The fix comes on the heels of attackers actively exploiting the Internet Explorer Flash flaw against Windows XP users.
The latest flaw to strike every version of Microsoft's Web browser has been seen to be in active use by attackers.
Microsoft's free antivirus offering showed to be lacking when stacked up against its competitors.
The annual Verizon security report found that hackers are becoming both more efficient and quicker in their attacks.
Plus: OpenVPN keys are also at risk of theft due to bug; first Heartbleed-connected arrest made.
One of the features that IT pros will see this week with Microsoft's newly updated Internet Explorer 11 browser will be a new "Enterprise Mode."
While Web sites scramble to patch the vulnerability, it's time to change your online passwords.
Microsoft's April Security Update features only two "critical" bulletins.
As Microsoft continues to find more places where it can integrate Bing , it's becoming less and less likely the company can -- or will -- sell off Bing.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 04/01/2014
Mozilla's decision to halt its Firefox browser development for Windows 8.1 may be due, in part, to a confusing OS feature.
The HP-sponsored event proved that while today's software is more secure than ever, vulnerabilities will be found once money is on the line.
Mozilla last week announced that it has stopped Firefox browser production for Windows 8.
The U.S. government announced today that it will privatize Internet domain-name assignment and management operations that are currently handled by a contracted organization.
IT pros may start to see lots of expired Internet Explorer updates showing up in their logs.
This month marks the third relatively light patch rollout for Microsoft in a row for 2014.
Many of the compromised devices were breached using simple brute force techniques to obtain the routers' passwords.
Microsoft has changed the name of its Office Web Apps.
Those that have upgraded to the latest version of Microsoft's Web browser (Internet Explorer 11) are not at risk for attack.
Microsoft's monthly patch includes four 'critical' and three 'important' fixes that address a total of 32 vulnerabilities.
Kaspersky Labs, the firm who disclosed the flaw to Adobe, said one of the vulnerabilities is being used to steal user credentials.
Microsoft is rumored to be planning an "enterprise mode for IE" feature for Internet Explorer 11 to address compatibility issues faced by organizations.
InfoPath will make way for a future "Office forms" technology.
Oracle's quarterly patch arrived on Tuesday with new security fixes for 144 vulnerabilities in their products, including 36 fixes for Java Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7).
- By John K. Waters
- 01/16/2014
The Microsoft Update team plans to work through this holiday period on a Windows XP resource-hog problem that has burdened some users for months, and even years.
The company finishes 2013 with a total of 106 security bulletins.
Microsoft explained some speed improvements made in its latest Internet Explorer 11 browser.
Plus: Microsoft takes steps to stop government censorship of Skype calls in China.
Yahoo said that all data traveling through its datacenters will be encrypted by the end of the first quarter of 2014.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 browser supports the latest Transport Layer Security standard by default.
Microsoft's monthly Security Update arrived today with three "critical" bulletin items and five "important" fixes -- all addressing 19 flaws in a number of Microsoft products and services.
With October's massive Microsoft product releases comes new and modified configuration options.
- By Greg Shields
- 11/08/2013
Microsoft is delivering most of the improvements to its Office Web Apps that it promised back in June.
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 systems today.
Microsoft sent word today that its monthly patch for November will contain three bulletin items rated "critical" and five "important" items.
Google announced on Tuesday that it has ended integration work with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser.
According to documents that were released on Wednesday, both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters tapped overseas datacenters used by both Yahoo and Google.
Google plans to extend security and patch support for its Chrome browser running on Microsoft's Windows XP until April 2015.
A tool that blocks Internet Explorer 11 installations on Windows 7 machines is now available.
This month hits the 10-year anniversary of Microsoft's first monthly security update release. And in celebrating a decade of Patch Tuesdays, Redmond is gifting IT four bulletin items rated "critical" and four "important" for October's monthly rollout.
Adobe alerted customers on Thursday that a breach by hackers has resulted in the loss of 2.9 million customers' personal data -- including user names, encrypted credit card information and passwords.
Microsoft's Internet Information Services 8.5 Web server will be arriving soon and bringing a few new improvements.
Microsoft today rolled out a "release preview" test version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7.
Microsoft issued a security advisory today for all supported versions of Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 displays JPEG graphics faster than previous IE browsers, Microsoft claims.
Microsoft's September patch includes 13 items and addresses 47 flaws.
Brien breaks down on what has changed in the world of SEO in his years of absence.
Most importantly this month is a cumulative fix for 11 flaws in all versions of Microsoft's Web browser.
The Windows 8.1 Preview reveals a much improved OS that fixes many of the flaws in the original Windows 8 release. Here's what to look for in the new OS.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/12/2013
Microsoft's light monthly update will feature a majority of fixes for Windows.
Microsoft has improved its SkyDrive cloud-based storage and collaboration resource, but it also will be dropping the SkyDrive name following a legal dispute.
Microsoft presented the updated figure during a discussion of private and public sector cooperation when battling cyber crime.
Microsoft today released a "developer preview" of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7.
Microsoft, who has denied being involved with Prism since the program was first divulged, released a statement this week saying it did not provide the NSA with a backdoor to access personal Outlook.com e-mails and Skype conversations.
This month's Microsoft Security Update also comes with word of a new policy for vulnerable apps in the Windows Store.
At its Build conference this week Microsoft launched a preview version of Internet Explorer 11, in conjunction with the release of the Windows 8.1 preview. Both are expected to be officially released later this year.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/28/2013
In lab tests, Microsoft's latest browser blocks 99 percent of malware attacks. But can lab-tested attacks accurately represent real-world attacks?
According to Websense, a San Diego-based information security solutions provider, most browser Java installations continue to be unpatched or outdated, leaving the majority of users vulnerable to exploit code already in use in the wild.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/13/2013
The cumulative security bulletin for Microsoft's Web browser addresses 19 separate flaws.
This month's security update will bring Microsoft's bulletin total for the year up to 51.
Microsoft's May Security Update arrived today with 10 bulletins, two of which related "critical," that are aimed at fixing 33 flaws in various Microsoft software products.
The temporary fix looks to get a permanent solution with this month's Microsoft patch.
The Dow Jones took a tumble after a fake alert about a White House attack was posted on the news organization's Twitter feed.
An independent study found that Microsoft's search results included much more malware than Google's.
Will adding a second step when logging in lower the amount of hijacked accounts?
This month's Microsoft security update, released today, features nine bulletins -- two rated "critical" and seven "important."
An Internet Explorer fix should be the top priority for IT on Tuesday.
Microsoft today released its very first report profiling law enforcement agency requests to access user content and subscriber information.
And one security expert unravels the tangled web of related attacks.
The Pwn2Own contest has already taken down Microsoft's latest Internet browser.
Microsoft's monthly security update arrived today with seven bulletins that address 20 flaws across a myriad of products.
Microsoft will enable the Adobe Flash Player "to run by default" in Internet Explorer 10.
This month will bring us four "critical" and three "important" bulletins.
Microsoft got hit today with a €561-million fine from the European Commission.
Clicking on a Web site could cause your hard drive to be filled with unwanted and harmful data in a short period of time.
Microsoft this week explained a little more about how the Adobe Flash Player works with Internet Explorer 10 on the Windows 8 operating system.
Microsoft plans to deliver translation capabilities to its Yammer enterprise social networking application by "late spring."
Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is broadly available today for download.
But, as history shown us, the "Bamital" ring may be down, but it'll probably be back.
February's Microsoft Security Update arrived today with a larger-than-usual 12 bulletins -- five rated "critical" and seven "important."
Microsoft's monthly security update will arrive on Tuesday with 12 bulletins targeting 57 vulnerabilities, according to the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.
Microsoft last week released a new tool that will block the automatic installation of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 systems when that browser arrives.
Update 13 for Java 7 and Update 39 for Java 6 was released this afternoon by Oracle.
A new book describes Microsoft's Windows 95 product push that later led to antitrust problems with the U.S. government.
Microsoft released an out-of-band patch for its Web browser earlier this week.
Microsoft on Monday released an out-of-band fix for a zero-day use-after free memory vulnerability in its Internet Explorer Web browser.
The recently discovered IE zero-day vulnerability has been overlooked by this month's Microsoft security update.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced two settlements that it made last week with Google after a year-and-a-half review.
While popular browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer have done a lot of changing over the past six years, bookmarking features have done little to change their cumbersome nature.
A Microsoft-funded study described "hidden costs" for organizations that use multiple browsers.
December's security update arrived today with five "critical" bulletins and two "important" items that affect all versions of Windows, including its newest Windows 8 and Windows RT.
Microsoft will be finishing off 2012 with a monthly security update that addresses 11 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Office and Windows.
Microsoft is working on issuing future update releases for its Forefront Threat Management Gateway and Unified Access Gateway products.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that a "release preview" test version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 can now be downloaded.
Microsoft's first security update after the release of its newest OS features three "critical" bulletin items that address 4 reported issues for Windows 8 and Windows RT.
This new scheduling is directly associated with Microsoft's decision to embed Flash into Internet Explorer 10.
A new management tool from Browsium aims to give IT pros greater control in a mixed-up multibrowser world.
From hardware to device management to security to IE 10 oddities, here's an in-depth look at what you should be aware of when Microsoft rolls out Windows 8 later this week.
Starting on Friday, Microsoft's bonanza of software and hardware relases begin.
Microsoft announced today that it plans to support Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 and will release a "preview" next month.
According to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Internet Explorer 10's Do Not Track" (DNT) setting will adversely hurt the quality and quantity Internet content.
Microsoft is readying what it calls a "Fix it" for the Internet Explorer zero-day flaw that surfaced earlier this week.
Security software firm Sophos is apologizing after a recent update to its antivirus software resulted in the software incorrectly categorizing its update utility as harmful in Windows machines.
The IE vulnerability incident presents Microsoft with a perfect occasion to brag about the new security features hitting Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10.
Microsoft released a security advisory on Monday to address a zero-day vulnerability found in Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions.
An Anonymous hacker (although not sure if part of Anonymous or just anonymous) was quick to take credit on Monday for the six-hour Web site outages of GoDaddy customers.
Less than 24 hours after Oracle released Java Version 7 Update 7, a security firm has found a new error in the latest version.
It's been a tough week and a half for Oracle and its Java crew.
A recent phishing campaign that employs a Microsoft e-mail template has been spotted in the wild by researchers.
Oracle released an update for Java 7 that addresses "3 distinct but related vulnerabilities and one security-in-depth issue affecting Java running in desktop browsers," said the company.
Security firm FireEye released information yesterday on a Java flaw that has been seen in targeted attacks in the wild, and has been tested to work on most major Web browsers for both Mac and PC.
Microsoft issued Security Advisory 2743314 on Monday to warn users of two tools readily available that can be used to steal passwords from wireless networks and virtual private networks (VPNs).
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its SkyDrive cloud storage solution for consumers has moved beyond the preview stage.
Microsoft highlighted this month why Internet Information Service 8.0 is a "no brainer" upgrade.
While malware will have to use a new trick to infect systems, Microsoft's solution may hurt those who have dealings overseas.
Microsoft's monthly Security Update arrived today with nine bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. As with the past few months, remote code execution flaws are targeted in the majority of items.
Google was fined $22.5 million by the Federal Trade Commission, which pointed to the company's misrepresentations on privacy protections.
The cloud storage service Dropbox said Tuesday that the increase in spam e-mail sent to users last month was directly related to an employee account compromise.
While Brien had some preconceived concerns with mixing social networking with an Internet search engine, Bing's newest update left him pleasantly surprised.
The Grum botnet, known as the third largest spam ring among security researchers, was crippled on Wednesday after most of the command and control (C&C) servers were shut down.
I'd strongly advise not messing with someone like that.
Microsoft is under investigation by the European Commission for failing to fully abide by its commitment to provide Web browser choice screens.
Yahoo today confirmed the exposure of 450,000 passwords and user names used for personal e-mail accounts.
July's Patch Tuesday marks the second fix for Microsoft's Web browser in two months.
Microsoft released its monthly security rollout today, which includes three fixes rated "critical" and six designated "important."
Losing those that still had infected systems is a good thing for the rest of us.
An estimated 300,000 Mac and PC systems infected with the DNSChanger is set to lose their Internet connection at 12:01 a.m. on Monday.
Microsoft is readying three "critical" bulletins and six "important" items for this month's security update.
A step-by-step guide to help you deploy IIS and default Web sites using PowerShell in less than five minutes!
- By Jason Helmick
- 07/04/2012
Self destruct sequence initiated.
A technical decision floated by Microsoft to address privacy issues in Internet Explorer is drawing comments from U.S. public officials.
If you lie on the Internet, expect to be called out quickly.
Intune 3.0 is now available for download.
Four of the seven bulletins address RCE flaws.
Hackers could access your database in seconds.
Microsoft released its June patch today, which includes three "critical" security items and four "important" bulletins.
Google announced on Thursday that its Chrome browser will be available for testing on the Windows 8 release preview.
IT pros need to be getting their networks ready for Internet Protocol version 6, and MVP Ed Horley describes how to get there.
Hackers recently raided the LinkedIn and eHarmony Web sites and published user password information, software security researchers said this week.
And your eHarmony password accounts, while you're at it.
Internet Protocol version 6 will be turned on permanently by a number of companies around the world on June 6 GMT.
The "release preview" of Windows 8 and the "release candidate" of Windows Server 2012 were made available for download today by Microsoft.
Google announced some Chrome OS improvements on Tuesday.
Is running an older OS really more expensive than migrating to a new version?
Microsoft and other software companies announced last week that they want the Open Data Protocol to become an international industry standard.
Distributing copyright material, good. Hacking Web sites, bad.
An attorney at Mozilla suggested on Wednesday that Microsoft may be moving into antitrust territory by effectually restricting browser choice on Windows RT.
Don't play by the rules, expect consequences.
Make sure your fix works before sending it out the door.
Attackers have begun exploiting two separate flaws in the PHP scripting language found in a large majority of Web sites.
Microsoft's May security update arrived today with three bulletin items classified "critical" and four "important."
Your IP address may be provided those you don't want to have it thanks to a vulnerability.
Avoid confusion by clearly stating your company's policy on employee online monitoring.
The worm continues to infect millions every year.
India takes over the top spot of spamming countries.
One reader thinks there's no going back to privacy now that we live in the age of the Internet.
According to Microsoft, the Conficker worm should continue to be a top concern in enterprise security.
Close to one in 10 spam e-mail originated from India, according to a report by security firm Sophos.
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million in cash to purchase most of the patents that Microsoft recently acquired from AOL.
They'll be taking the law into their own hands.
A hefty fine could be coming Google's way.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently investigating Google for breaching user privacy in Apple's Safari browser, and will decide whether or not to fine the tech company.
With little news on how exactly ISPs will monitor illegal online activity, giving them this much power seems like a bad idea.
This is definitely not an honor I would want.
April's security update arrived today, packing six bulletins for 11 flaws.
Microsoft has agreed to buy more than 800 patents held by AOL Inc. for more than $1 billion in cash.
Apple released an update for Mac OS X users yesterday that addresses a recent Java flaw that has been exploited in the wild by attackers thanks to its inclusion in the BlackHole hacker toolkit.
Just like your OS, Java should be updated as soon as patches are released.
The BlackHole kit, a popular exploit set among hackers, has been updated to take advantage of a recently discovered Java hole that security researchers say many haven't updated yet.
A group calling itself "LulzSec Reborn" released the usernames and passwords of 170,937 subscribers to a military online dating service on Sunday.
Plus, the return of LulzSec.
Internet Explorer 10 contains a new security feature called "enhanced protected mode" that Windows 8 beta testers may soon encounter.
Microsoft recently disrupted a major ring whose use of malware has cost victims $477 million since 2005.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/26/2012
Plus: App makers go in front of the judge, Web app security guidelines.
Raghu Ramakrishnan, who formerly served as Yahoo's chief scientist, has joined Microsoft.
Microsoft on Tuesday described features and concepts behind its Internet Explorer 10 browsers for Windows 8.
Mozilla and Google say they are building browsers that will work with Windows 8, and Opera Software is looking into the possibility too.
Plus: Better user password starts with password policy, Google's Chrome browser hacked at the Pwn2Own contest.
This month's Microsoft security update, released today, features six bulletins, with one labeled as "critical," four "important" and one "moderate."
Government regulation could hamper efforts to get ahead of innovative bad guys, argued a panel of network executive in a Congressional hearing this week.
- By William Jackson
- 03/08/2012
Google's Chrome Web browser fell to multiple exploits on Wednesday at CanSecWest security conference's Pwn2Own contest.
Plus, LulzSec crumbles from the inside, readers respond to proposed changes to Windows 8 password procedure.
Adobe released a patch late Tuesday that targets two vulnerabilities in its Flash Player.
Based on information given from the hacker group LulzSec's leader, the FBI has arrested three members of the hacker group LulzSec and charged two others.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 03/05/2012
Popular search engines continue to direct users to Web sites that serve up malware, researchers say, largely because of techniques that can fool search rankings.
- By William Jackson
- 02/29/2012
Microsoft announced yesterday that it has partnered with secured and managed mobile enterprise company Good Technology to bring encrypted e-mail services to Windows Phone 7.5.
President Obama's administration has presented legislation to protect online privacy that includes a consumer bill of rights and a standardized Do-Not-Track feature for browsers.
- By William Jackson
- 02/24/2012
Both Indiana and Ohio will be the first states to link its in-state academic research networks to the 100-gigabits/sec cross-country network being built by Internet2 and the Energy Department.
- By William Jackson
- 02/21/2012
According to Microsoft, Google circumnavigates Internet Explorer's P3P Privacy Protection feature to track cookies of users.
According to respondents to Arbor Networks' Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, DDoS attacks are targeting IPv6 networks for the first time since the Internet protocol started implementation last year.
Adobe on Wednesday released a security update that fixed seven Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw found by Google researchers.
Cisco Systems wants the European Commission to review its approval of Microsoft's acquisition of Skype.
Microsoft's February Security Update included an antivirus and security software "fix" that told users that Google.com was infected with the Blackhole Exploit Kit.
Anonymous last week took credit for attacks on state servers in Alabama and Mexican government sites.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 02/13/2012
An industry-produced survey suggested that Web site attacks motivated by political considerations may be on the rise.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 02/10/2012
A U.S. program that aims to assure greater identity trust in online transactions has received some research and development funding.
- By William Jackson
- 02/03/2012
Fifteen companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook, have come together to form DMARC.org.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 01/30/2012
Data Privacy Day starts on January 28, but the parties behind it might not be its best advocates, nor even take the concept seriously.
The global launch of IPv6 has been set by the Internet Society for June 6.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2012
After Facebook released the names of those responsible for a malware ring targeting the social network's users, the group's central command and control (C&C) server went offline.
In what the "hacktivism" group Anonymous is calling the largest operation in the group's history, it is targeting government and multimedia sites in response to today's arrests and shut down of the file-sharing site Megauploads.
Jerry Yang is cutting all ties with the company he helped put on the map almost 20 years ago.
Many Web sites will shut down Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), currently under consideration by the U.S. Congress.
NEC Corp. broke an ultra-long haul Internet speed record when it successfully transmitted data at 1.15 terabits/sec over 6,213 miles.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 01/13/2012
Having trouble saving Internet videos to your computer? Brien walks you through a lesser-know Internet Explorer exploit that should get the job done.
For the first time in Microsoft's search business history, the company has claimed a higher U.S. market share than Yahoo, according to a market analysis by comScore.
Applications for new generic Top Level Domain names will be accepted starting Jan. 13 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
- By William Jackson
- 01/10/2012
The FBI is sounding out about a new variant of the Zeus Trojan that could allow hackers to access bank accounts by malicious e-mail.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 01/09/2012
Ray Ozzie, who served five years at Microsoft as chief software architect before retiring in 2010, has let it be known that he is working on a new startup company.
The "Lilupophilupop" SQL injection campaign has infected 1,070,000 URLs as of last weekend, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center.
Microsoft announced today that it will automatically update users' Internet Explorer to the latest version their OS can support.
December's security update arrived today with 13 items to fix in Microsoft products, ranging from Windows to Office, and Internet Explorer too.
Microsoft has come through with Silverlight 5, which was released as a final product today.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/09/2011
Microsoft is preparing lumps of coal for IT pros in the form of 14 bulletin items for next week's release of December's Security bulletin.
Cloud computing vendors promise the world, but if your network isn't up to the task, the resulting speed, bandwidth and latency issues may doom your project from the start.
A newly introduced bill that aims to encourage the sharing of Internet security threat intelligence information between government and industry has gone to the House Intelligence Committee for markup.
- By William Jackson
- 12/02/2011
Microsoft today released the fourth version of its Internet Explorer 10 platform preview Web browser prototype.
The most common software exploit type in the first half of 2011 was associated with vulnerabilities in Oracle's Java Runtime Environment (JRE), according to a Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, released last month.
Federal authorities seized control of 150 Web sites known to sell knockoff products today.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 11/27/2011
The World Wide Web Consortium has released a draft standard for establishing do-not-track preferences of Web users.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 11/17/2011
An academic study found that various tools designed to provide users with online privacy protections, including Microsoft's, were too difficult to use.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 11/14/2011
Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo are collaborating on Web-based display ads by cross-selling their inventories.
Adobe this week announced a financial restructuring, a 750-worker jobs cut and the phase out its browser-based Flash Player for mobile devices.
Redmond doubles down on its emerging client OS, which promises to support legacy and "Metro style" applications on two different hardware platforms.
- By Kurt Mackie, Jeffrey Schwartz, Keith Ward, Doug Barney
- 11/05/2011
Close to 50 industrial companies were attacked in recent months by a readily available Trojan designed for information gathering.
Lawyers for Microsoft have come to an out-of-court settlement with Czech Republic-based Dotfree Group and its owner over involvement in the Kelihos botnet ring.
A newly discovered hole in Google Chrome's built-in sandbox protection could lead to a remote code execution, according to Acros Security.
Google reportedly is seeking to purchase Yahoo via private equity-firm funding.
Yahoo may be under acquisition consideration again by Microsoft, despite a recent joke by CEO Steve Ballmer.
A Trojan apparently being used to gather information for a future Stuxnet-style attack, was found in European industrial systems, according to Symantec.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 10/20/2011
Microsoft today released its October Security Bulletin, which includes eight bulletins that address 23 vulnerabilities -- with two bulletins labeled "critical" and six "important."
The European Commission approved Microsoft's acquisition of Skype this week, paving the way for Microsoft to integrate Skype's voice-over-IP technologies and services.
Continuing a 2011 trend of decreasing market share, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, while still leading the pack, fell to 54.39 percent of all desktop Internet users.
Wireless LANs lag on security compared with wired networks, the National Institute of Standards and Technology advises, in a new Guide.
- By William Jackson
- 09/29/2011
Migrating from Internet Explorer 6 to a modern browser can be faster, cheaper and easier than you think -- if you know the right tricks.
- By Chris Jackson
- 09/28/2011
Microsoft released Security Advisory 2588513 yesterday, which advises users of the threat of attack caused by a flaw in the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 3.0 and Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0.
Final rules have been adopted and published for the Federal Communications Commission Net Neutrality policy, which goes into effect Nov. 20.
- By William Jackson
- 09/26/2011
Six months after Microsoft, in conjunction with local and federal law enforcement, began targeting the Rustock spybot network, it is now handing its case and evidence to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Attacks based on an implementation flaw of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cryptographic protocol will be demonstrated on Friday by two security researchers.
Microsoft re-released Security Advisory (2607712) yesterday to replace a previous flawed update that failed to include all blocked Web certificates from a Dutch certificate authority firm.
Worldwide access to the Internet will hit 40 percent by 2015, with the manner in which it is accessed shifting drastically, particularly in the United States.
Sony appointed a former Microsoft executive, Philip Reitinger, to a new position overseeing infrastructure security efforts.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was removed from her position by the company's board of directors, according to a Tuesday announcement by the company.
Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have revoked all digital certificates from Dutch certificate authority firm DigiNotar as a security measure.
Google on Tuesday released a "stable" plug-in for Internet Explorer that switches on Google Chrome technologies.
Microsoft claimed today that it has disabled code used on its Web sites that allegedly could track users as part of a "supercookie" tracking scheme.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser once again topped the list of browsers providing the greatest protection against socially engineered threats, according to NSS Lab
The August patch is a bulky one as Microsoft released 13 fixes today.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2011
A security researcher reported a flaw in advanced persistent threat attempts used to steal intellectual property in recent high-profile breaches.
- By William Jackson
- 08/05/2011
A single command and control server conducted attacks against corporations and government agencies over the last five years.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 08/05/2011
The browser wars took a new turn as Apple's Safari 5 browser gained ground in a July survey.
Upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 to IE 9 can represent a cost benefit to organizations, according to a June Microsoft-commissioned study.
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley says that just like Ballmer, Bing isn't going anywhere. Here's why.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 07/26/2011
Google this week announced that it will return a malware notice with search results for users deemed to have infected systems.
- By William Jackson
- 07/22/2011
Microsoft today announced a cash reward of $250,000 to anyone providing information that leads to the criminal conviction of the Rustock botnet perpetrators. according to a blog post.
Bing, SharePoint, Search Server and FAST: Redmond's hodgepodge of search solutions lacks a cohesive strategy, observers say, leaving enterprises confused and competitors primed to take advantage.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- 07/05/2011
The death of Microsoft's free consumer home power-monitoring service, Hohm, mostly resulted from its organization under the Windows Embedded Business segment, according to one of the developers on the project.
Microsoft today released new information on the Rustock botnet ring, showing decreased infection rates since law enforcement actions took place.
Internet Explorer 10 platform preview 2 was announced on Wednesday. Microsoft said this preview's main purpose is to demonstarte its HTML 5 test progress so far.
Google Labs quietly released Swiffy yesterday, a development tool that allows SWF files (used in Flash elements) to be converted to HTML 5.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's business practices, an announcement by the company acknowledged today.
The FBI this week announced the arrest of two people suspected of being involved in a "scareware" scheme that extorted $74 million from about one million computer users over the last three years.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/24/2011
Google on Monday announced the availability of a test version of its Google Chrome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer that installs without requiring administrative privileges.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced what President Rod Beckstrom called "one of the biggest changes ever to the Domain Name System" at the opening of its 41st annual meeting, being held in Singapore.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2011
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission indicated on Friday that Microsoft received U.S. governmental approval to buy Skype, estimated at $8.5 billion.
The use of Windows 7 at companies has more than doubled over the past year, but that hasn't meant correspondingly good news for Microsoft's sliding Internet Explorer browser market share, according to a study published this month by Forrester Research.
Microsoft today pronounced World IPv6 Day to be a "success," reporting no incidents after enabling IPv6 access on some of its Web sites.
The hacker group Lulz Security has claimed responsibility for breaking into the U.S. Senate's Web site over the weekend.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 06/15/2011
According to Turkey's government news organization, Anadolu Agency, the Turkish authorities had arrested 32 Anonymous members in 12 cities in connection with attacks on government Web sites, Computerworld reported.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/14/2011
What some security pros are calling the beginning of a long hot summer for Windows security jumped off in earnest with the June patch that features 16 bulletins -- nine "critical" and seven deemed "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/14/2011
Wednesday's World IPv6 Day came and went with only a handful of reported problems. Observers say this is a good sign that the Internet is capable of handling the new protocols.
- By William Jackson
- 06/10/2011
Fujitsu expects to begin offering commercial cloud services in August from its datacenter in Japan that uses Microsoft's Windows Azure platform.
The world will move to Internet Protocol version 6 for one day on Wednesday, June 8, but just a small percentage of Internet users might be adversely affected.
Spearphishing and malware attacks via mobile systems, particularly targeting the Android platform, are on the rise, according to a report from software security firm McAfee.
- By William Jackson
- 06/06/2011
According to Google, Jinan, China-based hackers accessed hundreds of users, including U.S. government officials, military personnel, journalists, Chinese political activists and officials of several Asian countries, most of them in South Korea.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/02/2011
According to NetMarketShare, a Web tracking and analytics service provided by Net Applications, Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer finished off May with 12.0 percent of the worldwide browser market.
The W3C announced on Wednesday that the HTML 5 Working Draft has reached its Last Call milestone.
According to Rosario Valotta, an Italian security researcher, a security breach of Internet Explorer could occur if a hacker hijacks session cookies from users' visits to a Web site.
Google today has released Chrome version 11.0.696.71 which fixes four vulnerabilities in its browser.
Free software is now available that enables Internet connections to be shared using Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced that a final legal judgment against Microsoft, rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns, expired on May 12.
Most business networks are not ready for the transition to IPv6, according to a poll conducted by Ipswitch Inc.
These technologies may not have been Microsoft originals, but today they bear the Redmond stamp.
Google is speaking out after Monday's news that a French security firm had found a zero-day exploit in Chrome's code.
French security firm Vupen claimed today that it discovered a zero-day exploit of the Google Chrome Web browser running on Windows.
Microsoft fielded some questions on Monday in a Webinar on Internet Explorer 9, focusing on what IT managers should know about the new Web browser.
Controversy over the control of IPv4 numbers was somewhat diffused this month after Microsoft entered into a legacy agreement with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) over IPv4 numbers purchased from Nortel.
- By William Jackson
- 05/02/2011
Limitations by ISPs could foil backup service plans.
Microsoft is gaining the upper hand over problems in Internet Explorer 9 traced to browser add-ons, the company announced today.
According to an Oak Ridge National Laboratory spokeswoman, a "very sophisticated" piece of malware apparently designed to steal technical information from the Energy Department lab's network caused laboratory officials to shut down its e-mail and Internet access last week.
- By William Jackson
- 04/20/2011
Microsoft's MIX 11 fanfare last week included the new IE 10 platform preview, but no mention was made at that time that it won't run on Windows Vista.
Individuals responsible for the Coreflood botnet and its malware face legal scrutiny after the U.S. government announced lawsuits on Wednesday.
Microsoft today announced the first platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 today at its MIX 11 Web developer event, ongoing this week.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it conditionally approved Google's acquisition bid for ITA Software Inc.
Epsilon, a worldwide marketing service firm, reported on Friday that its clients' customer data, used in e-mail campaigns, have been compromised.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had filed a complaint with European Commission against Google's search-ad practices.
Nine fraudulent digital certificates are circulating and could be in use by hackers, Microsoft warned yesterday.
In conjunction with federal law enforcement agencies, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced on Thursday that it had helped pulled the plug on the Rustock spybot network.
Microsoft pointed to install resources following the release of IE 9, which was downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours.
Underscoring that cloud computing will be integral to its strategy moving forward, Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to launch a public cloud service, company CEO Leo Apotheker said Monday at the company's annual analyst meeting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2011
IT organizations struggling with upgrading their Internet Explorer 6-based Web apps may be interested in a new tool released today by Browsium Inc.
Microsoft's one-year effort developing Internet Explorer 9 is coming to fruition as it readies its browser release tonight.
Adobe has released a security advisory on a "critical" vulnerability in its Flash Player that could cause a system crash and allow for remote access by an attacker.
Microsoft plans to release Internet Explorer 9 on Monday, which will be the final product, or release-to-Web version, of the browser.
Competition surrounding video codec technologies is getting a second look by the U.S. Department of Justice and the California State Attorney General's office, according to a story published last week by The Wall Street Journal.
Microsoft wants to kill Internet Explorer 6, or at least squeeze down the use of its browser to one percent worldwide.
Microsoft's tracking protection approach used in its Web browser will be reviewed at the Worldwide Web Consortium.
Cisco is calling it quits on its cloud-based e-mail service that has been available for testing for the past year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/23/2011
Google delivered a truckload of free Cr-48 laptops to Astoria High School in Astoria, Ore. earlier this month
From Codebook to XAX, here's five upcoming Microsoft technologies Mary-Jo Foley says to watch out for.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 02/11/2011
Microsoft today issued the release candidate (RC) version of its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser.
Patch Tuesday reminds us once again that hackers will always be a step ahead. Plus: Outlook issue to be fixed out of band; Intel's intentions with McAfee buy seem questionable.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/09/2011
As expected, Microsoft today released 12 security bulletins in its February security update, targeting more than 20 software vulnerabilities.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/08/2011
Microsoft confirmed today that members of the Internet Explorer team will be in San Francisco for a news event this week, likely the launch of the release candidate (RC) version of Internet Explorer 9.
Microsoft outlined desktop virtualization tips late last week that IT pros and developers can use to test the compatibility of their Web sites on a single PC.
On Feb. 3, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the last remaining Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) IP addresses had been allocated, although it may take a few months before the effects of this event trickle down to Internet users.
Microsoft began 2011 with a light touch, but IT pros can expect a decidedly heavy February security update next Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/03/2011
Google is looking to reward those who can find a vulnerability in its Chrome browser.
Microsoft admitted to copying search information in response to complaints from No. 1 search giant Google.
Hackers go after your browsing sessions. Plus: Conficker worm is gone, but not forgotten; unrest in Egypt worries Microsoft, Cisco.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/31/2011
Microsoft released Security Advisory 2501696 in response a scripting vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects all versions of Windows.
Add transactional e-mail hosting and distribution to the list of services offered by Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2011
Microsoft today highlighted some of its interoperability accomplishments reflected with the release of the open source Drupal 7 content management (CM) system.
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will be stepping down from that position while continuing to serve the company as executive chairman.
Version 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week.
The Worldwide Web Consortium today unfurled an HTML 5 logo as part of an overall publicity campaign.
Google announced on Tuesday that it plans to support open video codecs in its Chrome Web browser going forward, and it will drop support for the H.264 video codec.
As expected, Microsoft today released two security bulletins in its January security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/11/2011
Microsoft's latest browser isn't a mere upgrade, and here's why that's a good thing.
Google's Chrome browser finished December with a worldwide market share of 10 percent of all Internet browser usage, according to Net Applications' NetMarketShare data.
Microsoft's security team announced late last month that it is investigating two proof-of-concept flaws in Microsoft's Web-related software.
Ryan Gavin, senior director of Internet Explorer, talks about the company's direction with IE 9 and how the browser will affect IT professionals.
From speed to UI to HTML 5,Redmond magazine readers share what they like -- and don't -- about Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 beta, and how it compares to the previous versions.
Microsoft today opened a test site for Web developers that shows off promising yet unstable HTML 5 code.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 and 9 Web browsers demonstrated better protection against socially engineered exploits than other browsers, as described in a September NSS Labs report.
Google announced today that it has rolled out enhanced controls for IT pros who install and maintain Google Chrome Web browsers within an organization.
Plus: Hackers compromise Gawker media sites; Google and Redmond ad malware investigated; Symantec takes a look at the problems you'll be facing in 2011.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/14/2010
Windows IT pros this December find themselves unwrapping a huge package of security updates ahead of Christmas directly from Microsoft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/14/2010
Microsoft last week released the first service pack for its 2010 Forefront messaging and collaboration management product.
Microsoft has joined a coalition of companies that is fighting Google's plans to acquire Cambridge, Mass.-based ITA Software.
Interval Licensing LLC, which represents intellectual property claims by Microsoft's cofounder, Paul G. Allen, has hit a legal setback.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced an upcoming privacy feature for its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser.
Google made three announcements today concerning its consumer Web efforts.
Plus: An eighth of malware attacks come from USB devices, scareware instances are growing.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/07/2010
Cisco has taken two significant steps in space-based communications, with the first-ever upgrade of an IP router aboard a commercial satellite while in orbit, and the first voice over IP call made from a satellite that did not require any ground-based infrastructure to route the call.
- By Dan Rowinski
- 12/06/2010
One of the cables published by WikiLeaks late last month cites U.S. diplomatic concerns over a Chinese software security company with access to Windows source code.
Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/06/2010
The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said yesterday.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/02/2010
Microsoft today released the seventh "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9.
Microsoft on Monday announced that it had rolled out two "new" security baselines for use with its Security Compliance Management tool, plus new setting packs for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.
Plus: IE 8 still safer than IE 6, 7; Zeus 2.0 escaping MSRT detection.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/09/2010
Microsoft's November security update arrived today, and it's something less than a Thanksgiving meal.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/09/2010
A line of pixels drawn by Google Maps between the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica is being used as an excuse in an old territorial dispute.
After two straight gargantuan rollouts, IT pros are getting a break with November's patch load.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2010
Microsoft, in a security advisory released today, is warning users of Internet Explorer vulnerability that could allow remote code execution by hackers.
DLL fix might still leave Windows users vulnerable. Plus: Bing encryption being considered; Google gets serious about mobile security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/02/2010
Google is suing the Interior Department for allegedly excluding Google's products in a request for quotation the agency issued on Aug. 30.
- By Michael Hardy
- 11/02/2010
Microsoft released IE 9 Platform Preview 6, the latest test version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9, yesterday.
Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/28/2010
Microsoft added to its search advertising partnership deal with Yahoo by consolidating the ad platform used by Web advertisers in U.S. and Canadian markets.
Fake Microsoft Security Essentials alert snags some users. Plus: social network add-on -- for hackers; new SLA troubleshooting tool.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/26/2010
New report shows some real progress in killing Zbot. Plus: Adobe hides PDFs in the sandbox; U.S. talks with Aussies on security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/18/2010
Should Microsoft revisit its patching frequency? Plus: Admins even busier, if they're tackling Adobe and Oracle fixes; IT study exposes IT security problems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/12/2010
The New York Times reported today that the heads of Microsoft and Adobe held a secret meeting to discuss the acquisition of Adobe, among other matters.
Microsoft's forthcoming October security update will be another historic rollout.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/07/2010
Internet Explorer use dropped to 49.4 percent in October, according to Web analytics company StatCounter in a chart for this month.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went to Europe this week to help sell the Internet cloud, a key Microsoft business area.
An out-of-band patch tries to catch hackers off-guard. Plus: Symantec looks more closely at Stuxnet; Twitter bug gives Microsoft the jitters.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/05/2010
Microsoft last week announced the availability of Windows Live Essentials 2011, a free consumer suite of applications designed to connect Windows users to the Internet cloud.
The beta of IE 9 is more than just a browser for Microsoft -- it's a direct shot in its war against Google, and it shows.
The community of volunteers that developed the OpenOffice.org project have split off from Oracle and formed a new structure called The Document Foundation.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/28/2010
The Obama administration is poised to ask for new Internet regulations that could potentially open any and all electronic communication to scrutiny.
- By Michael Hardy
- 09/28/2010
Microsoft released an "important" patch to address an information disclosure security vulnerability associated with ASP.NET systems.
The state of Minnesota has embraced Microsoft's Internet cloud services by agreeing to an application outsourcing deal.
Microsoft on Thursday announced some new milestones for its browser-based Office Web Applications.
Microsoft today released BizTalk Server 2010 to its hardware manufacturing partners, which means that products will ship to customers soon.
Despite the excitement of last week's beta debut of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft wants organizations moving to Windows 7 to use its Internet Explorer 8 browser.
Late on Monday, Microsoft published additional information about an ASP.NET flaw, which is now being exploited.
Internet Explorer 9, released on Wednesday in beta form, doesn't talk to strangers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/16/2010
With the release of its IE 9 beta, Microsoft on Wednesday promised that Web surfing would, from here on out, be about the sites users visit and not about the browser.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/15/2010
The Web site IEBest.com posted late yesterday that it plans to release IE 9 to its readers, two days before Microsoft plans to release it.
Microsoft last week released the latest version of a free tool designed to help ward off attacks to legacy software.
Microsoft updated its security advisory today concerning a dynamic link library issue and published a "Fix it" solution to help address the problem.
The Microsoft Internet Explorer team on Wednesday described some of the decisions being made to accommodate the ECMAScript 5 spec in Internet Explorer 9.
Microsoft today announced that it has completed integrating its Bing search engine technology into Yahoo's U.S. and Canadian Web portals.
Microsoft issued a security advisory this evening about an old hacking trick that could affect Windows systems via remote servers.
A flaw with curious name, "binary planting," grows out of iTunes on Windows. There's a workaround for that.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/23/2010
Better click on these links before Wired magazine gets done unplugging the Internet.
The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced a new Web Performance Working Group that aims to more accurately measure Web app performance times.
Most Internet users have long been aware that the actual download speeds they get from their Internet connections are somewhat slower than advertised.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 08/19/2010
This month, Internet Explorer turns 15 years old. Happy birthday, IE!
Microsoft this week provided notice of some upcoming product updates and betas to expect in the coming months.
Google and Verizon today issued a statement on U.S. broadband policy, describing an approach that would permit differentiated services.
Plus: Adobe readies Reader patch; Google engineer may get formal recognition for Windows flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2010
Microsoft today released the fourth "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next-generation Web browser.
Microsoft this week touted global market share gains for Internet Explorer 8 over rival browsers, citing July data from Net Applications.
Microsoft releases fix early due to exploits out in the wild. Plus: Microsoft, Adobe team up on flaw research; IE 8 privacy controls handling debated.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/03/2010
The search giant Google and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency are investing in a company working to track Web-browsing behavior.
The international registries that allocate IP addresses say only about 6 percent of IPv4 addresses remain available, and with an uptick in demand since the beginning of the year, the pool could be exhausted in about six months.
- By William Jackson
- 08/02/2010
Amped up 'responsible disclosure' gets toned down to 'coordinated vulnerability disclosure.' Plus: Redmond won't pay for bugs, and hacking has its own rewards.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/26/2010
After a year of working on security steps to comply with federal government regulations, Google today launched Google Apps for Government.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/26/2010
Dell Kace today rolled out a free browser virtualization solution that can help protect against Web threats.
Stuxnet is on the attack. Plus: old-school encryption makes a comeback; sniffing out threats, more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/19/2010
Faculty members and campus IT staff aren't exactly in agreement on the necessity of some technologies in education.
The majority of Internet security threats come from unpatched vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat/Reader and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Plus: Microsoft cozies up to Russia, China on security; virtualization's security shortcomings.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/12/2010
China renewed Google's licenses as an Internet content provider for that country, according to Google's chief legal officer.
The National Security Agency's (NSA) new program to shield the networks of privately owned utilities and other critical infrastructure companies has caused some people to fear it's a step toward a surveillance state or a government power grab.
- By Amber Corrin
- 07/08/2010
Plus: Developer ignoring DEP and ASLR at peril; what the global 'spamscape' looks like.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/06/2010
IE market share rose past the 60 percent mark after two straight months of decline.
We take a look at all the various sources of data Microsoft collects from customers, how it stores and uses that data, and how its use of it stacks up against Google and other competitors.
IE9 promises native support for video and scalable vector graphics, but IT organizations likely will depend on Flash and Silverlight in the near term.
For years, Microsoft has insisted that the browser is an integral part of the operating system, yet the company's current strategies with IE 6 and IE 9 make that argument an absurdity.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 07/01/2010
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the third "platform preview" release of its Internet Explorer 9 browser prototype.
As the Obama administration and Congress propose various measures to improve the nation's cybersecurity, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is planning to spend "multiple billions of dollars" on cybersecurity research.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 06/23/2010
The Obama administration plans to release late this week a draft of a new national strategy for improving capabilities to identify and authenticate people, organizations and infrastructure in cyberspace, the White House's top cyber official said today.
Big targets are always easy to hit. Perhaps no company in the modern age of commerce knows this better than Microsoft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/21/2010
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released two draft publications as part of its Cryptographic Key Management Project, an effort to help agencies in their adoption of more advanced cryptographic algorithms and the management of stronger keys.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2010
What do the FBI, Microsoft and the American Bankers Association all have in common? Answer: they're all collaborating against online fraud.
Microsoft launched its free Windows Live versions of Office Web Apps on Monday.
Microsoft today released 10 fixes in its June security update, with three deemed "critical" and seven considered "important" to patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/08/2010
Plus: Ten for June's Patch Tuesday; MS responds to Google Banning Windows; Adobe encounters another critical security flaw.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/07/2010
Three "critical" and seven "important" fixes will be coming your way.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/04/2010
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and industry are developing a National Cyber Range to test network attack-and-defend strategies.
- By Barry Rosenberg
- 06/02/2010
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser showed a U.S. market share gain in May compared with competing browsers.
Google restricts the use of Windows by its employees, according a story by the Financial Times on Monday.
Big Blue bolsters WebSphere with B-to-B transaction processing platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/24/2010
A report issued on Wednesday by Forrester Research chronicles the declining use of Windows XP, as well as Internet Explorer 6, as staples of the corporate desktop.
Google announced on Wednesday that it has released its VP8 video codec into open source under the WebM open Web media project.
Microsoft released the second platform preview of Internet Explorer 9 for review by testers.
Windows 7 now has nearly 15 percent of the operating system market for business users, outshining Vista.
- By Natasha Watkins
- 05/04/2010
Two new off-cycle patches follow the usual Patch Tuesday release. Plus: Looking to third-party app security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/03/2010
Microsoft on Monday provided additional clarification on why it will support the H.264 video codec in Internet Explorer 9.
Microsoft voiced support for the H.264 video codec in future versions of Internet Explorer, while affirming Adobe Flash.
Microsoft issued a security advisory on Thursday for a vulnerability in two SharePoint products.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/30/2010
Microsoft is preparing a security update in June for the IE XSS filter in Internet Explorer 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/27/2010
It may not be Tony Soprano on the Web, but a new security report finds that wise-guy hackers have become increasingly organized.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/21/2010
This month is among the busiest, with patches coming from Microsoft, Adobe and others. Plus: Black Hat Tech Con tackles Web-originated attacks; looking for motives in the cyberspying world.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/12/2010
Even the Dali Lama isn't safe from hacking, according to a report released on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/08/2010
A federal appeals court told the Federal Communications Commission that it lacks broadband Internet regulatory authority.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/06/2010
With April's planned patch releases, Microsoft sets pace to exceed 2009's fixes. Plus: Conficker, a year later; how you set admin rights may be key to overall security, says one vendor.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/05/2010
Microsoft this week joined a coalition to encourage Congress to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
- By Natasha Watkins
- 04/02/2010
A closer look at the Windows Azure Platform and the Business Productivity Online Suite.
- By Karen Forster
- 04/01/2010
Microsoft today released its second "critical" off-cycle patch for Internet Explorer this year.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/30/2010
Even a fire-proof safe needs additional protective measures, and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 is no different.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/29/2010
Attacks on government systems, U.S. interests on the rise.
- By Amber Corrin
- 03/29/2010
Microsoft has not been swayed by Google's change of direction with regard to filtering search results in China
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/25/2010
After following China's national laws in the past, Google has decided to stop filtering its search engine in the country.
Symantec Corp. rolled out a new hosted service today that warns organizations of attacks on their Web sites as the attacks are happening.
Microsoft announced the availability of an Internet Explorer 9 "platform preview" at Tuesday's MIX10 keynote address.
The Jericho Forum proposes security vendors self-assess and certify their security capabilities. Plus: Microsoft might release IE off-cycle update; Koobface shows itself, again.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/16/2010
Google last week provided an additional means for users to test JavaScript performance in Web browsers.
Microsoft published a workaround for an in-the-wild vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, described last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/15/2010
Researchers have developed a technique they say could help identify where the bad elements are hanging out online.
- By William Jackson
- 03/11/2010
A Microsoft-funded report found that IE 8 outperformed four other browsers in protecting against socially engineered malware.
The debate continues over an Internet taxation framework. Plus: Report on IE and Firefox bug issues; Small number of Microsoft patches for March.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/09/2010
Google took a step toward helping Microsoft Office users collaborate better over the Web by acquiring DocVerse on Friday.
The heavyweight lineup of government representatives at last week's RSA Conference raised many questions -- but few answers -- about how best to fight cybercrime.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/08/2010
Microsoft cited progress on IE 8 use on Tuesday, suggesting that more Web developers are trusting the user experience with its newest browser.
Microsoft will start providing a browser "choice screen" to Windows users in Europe this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/02/2010
Microsoft described a zero-day vulnerability involving some older Windows versions and VBScript when used with Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/01/2010
A year after launching its partner program aimed at offering Google Apps to enterprise customers, Google this week said it is approaching 1,000 resellers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/24/2010
A marketing report released this week profiled two important Microsoft products, with mixed results.
- By Anne Watkins
- 02/23/2010
Microsoft plans to begin sending out a test version of a Web browser-selection screen to Windows users in Europe, the company announced on Friday.
Microsoft and Yahoo got approvals from U.S. and European regulators to proceed with their search-advertising business deal.
A new study describes the top 25 programming errors that can open up security holes in software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2010
Microsoft plans to talk about Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX 10 event for Web developers next month.
Microsoft on Tuesday warned of a "vulnerability" associated with two protocols commonly used to establish secure client-server communications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/10/2010
IT shops using Active Directory rights management services will need to install an update before Feb. 22, according to Microsoft.
The company said it intends to target a future release of its Buzz social networking service, launched on Tuesday, at the enterprise.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/10/2010
Microsoft today signaled that a hefty batch of security fixes will arrive on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/04/2010
Microsoft released yet another security advisory for Internet Explorer on Wednesday, mostly applying to Windows XP users.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/04/2010
Support for Internet Explorer 6 appears to be dwindling after Microsoft's Web browser was exploited for well-publicized attacks on Google and other companies.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/02/2010
Plus: Google phases out IE 6 support; Azure shines spotlight on cloud computing security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/02/2010
Security firm says it has found more holes in the browser, but they're holding off on the specifics. Plus: the IE patch took some time; China denies responsibility over Google attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/26/2010
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates downplayed Chinese government Internet censorship when asked about the matter in a Monday ABC TV interview.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed the company's position with respect to China and commented on the attacks on Google's network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/22/2010
A researcher for SecureWorks says he has found evidence supporting Google's claim that last month's attacks on the company's systems originated in China.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 01/21/2010
Microsoft issued a cumulative "out-of-band" security patch on Thursday for a bug in all versions of Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/21/2010
The organization that oversees global allocation of IP addresses announced that less than 10 percent of the available IPv4 address space remains unallocated.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2010
Microsoft on Monday announced moves to reduce data retention times for Bing Internet search queries.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/20/2010
IBM expanded its vision for bringing social networking to the enterprise with a preview of new technology at Lotusphere 2010.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2010
Plus: Google attacks may originate from China; password complexity not a complete deterrent.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/19/2010
Microsoft provided more advice about a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability exploited by hackers last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/19/2010
Microsoft continues to investigate the first zero-day exploit of 2010 surrounding Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/15/2010
Microsoft plans to continue to operate its search service in China, despite Google's recent suggestions that it might exit that market.
Microsoft on Tuesday released a free search engine optimization tool for Web sites.
Microsoft is joining the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group.
After a year of dramatic growth, Google's Chrome has become the third most popular browser behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.
- By Anne Watkins
- 01/06/2010
Microsoft denied that its Internet Information Services Web server software is subject to new-found security vulnerability.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/05/2010
Plus, Adobe may surpass Office for most security vulnerabilities; Chrome a growing target for hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/05/2010
From Twitter twits to phone-phobes, Doug lets fly with his technological pet peeves.
Microsoft has given up trying to out-Google Google and is trying instead to carve out a new search niche.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 01/01/2010
Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling its Microsoft Word software starting Jan. 11.
Microsoft provided more details about its settlement with the EC, particularly with regard to interoperability agreements
The European Commission on Wednesday ended its antitrust suit against Microsoft, accepting Redmond's agreement to allow users the choice of making any browser their default Web interface.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/16/2009
Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that one of its software vendors copied code from a microblogging application called Plurk.
Microsoft formed a new organization within its Server and Tools Business last week called the Server and Cloud Division (SCD).
- By Anne Watkins
- 12/14/2009
While social networking has opened new possibilities for communicating over the Internet, it also gives hackers more vectors through which to attack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/11/2009
Plus: Patch Tuesday fixes IE zero-day flaw; third party takes up XP's cause.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/08/2009
As expected, the last Windows Security Update of 2009 will include six security bulletins -- three dubbed "critical" and three labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/08/2009
Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the legal details of their proposed search-advertising deal.
There's no rest for the weary, as Microsoft is planning to release six security bulletins for this coming Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2009
Microsoft announced enhancements to its Bing Internet search service on Wednesday, including a new Bing Maps beta.
A Microsoft executive fielded questions about the company's Internet search-advertising business at Credit Suisse's Technology Conference on Tuesday.
Microsoft's new search engine has the consumer goods, but does it do enough for loyal enterprise customers?
- By David Barney
- 12/01/2009
Many malware episodes begin innocently enough.
- By Joern Wettern
- 12/01/2009
Plus: Microsoft patches can result in black screens; when pandas attack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/30/2009
A new zero-day Internet Explorer bug awaits IT pros returning from the holiday break.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/30/2009
Google's cloud platform will take center stage in L.A. after Microsoft's old-school pitch fails audition.
We speak with Stefan Weitz, director of search at Microsoft, to find out where Bing came from, what it does and where it's going.
- By David Barney
- 11/29/2009
Google has fixed bugs in Google Chrome Frame, including one that Microsoft called out as a security problem.
Google, Microsoft and Amazon pitched their respective cloud offerings during the keynote panel session at Interop New York Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/20/2009
Google's previously under-wraps operating system is now available to developers as open source code, the company announced on Thursday.
A year ago, at the 2008 Professional Developers Conference, Steven Sinofsky earned plaudits when he offered a mea culpa for the mess left by Vista.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/18/2009
Systems with proper security and network controls can withstand about 80 percent of known cyberattacks, said a senior National Security Agency official.
Plus: hackers try to bypass Windows 7's WAT; Internet Explorer attack can hurt the kernel.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/17/2009
DNSSEC adoption is accelerating, but this good news is offset by the growing number of unmanaged embedded name servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/16/2009
Microsoft and Sophos are at it again, this time arguing about Windows 7's user account control feature.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2009
Microsoft's efforts on combating server-side Web vulnerabilities, as well as patching its Internet Explorer client, may be paying off.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2009
Cisco's announcement of a new hosted e-mail service is causing high-pressure rumblings in the cloud computing space.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/12/2009
Google described its efforts in the enterprise software space, including its e-mail contract win with the city of Los Angeles.
Microsoft rolled out six security fixes in its November patch on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/10/2009
The sharp decline in spam volumes that attended last November's shutdown of the notorious McColo hosting provider seems to have come to an end.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/10/2009
Despite recent initiatives, the possibility of a machine-readable Web extolled by World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee still faces many obstacles, he admitted recently at a conference.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/02/2009
The Internet is full of blowhards, but sometimes they're just...misunderstood.
The White House's recent deployment of the Drupal open source content management system for its Web site has created a stir among industry observers.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/29/2009
The evolving threat landscape means government must work more closely with commercial industry players, analysts say.
- By Amber Corrin
- 10/26/2009
A severe flu outbreak could send millions home to telecommute, possibly disrupting networks vital to the nation's security and financial well-being.
- By William Jackson
- 10/26/2009
Repeated spikes of viruses that are not being detected by major anti-virus engines were observed during the last quarter, apparently the result of hit-and-run tactics by virus writers.
- By William Jackson
- 10/23/2009
The Federal Communications Commission has released the drafts of proposed rules that would codify the principles of network neutrality.
- By William Jackson
- 10/23/2009
Spam-based malware traffic increased dramatically last month, surging by 900 percent between August and September.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/20/2009
Plus: Firefox opens up to .NET; gauging Security Essentials' enterprise chances.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/19/2009
Scaring computer users into buying and installing potentially malicious security programs is becoming a big business, according to a study of rogue software by Symantec.
- By William Jackson
- 10/19/2009
Microsoft has devised a way to introduce new PC buyers to its Office productivity suite through a "Starter" edition.
The European Commission on Wednesday took another step closer to resolving its Web browser competition complaint against Microsoft.
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding on Tuesday, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
Numerous Hotmail users got some unwanted exposure over the past weekend. Plus, SQL injection attacks are making a quiet return.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/06/2009
Government adoption of Vista has been anemic at best. But the prospects seem much better for Windows 7.
- By Brian Robinson
- 10/01/2009
Eight identity management products from seven vendors have earned interoperability certification for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) in this summer's round of interoperability testing.
- By William Jackson
- 09/30/2009
Networking threats are migrating from the network perimeter to the interior and up the networking stack, often making older firewall technologies and policies inadequate.
- By William Jackson
- 09/28/2009
Microsoft on Friday announced that Release Candidate 0 of Forefront Unified Access Gateway is now available for testing.
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
Lawyers for Microsoft and Toronto-based i4i LP concluded oral arguments before the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Microsoft last week filed a civil lawsuit against five companies for allegedly spreading malicious online advertising.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/22/2009
Google's acquisition of open source security technology firm reCaptcha could help the search giant's Internet security, except against persistent hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/18/2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced that it had commenced an invitation-only public technical preview of Microsoft Office Web Apps.
The next generation of Internet protocols has some security features built into it, but IPv6 is not inherently more secure than the current IPv4 now in use.
- By William Jackson
- 09/17/2009
Microsoft's chief financial officer for the Online Services Division fielded questions at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Hackers are exploiting unpatched applications on Web servers and client computers to infect entire networks, according to report released Tuesday.
- By William Jackson
- 09/16/2009
Microsoft executive Charles Songhurst answered questions on Microsoft's business strategy at the Jefferies Annual Technology Conference in New York on Tuesday.
The all-critical patch release of hotfixes served up by Redmond Tuesday hadn't even cooled off yet when Microsoft issued yet another security advisory on late Tuesday night.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its September security patch, which is notable for containing five "critical" security bulletins.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/08/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a test version of an extension that's designed to help speed up PHP-based Web applications running on Windows platforms.
For the second time this year, Microsoft issued a security advisory for possible vulnerabilities in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/02/2009
New developments -- Microsoft's search deal with Yahoo! and Google's planned introduction of an OS -- are ratcheting up competition for IT dollars between the two rivals.
Microsoft's upcoming Forefront Security for Exchange 2010 is an anti-spam solution that actually works.
- By Joern Wettern
- 09/01/2009
After the Vista debacle, seven could just be the lucky number for Windows. We review seven features of Windows 7 that could make the newest version of the OS the best Microsoft has produced in years.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 09/01/2009
Two of the most troubling new threats are in the Domain Name System and Secure Sockets Layer, services users have trusted for years.
- By William Jackson
- 08/31/2009
The Social Security Administration will to test Microsoft's HealthVault software for its disability determination process.
- By Alice Lipowicz
- 08/31/2009
Zoho is making further inroads in the online office market with the introduction of a unified log-in mechanism that allows users to use their Google and Yahoo ID to access Zoho's suite of Office-like apps.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/28/2009
Spam volumes have increased fourfold during the last six months, accounting for a discouraging 94.9 percent of all e-mail delivered so far in August.
- By William Jackson
- 08/26/2009
Internet Explorer 8 will arrive as an "update rollup" via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Tuesday, Aug. 25, Microsoft announced.
Researchers from Redmond this week unveiled an anti-hacking concept that can help track hackers or malicious content to origin servers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/19/2009
If there's one thing that last month's attacks against public sector sites in both the U.S. and South Korea demonstrated, it's that the exploits of the past often come back to haunt us.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/19/2009
A consortium of IT security companies is rolling out an XML malware metadata scheme to improve data sharing within the industry.
- By William Jackson
- 08/18/2009
Denial-of-service attacks launched last year against Georgian Web sites were carried out by Russian civilians and sympathizers rather than the government.
- By William Jackson
- 08/17/2009
Microsoft is putting out the word that users of Internet Explorer 6 should upgrade to IE 8, primarily for security and standards-compliance reasons.
Microsoft provided fresh details about the next editions of Microsoft Office for the Apple Macintosh platform, including a new e-mail service.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/13/2009
Tuesday's nine security patches are all about networking, the Internet, servers and interoperable components that tie everything together.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/11/2009
In a move that promises to strengthen its influence over how video is developed and disseminated online, Google last week said it has agreed to acquire On2 Technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/10/2009
System administrators might be more pleased than dismayed when a social networking site such as Twitter locks out millions of users.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/07/2009
The move to the Internet cloud will pick up steam in the next year for developers, according to a new survey from Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/05/2009
Microsoft plans to hire at least 400 Yahoo employees as part of its search-advertising deal with Yahoo, which was announced last week
Organizations using the BIND 9 DNS server are being urged to update and patch their servers to correct a zero-day vulnerability that can allow denial-of-service attacks.
- By William Jackson
- 08/05/2009
Have the rise of online news-aggregation sites and our thirst for celebrity gossip put the kibosh on old-school reporting?
Readers offer their advice for Doug's father, who inadvertently ran afoul of AOL's strange spam policies.
- By Readers of Redmond magazine
- 08/01/2009
Microsoft's upcoming Forefront Threat Management Gateway brings a host of security possibilities to the table.
- By Joern Wettern
- 08/01/2009
When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/31/2009
Microsoft and Yahoo finally consummated an Internet search advertising-text deal after almost two years of contentious wooing.
Plus: Microsoft's security initiative comes out from under the hat; Office in a sandbox.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
Microsoft issued a proposal last week that attempts to address European Commission concerns about its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
U.S. authorities have not determined who was behind the recent cyber attacks that temporarily knocked some federal Web sites offline.
Microsoft admitted on Monday that some users of Internet Explorer 8 may perceive its newest Web browser as sluggish.
Security software specialist Prevx reported the theft of almost 90,000 FTP credentials from a laundry list of prominent corporate sites by a new trojan called Zeus.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/20/2009
On the eve of its July security patch release, Redmond issued a security advisory on flaws in the ActiveX control function -- the second such advisory in as many weeks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/13/2009
Recent denial-of-service attacks against government Web sites in the United States and South Korea appear to have had little impact and are not particularly sophisticated, experts say.
- By William Jackson
- 07/09/2009
Google is developing an operating system designed primarily for lightweight Web-based tasks, the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/08/2009
Plus: hackers aren't letting up on DirectShow; Microsoft helps defend against XSS; Apple and Mozilla work on patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/07/2009
Microsoft continues to investigate a new vulnerability revealed at the top of the week regarding an ActiveX control component in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/07/2009
Why can't a Web browser be more like an operating system? That's a question being investigated with "Gazelle," an ongoing project at Microsoft Research.
Microsoft is planning to deliver Internet Explorer 8 via Windows Server Update Services, starting on Aug. 25.
Networking giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed an interest in the hosted productivity suite space that Microsoft is poised to dominate.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/01/2009
Readers grapple with the new browser's learning curve. Plus, thoughts on Microsoft and impartiality, and a YouTube content dilemma.
- By Readers of Redmond magazine
- 07/01/2009
How to change the browser title for a top-level SharePoint site.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 07/01/2009
A few hints you might not be familiar with can help you spot and fix problems in AD.
Google came through with fixes to its newly introduced e-mail and calendar synchronization application that works with Microsoft Outlook.
In an effort to give students a portal to real-world volunteer service, the federally operated Corporation for National and Community Service has announced a partnership with Microsoft to establish a virtual helpdesk.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 06/25/2009
Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is now available, company officials announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/24/2009
Last month, according to Symantec Corp. subsidiary MessageLabs, the spam tally eclipsed 90 percent of all business e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/23/2009
Researchers at Finjan Software Inc. have discovered a professional network for buying and selling botnets anywhere in the world.
- By William Jackson
- 06/17/2009
A new survey of 17,000 IT security professionals by Cloakware should be cause for alarm for security administrators.
A setting in Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista can help stave off a particular remote code execution attack, according to Microsoft's security team.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2009
Worldwide shipments of portable PCs surpassed desktop PCs in the first quarter of this year, marking the first time it has occurred, according to an IDC report announced on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/11/2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points and nearly 550 clients in different financial centers and found that half of them were either open -- unprotected -- or used Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/11/2009
Google just made it easier for IT organizations to ditch Microsoft Exchange Server.
June may prove to be a busy month for IT pros, with Microsoft planning to release 10 fixes in its next security patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/05/2009
Plus: Obama names fed ITSec chief; QuickTime, iTunes fixed; Twitter users targeted yet again.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2009
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
Google this week took developers off guard by revealing Google Wave, a real-time shared communications stream that can include text, photos, videos and maps to which all participants have access.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/29/2009
President Barack Obama will release the long-awaited report on U.S. cybersecurity policy on Friday, May 29.
- By William Jackson
- 05/28/2009
Microsoft announced "Bing" on Thursday, the company's newest search engine technology and brand campaign.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the creation of the "Social Enterprise Alliance," a partnership centered on the customization and integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
Software security continues to trouble IT pros, who often have to do more with less in the current recession, according to two industry-sponsored studies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/26/2009
Microsoft has cancelled a hearing on alleged competition violations that was scheduled to take place before European Commission (EC) officials in early June.
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2009
As expected, Microsoft rolled out only one patch for this month's Patch Tuesday, a critical bulletin for PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/12/2009
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/12/2009
Companies looking to reduce costs through cloud computing will have to make some tough decisions about security.
- By Naomi Grossman
- 05/01/2009
It's all fun and games until Barney (the dinosaur, not the journo) loses an eye...or worse.
Facing strong competition from Apple and Google, Microsoft looks to re-tool Windows Mobile for the enterprise market.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- 05/01/2009
How Adobe is handling critical vulnerability discovered in its Reader software gets mixed reaction from IT security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/01/2009
Under pressure from competitors in a high-stakes game, Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 8. But will the new browser scratch or run the table?
Concerns about the security implications of evolving cloud computing technologies dominated last week's annual RSA Conference.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/28/2009
Microsoft moves to make worms less effective. Plus: RSA kicks off security conference season; Google to school IT pros on the perils of cross-site scripting; and the FBI weighs in on Conficker.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/28/2009
Researchers from Finjan Software Inc. announced at the RSA Security conference the discovery of a new botnet on nearly 2 million infected computers -- many of them in U.S. government networks.
- By William Jackson
- 04/23/2009
Web browsers offered soft and interesting targets for hackers in 2008, who took advantage of them to attack the increasingly rich Web experience, said security expert Jeremiah Grossman.
- By William Jackson
- 04/21/2009
As cyber security problems become more widespread, Microsoft urged the IT community to take a more active role, and described its security approach.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/21/2009
The European Commission (EC) granted Microsoft another week to respond to a competition complaint involving its Internet Explorer Web browser.
The number of compromised computers actively being used in botnets to launch attacks on any given day last year was about 75,000, according to a new report on Internet threats from Symantec Corp.
- By William Jackson
- 04/15/2009
Yes, Conficker manages to remain in minds of IT security. Plus: tweeting birds get the worm and why security standards equal a bad idea.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/14/2009
Default security settings in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser could open a company's intranet to hacking attacks, according to a recent security white paper.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warns that researchers on April 9 discovered a new variant of the Conficker worm that updates earlier infections via its peer-to-peer network.
- By William Jackson
- 04/10/2009
The annual Web 2.0 Expo is considered a prominent showcase and launching ground for noteworthy next-generation applications, and last week's gathering in San Francisco was no exception.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/10/2009
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.
Zend Technologies will release its commercial-grade server for PHP applications on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/06/2009
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
Conficker is scheduled to update itself April 1. But analysts say the appears to be an upgrade of its defenses rather than a planned attack.
- By William Jackson
- 04/01/2009
We've got opinions, and we're not afraid to use 'em.
Microsoft's neither confirming nor denying, but Azure certainly has all the symptoms of a platform -- and developers should take note.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 04/01/2009
Figuring out quorum configuration.
Security researchers say that unprecedented economic uncertainty is translating into unprecedented opportunity for purveyors of spam.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/31/2009
Mozilla rolled out security updates for Firefox after the Web browser was hacked during a contest two weeks ago at a software security convention in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/30/2009
The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) publicly launched its "Open Cloud Manifesto" on Monday, but the document, which advocates open standards and interoperability between cloud platforms, generated few sparks after a spokesperson indicated that the CCIF isn't vouching for it.
The Conficker frenzy continues as IT security pros prepare for April 1, when the worm is expected to take some action from infected systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/30/2009
A Microsoft official took umbrage on Thursday to an "open standards" initiative proposed by a coalition of cloud computing technology providers.
Microsoft has tinkered with IE 8 and is now claiming a resolution to vulnerabilities amid a firestorm of chatter surrounding the browser's release last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/26/2009
Microsoft announced this week that it's partnering with NASA to develop and deploy technology to deliver planetary images and data over the Internet.
Since Microsoft's acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer last year, users have been keen to find out precisely what Microsoft plans to do with the company's search know-how.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/25/2009
Forrester Research found that enterprises predominantly use Windows and Internet Explorer, but they're currently sticking with the older Microsoft technologies.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/24/2009
The Windows Debugger plug-in explains all. Plus: IE 8 and Safari get taken down a notch; Conficker might be an April Fool's joke; Paladin rolls to the rescue.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/24/2009
Microsoft continues to squash bugs in its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, which was released last week for Windows-based PCs.
Developing and managing Web sites may have gotten a little easier with new tools announced by Microsoft this week as part of its MIX09 Web developer conference.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/20/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of its latest e-commerce server, which integrates with SharePoint services.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/18/2009
A recent report on Web security trends relayed a damning assessment of the IT security landscape that's prompting some to suggest the government should step in to give enterprises and individuals guidance on how to protect themselves.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/18/2009
On Thursday, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8.
You might not have noticed it, but the World Wide Web turned 20 years old last week.
- By William Jackson
- 03/18/2009
Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) was released to manufacturing, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
A study polling the use of Web browsers and operating systems affirmed Microsoft's dominant market position on both fronts.
Configuring DNS is no easy task. Emmett's here to walk you through it, from setting up the resolver to understanding how zone files and resource records work.
- By Emmett Dulaney
- 03/16/2009
Plus, Microsoft in a patching spat; PCI makes new rules; Facebook tricks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/16/2009
Hackers are increasingly attempting to influence search engines to misdirect users to spurious Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/16/2009
A white paper published by Microsoft on Wednesday concludes that Internet Explorer 8 is the fastest browser, based on benchmark testing conducted in a Microsoft lab.
nCircle's Tyler Reguly discovered a vulnerability that renders the Microsoft's DNS patch virtually useless if a server has already been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/12/2009
Adobe Systems Inc. had its own Patch Tuesday yesterday when it issued a critical security fix for an Adobe Reader 9 bug that first got broad attention in late February.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/11/2009
Plus, eBay bites its users; Safari's hacker gets brazen.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/10/2009
Mike Nash, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows product management, talks about the status of IE 8 RC1.
- By Doug Barney and Kurt Mackie
- 03/09/2009
Microsoft will expand the list of "features" that can be disabled when the Windows 7 Release Candidate becomes available, including the ability to turn off IE 8.
The botnets responsible for so much spam appear to be in a rebuilding phase, but any respite is likely to be brief and new threats loom on the horizon, according to e-mail security firm MX Logic.
- By William Jackson
- 03/05/2009
The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday announced that it is changing its full-time monitoring of Microsoft's compliance with a 2004 antitrust decision, and instead will use technical consultants for monitoring on an "ad hoc" basis.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is updating its recommendations for meeting the unusual security challenges presented by the domain name system.
- By William Jackson
- 03/03/2009
Live Mesh is useful today, but it may be a blockbuster in the future.
- By Peter Varhol
- 03/01/2009
Google is the latest Web browser maker to join the plaintiff's side in a European Commission (EC) complaint against Microsoft's Internet Explorer distribution practices.
Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built-in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro.
A team consisting of Microsoft Research personnel and university staff members has demonstrated a potentially more secure Web browser called Gazelle.
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Plus, Cooking up a new browser from scratch; baking in security; Adobe Reader flaw discovered.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/23/2009
Exploits for a serious cache-poisoning vulnerability discovered in the DNS last year have begun to appear in the wild, and they have made security researcher Dan Kaminsky a believer in DNS Security Extensions.
- By William Jackson
- 02/20/2009
A Norwegian Web portal has begun a campaign to kill the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser.
Microsoft earlier this month began advocating for greater broadband access in a policy blog, with a particular focus on a piece of spectrum called "white spaces."
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/19/2009
Trend Micro said hackers are targeting a hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was addressed in Microsoft's February security patch issued last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2009
Problems with the Conficker worm have become so widespread that Microsoft is putting up $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of the worm's author.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2009
Unified communications (UC) has emerged from the Internet cloud thanks to a partnership that brings together LightEdge Solutions, BroadSoft and Microsoft
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009
Redmond's February slate of security bulletins includes four patches -- two deemed "critical" and two "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/10/2009
Microsoft rolled out two new enterprise search products on Tuesday at its FASTforward'09 event in Las Vegas.
Microsoft's antitrust past has come back to haunt it, yet again.
Microsoft over the weekend acknowledged it is planning a service that will allow users of its Windows Mobile operating system to synchronize data on their devices with the Web.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/09/2009
Microsoft plans to rollout four security bulletins for this month's patch cycle on Tuesday, with two "critical" items and two "important" patches on the slate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/05/2009
The source code for Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now available under an open license.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2009
An international team of computer scientists has demonstrated in the lab that it is possible for overlapping Wi-Fi networks in densely populated areas to support the rapid spread of malicious code that could infect an entire city in a matter of weeks.
- By William Jackson
- 02/02/2009
More and more, the company is turning to Web-focused models.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 02/01/2009
Are you? Bogus pop-ups that hide crippling malware can bring networks to their knees. Here are some methods to stop scareware and fix the damages that it inflicts.
Though Microsoft may have gotten ahead of the browser-security curve with RC1 of IE 8, which includes a feature that helps protect against clickjacking attacks, recent developments suggest that other browsers haven't quite caught up yet.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/30/2009
Microsoft has advanced to the next testing phase by issuing Release Candidate "Escrow"-build versions of Service Pack 2.
Growth of the Apple iPhone and Google's Android mobile platforms are cutting into the market for devices based on Windows Mobile and will continue to do so, according to a global survey of developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2009
Microsoft has extended the general public availability of its Windows 7 Beta yet again, with a new final date of Feb. 9 to get it.
With the release candidate of IE 8 now available, Microsoft GM Dean Hachamovitch talks about switching to standards compliance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Kurt Mackie
- 01/26/2009
MSRC gets new leader, while old leader moves up; IE8 stems clickjacking; Conficker continues to confound; payment cards -- now, more vulnerable.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/26/2009
A survey of more than 300 open source software (OSS) developers found that many plan to distribute their solutions as services over the Internet cloud.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/20/2009
A new report from security consultancy AppRiver confirms what many of us have long expected: Spammers are becoming both savvier and sneakier.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/20/2009
Microsoft announced a client update to the beta version of Live Mesh on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/16/2009
The European Commission (EC) issued a "Statement of Objections" against Microsoft's practice of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
Users are more willing to accept change when it doesn't feel like such a...well, change. Firefox knows this, even Emmett's grandmother knows this. It's time for Microsoft to catch on.
- By Emmett Dulaney
- 01/15/2009
Users of Windows Server service that haven't patched a previously disclosed worm hole (MS08-067) are taking a big risk.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/14/2009
New global research forecasts a swift rise in development plans for Software as a Service applications in the next 12 months.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/12/2009
Microsoft last night officially released the first beta of its Windows 7 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The beta will be open to all testers tomorrow.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Kurt Mackie
- 01/08/2009
Microsoft's first security update rollout of 2009 may be a quiet one, according to an advance notification released Thursday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/08/2009
When Microsoft issues the general release of Internet Explorer 8, enterprises will be able to deploy a new blocking tool to prevent unauthorized installations of the browser.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/07/2009
Plus: Windows Media Player RCE flaw not serious, says Redmond; Twitter phishing; more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/06/2009
With IBM, Microsoft and Oracle jumping into the game, social-networking technologies are helping drive Enterprise 2.0.
- By Naomi Grossman
- 01/01/2009
The preview release of the Windows Azure Services Platform kicks off Microsoft's cloud-computing era, which promises to dramatically change the computing strategies of IT shops.
- By Kathleen Richards and Ed Scannell
- 01/01/2009
The three companies are getting ready to rumble over ownership of the hypervisor cloud.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2009
Just days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's declaration that Redmond was "done with all of these [acquisition] discussions with Yahoo," one newspaper is reporting that a deal is in the works.
Microsoft is seeing an increase in the number of malware attacks exploiting a security hole supposedly addressed by a recent patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/26/2008
IBM on Monday announced consulting services specifically designed to help organizations assess their options in using cloud computing technology.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 apparently will have its product debut some time next year, according to an announcement released on Wednesday by the company.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 apparently will have its product debut some time next year, according to an announcement by the company.
Redmond is rolling out a free anti-virus software program for consumers that will compete with products made by Symantec and McAfee.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/19/2008
Jerry Yang is transitioning out as Yahoo's CEO, but he will continue on as a member of the board, according to an announcement issued late on Monday by the online search and advertising company.
A team of security researchers this week demonstrated an attack confirming that the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol can be compromised.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/18/2008
Microsoft exec Stephen Elop announced hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint, which are now available to organizations of all sizes in the U.S. market
Three companies are seeking indemnification from Microsoft after being sued for using technology associated with Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform.
Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/14/2008
Microsoft plans to roll out updates to its Windows Live services and Windows Live Essentials offerings, which are aimed at consumer users.
Microsoft executive David Treadwell today provided a few more details about the company's Azure Services Platform in a Webinar aimed at the investment community.
Redmond rolled out two patches on Tuesday -- one deemed "critical" and one "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/11/2008
Microsoft has developed four demonstration applications that showcase its Live Mesh cloud-based data synchronization service, according to a report issued on Tuesday by veteran Microsoft watcher, Mary-Jo Foley.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008
VMware today announced a new market direction involving the mobile telecom market: VMware will target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.
Spammers have jumped on the global financial crisis to lure unsuspecting victims into their botnets. And, in the wake of last week's election, President-elect Barack Obama also has emerged as bait for other large spam campaigns.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Yahoo's CEO at a tech conference admits to second-guessing the Microsoft offer and offers his assessment of the Google deal gone bad.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/07/2008
Wireless service providers will be able to take advantage of the locally unused television RF spectrum known as white space for high-speed Internet access under widely anticipated rules adopted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
- By William Jackson
- 11/06/2008
Calling it a distraction to its core mission, Google pulled the plug on an advertising agreement with Yahoo, according to statements from both companies Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/06/2008
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
Google Inc. has rolled out a security patch for a flaw found last week in its Android operating system for mobile devices.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2008
Yahoo, the advertising and search-engine giant that's taken a beating lately on the stock market, has hired a former Microsoft exec to help scale revenues.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/04/2008
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will offer a new software development platform for cloud computing added new energy to the debate over how and when organizations might begin turning to the technology.
The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
- By William Jackson
- 11/03/2008
Networking giant Cisco goes after Microsoft's supremacy in the collaboration-software market.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- 11/01/2008
IE8 won't break new ground, but it will feature some notable security improvements.
- By Joern Wettern
- 11/01/2008
Google's new beta browser shows promise, but needs lots of filling out.
From standards-compliance to testing, Microsoft is rethinking its strategy for the upcoming browser.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/30/2008
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/29/2008
An IDC study found that nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations don't have solutions in place to prevent data leakage over e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- By Michael Desmond and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/28/2008
Microsoft may have reaffirmed its commitment to cloud computing with the launch of its Windows Azure operating system, but overall business adoption of the cloud concept may be stymied, in part, by security issues.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/28/2008
Chrome has the makings of a good browser, but still lacks a few important features.
Microsoft announced the new Live Framework during a Tuesday keynote that addressed Windows 7 and other tools and technologies that will comprise the front-end infrastructure of the company's unfolding Software plus Services strategy.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/28/2008
Microsoft today released the first beta of its federated identity services framework aimed at simplifying the way enterprises deploy authentication services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
Identity thieves and hackers appear to be coming at Windows users from all fronts, most commonly with spam. They were particularly active during the third quarter of 2008, when they did it eight times more frequently than in the previous quarter, according to a report released Monday by Sophos.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/27/2008
Rewiring Yahoo plan establishes a "front door" for developers into its evolving Open Stack of platform services.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2008
Big Blue upped its ante in the software as a service (SaaS) space this week with the release of a hosted version of its venerable corporate e-mail software.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/23/2008
Yahoo's revenue was up by one percent, year-over-year, according to its third-quarter results published on Wednesday, but its workforce will still get cut by 10 percent.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/22/2008
Data breaches at state and local government agencies exposed the personal information of nearly 3.8 million Americans in the first three quarters of this year, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
- By William Jackson
- 10/21/2008
On-line gamers using profanity in audio chat sessions may have their act cleaned up if Microsoft has anything to say about it.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/21/2008
Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that it did not release the next version of its Sync Framework on Oct. 13, as reported by some news outlets last week.
Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008), the second major component of its virtualization strategy.
What's the top threat to data security going to be in 2009? According to the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009 out of Georgia Tech's Information Security Center, the answer is malware specifically disguised as "benign social networking links."
Google on Thursday reported strong revenue growth for its third quarter, despite a faltering economy.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2008
Microsoft's CEO talked about Windows 7 and the company's vision for syncing up applications in the Internet cloud at a Gartner-sponsored event on Thursday.
Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Security-minded admins have their work cut out for them, as Microsoft coughs up 11 fixes in its October patch cycle.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/14/2008
Silverlight 2, the latest version of
Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in for multimedia
applications, will be available on Oct. 14, company officials
announced on Monday.
Microsoft has been talking about future changes to Windows Vista's most maligned feature, User Account Control (UAC).
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/13/2008
A new study from Gartner concludes that the WLANs of today comprise a "significant vulnerability" for enterprise IT organizations.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/07/2008
Jet-setters should be careful about how they use the Internet connections supplied by hotels, as most are not secured properly, according to a new study from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/03/2008
Yahoo plans to resolve a password security vulnerability identified last week in its Zimbra open source e-mail and collaboration software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/02/2008
Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash"?
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/02/2008
You can talk about SCADA. You can talk about vulnerabilities. But be careful about conflating the two.
As Google releases Chrome, Microsoft and Mozilla gear up to do battle.
The Payment Card Industry Council on Wednesday released an updated version of its PCI data security standard, which is designed to help protect transmitted charge and debit card information.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/01/2008
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
They call it private browsing. Microsoft recently released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8 that offers it. You'll find it in Mozilla's Firefox and the new Google Chrome. Apple's Safari has offered the feature for some time.
- By William Jackson
- 09/30/2008
The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study by security service provider SecureWorks Inc.
- By William Jackson
- 09/23/2008
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/19/2008
Redmond continued to rebuff assertions that a "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8, currently at Beta 2 release, invades user privacy.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/15/2008
An industry specification for content management interoperability services has been floated by three players in the enterprise content management (ECM) space.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/15/2008
The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft's proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google's browser as well.
Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Japan, the United States and China topped the list of countries from which Internet attack traffic originates in a recent report by Akamai Technologies Inc. The three countries accounted for more than 60 percent of attack-oriented Internet traffic.
- By Dan Campbell
- 09/10/2008
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
Microsoft this week released an update to a 2007 Internet Explorer patch covering Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/28/2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- 08/28/2008
The software giant this week released its first service pack for Forefront Client Security, a member of its Forefront family of security products.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/28/2008
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and the company spilled a lot of pixels explaining the beta's new features.
Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
Microsoft released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
Microsoft plans to pour an additional money into business and open source technology collaboration with Novell.
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/13/2008
Microsoft closed its investigation into an update blocking issue that affected users of Windows Server Update Service 3.0 or WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1.
Microsoft announced a launch event for its virtualization products, scheduled for Sept. 8, 2008 in Bellevue, Wash.
Microsoft's August patch, slated to be the largest patch rollout since 12 bulletins hit users in February of 2007, came up short by one.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/12/2008
Microsoft lost browser market share over the last year, according to a report issued by management consulting firm Janco Associates Inc.
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
One fun thing about the interactive world of Web 2.0 is the online applications you can take advantage of, such as Google Gadgets.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008
IT Pros and system administrators will be mighty busy this month as Microsoft announced plans to release 12 patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/07/2008
AT&T has introduced a new hosted service that offers online storage, processing power and enterprise applications.
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/06/2008
IBM Corp. late last week touted the construction of two additional cloud computing datacenters -- an investment of $360 million -- which let it address what officials call "surging" demand for cloud computing resources.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/05/2008
Open source software topped the list of business "risk factors" outlined in Microsoft's annual 10-K report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Reports are coming in that an AT&T Domain Name System (DNS) server may have been compromised with malicious code that exploits a vulnerability reported earlier this month. This apparently is the first instance of the exploit in the wild.
- By William Jackson
- 07/31/2008
Microsoft is working on a project to develop a new operating system, code-named "Midori," but the company won't disclose the details at this time.
Microsoft issued a formal security advisory with an "urgent warning" to patch a general Domain Name System vulnerability that can enable spoofing attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/25/2008
Microsoft late on Wednesday announced a reorganization of its Platforms & Services Division and departure of PSD president Kevin Johnson.
The open source software community lags behind the commercial software sector in secure code development, according to a recent study of some commonly used open source packages.
- By William Jackson
- 07/22/2008
The blogosphere is awash with talk about the possible overall weakness of the Domain Name System (DNS) architecture.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/22/2008
Speculation continues as to what the ultimate systemic Domain Name System (DNS) flaw could be.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/22/2008
Maker of popular BlackBerry handset issued a patch to plug a vulnerability in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) solution.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/18/2008
Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter and 2008 year-end financial results were announced in a Webcast on Thursday.
Microsoft quietly opened its Live Mesh preview to more testers on July 15, but by today (July 17), the offer had been narrowed to just waiting-list only.
Microsoft's Chief Architect Ray Ozzie and some say the sky will be the limit for cloud computing in the enterprise, but there's still a need for IT security too.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/16/2008
A scan of Web servers by Internet security company Finjan Inc. has found more than 1,000 legitimate Web sites that had been compromised by a new wave of attacks in recent weeks.
- By William Jackson
- 07/16/2008
Microsoft today described its own version of events concerning Friday's failed talks with Yahoo's management, which were focused on a renewed effort to buy Yahoo's search ad business.
Less than 24 hours after its Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft issued a security advisory connected to a possible vulnerability in Word 2002 Service Pack 3.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/09/2008
Major vendors of domain name system (DNS) servers are making an unprecedented coordinated release of patches for what is being called a fundamental flaw in DNS, a core element of the Internet.
- By William Jackson
- 07/08/2008
In the wake of a report suggesting that IE was the least secure Web browser, Redmond on Wednesday touted the security features expected to appear in IE 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/02/2008
Microsoft's Brian Hall looks to better integrate the Windows Live online strategy.
More than 40 percent of Internet surfers don't use browsers with up-to-date security patches -- and IE users are the biggest culprits.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/01/2008
As his boss Bill Gates departs, Ozzie takes Microsoft's online strategy into the cloud.
Hang on to your wallets -- Microsoft's lineup of online services probably won't come free.
Microsoft's reticence notwithstanding, many people are excited about what Live Mesh can offer.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 07/01/2008
A coalition of academics, information technology industry leaders and public-policy advocates will launch a campaign today to make "access to a fast, open and affordable Internet a basic right for all Americans."
- By William Jackson
- 06/24/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a new security advisory after the discovery of "a recent escalation in a class of attacks" targeting Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/24/2008
Customers of Bloomberg LP's real-time market data who have long been receiving feeds on their BlackBerrys can now receive them on their Windows Mobile-based devices, thanks to a recently completed development effort.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/20/2008
Microsoft reissues a "critical" patch relating to Bluetooth wireless technology that was released last week as part of its June update cycle.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/19/2008
It took only five hours from the release of Firefox version 3.0 for a researcher to report a critical vulnerability in the open source browser.
- By William Jackson
- 06/19/2008
The volunteer-led Mozilla project has released version 3 of the Firefox browser.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/18/2008
The rise in the amount of Spam being eaten by families who have fallen on hard times is commensurate with the rise in e-mail spam, Symantec revealed this week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2008
Microsoft released seven patches for its June rollout of security fixes. As expected, three are labeled "critical," three "important" and one "moderate."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/10/2008
Redmond projects a rollout of seven fixes, with three rated critical, three important and one moderate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/05/2008
A security research firm has found multiple flaws in Web server software from Sun Microsystems that would collectively allow attackers to log on, gain root access, peruse and delete files, and execute malicious commands.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/04/2008
Online security company MessageLabs found that more than three-quarters of the e-mail messages it scanned in May were spam, an increase of 3.3 percent over the previous month, said Mark Sunner, MessageLabs' chief security analyst.
- By William Jackson
- 06/04/2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
A new whaling scam -- that's a phishing scam that targets big game -- using a supposed U.S. Tax Court notification as bait has reeled in about 600 victims so far, according to Internet security firm SecureWorks.
- By William Jackson
- 06/03/2008
A Microsoft executive said today that Microsoft may be considering rebranding its Live search engine brand.
Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/03/2008
An investigation launched Tuesday into the possible compromise of about 1,000 patient records at Walter Reed Army Medical Center serves as a stern reminder of how dangerous peer-to-peer and other social networking applications can be, security experts warn.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/03/2008
Microsoft continued to investigate what it called public reports of a remote code execution threat for XP and Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser is installed.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2008
The flood of social-networking technologies rushing into the enterprise is forcing IT to become still more flexible.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
Ringside Networks' Bob Bickel brings customers closer with social-networking technologies.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
Microsoft and Yahoo! look to uncertain futures as merger falls through.
According to a recent study from security and anti-virus specialist Sophos, servers in the U.S. and China host the lion's share of malware-infected Web sites. Meanwhile, Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of this year, according to Sophos -- with no sign of dropping off any time soon.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/29/2008
Whoever becomes our next president will inherit a cyber infrastructure under almost constant attack and at greater risk than eight years ago, and a handful of experts and legislators have come together to ensure that cybersecurity has a high priority in his or her administration.
- By William Jackson
- 04/29/2008
Live Mesh sounds like "HailStorm" in concept -- a way to access your data from any device with an Internet connection -- says Microsoft's Rosoff.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/25/2008
Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft's Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo underway this week: Think open platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/24/2008
The tax filing season has passed, the economic stimulus rebate season is upon us, and the phishers are changing their bait.
- By William Jackson
- 04/23/2008
Spurned suitor Microsoft, which has been trying to acquire Yahoo since the end of January, adopted a new tactic today.
Team Sparx takes away top honor and trip to global final in Paris in July.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/22/2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing, according to a post on Microsoft TechNet.
Security personnel in Redmond are investigating a newly reported zero-day bug vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems and server systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008
Microsoft revealed "Albany," a consumer-oriented hosted service that provides Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications, plus security and collaboration tools.
Mark Logic Corp. has submitted its Extensible Markup Language (XML) database server for Common Criteria certification.
- By Joab Jackson
- 04/15/2008
Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, initiated at the end of January, today unleashed media reports suggesting that shifting coalitions are forming that could decide Yahoo's fate.
Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/10/2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/10/2008
Microsoft rolled out five "critical" and three "important" patches for Windows Server 2008, Vista, Office, IE and other software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/08/2008
Microsoft today released information on protocols used in some of its software products.
If the traditional notion of infrastructure-based perimeter security is not yet dead, it's not for lack of effort by keynote speakers at this week's RSA Security conference.
- By William Jackson
- 04/08/2008
Yahoo's board of directors got a letter from Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer over the weekend about Yahoo's slow response to Microsoft's proposed takeover bid.
Nearly a year and a half after striking their improbable alliance to provide better interoperability between open source and Windows-based platforms, Microsoft and Novell told developers this week that the pact has yielded technical benefits but there's still work to be completed, particularly on the interoperability between the two companies' enterprise directory platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2008
Redmond is poised to release eight security bulletins for its April patch release, with five designated as "critical" and three deemed "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/03/2008
Bots and spyware top the list of security worries for federal technologies, according to a survey of 200 federal information technology employees from Cisco Systems.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 04/02/2008
Sunbelt Exchange Archiver makes e-mail archiving and retrieval accessible to the rest of us.
- By Peter Varhol
- 04/01/2008
Yahoo doesn't have anything Microsoft doesn't already have. Apple, on the other hand...
Google's over-the-Internet software for editing, uploading and sharing office documents, known as Google Docs, can now be used offline, Google software engineer, Philip Tucker said on a blog yesterday.
A new scam to steal personal and financial information through a combination of e-mail and phone calls surfaced last week, masquerading as an urgent message from the IRS about a tax refund.
- By William Jackson
- 04/01/2008
Federal agencies' adoption of online applications from Internet powerhouse Google Enterprise could usher in an era of rising productivity and improved security, said David Girourard, the company's vice president and general manager.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 04/01/2008
Redmond officially rolls out Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles event.
On-again, off-again partners Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are as cozy as ever again.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/26/2008
On Friday Microsoft released an e-mail sent from Kevin Johnson, president of the Microsoft Platforms & Services Division, to employees of his department commenting on how consolidating with Yahoo might impact them and Microsoft as a whole.
Microsoft is placing a significant emphasis on standardization and interoperability, saying it will share its APIs and release extensive documentation of its protocols.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Ed Scannell
- 02/21/2008
Microsoft appears to be taking the next steps in its move toward a hostile acquisition of Yahoo.
The first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 is expected from Microsoft in the next few weeks. By all accounts, those that have seen the private beta report that the features outlined by the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, Scott Guthrie, in a November blog posting are pretty much on track.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/19/2008
Timed with the 2008 Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona this week, Microsoft made announcements pushing its interests further into the consumer and global mobile market.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Microsoft is facing another suitor for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
For the February security bulletin release, Microsoft rolled out six "Critical" fixes -- rather than the seven detailed in the advanced notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2008
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took the wraps off a major new version of Office Live Small Business and launched a new developer program for Office Live.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/12/2008
Today at Microsoft's Office System Developer Conference (OSDC) in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates commented on what he thinks Yahoo got right -- and wrong -- just as Yahoo formally rejected the Redmond, Wash.-based company's initial offer.
Malicious Flash banner ads have been surfacing on major web sites including Expedia.com, Rhapsody.com, and MayoClinic.com in the last month, according to media reports.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/07/2008
Redmond's February patch release is slated to roll out 12 security fixes -- seven rated "Critical," and five deemed "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/07/2008
Microsoft Corp.'s online advertising researchers will spend this year teaching computers to be smart about sticking ads into video clips, and to be even smarter about targeting ads to specific Web surfers.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2008
Google Inc. is adding more e-mail security and storage products for businesses, sharpening its aim on a Microsoft Corp. stronghold while the competition between the two rivals also heats up in Internet search and advertising.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2008
Google Inc. raised the specter of Microsoft Corp. using its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal control over the Internet, underscoring the online search leader's queasiness about its two biggest rivals teaming up.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/04/2008
U.S. and European antitrust regulators aren't likely to prevent Microsoft from buying Yahoo, analysts said Friday, though scrutiny of the deal could drag on for months.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/01/2008
Puzzling over Silverlight? You're not alone.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 02/01/2008
Microsoft today has made a surprise bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. for a $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the company's closing share price Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
Google Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit missed analyst expectations, signaling the crumbling U.S. economy has dented the Internet search leader's moneymaking machine.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/31/2008
Court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s market power, which began in 2002 after a landmark antitrust settlement, has been extended by 18 months.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2008
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education -- and all other sectors, for that matter -- face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users.
After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to address customer complaints following the outages -- and taking both applications open source.
Hoping to snap out of a financial malaise, Yahoo is preparing to lay off as many as 1,000 workers in the Sunnyvale-based company's biggest purge since it was scrambling to survive the dot-com bust seven years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2008
A breach at Baylor University is the latest in a string of more than a dozen data security incidents on United States campuses reported by a variety of sources so far in January 2008.
Adobe has released two new full version upgrades in its Flash Media Server line: Flash Media Streaming Server 3 and Flash Media Interactive Server 3.
Cecilia Cole, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) program manager, announced today on Microsoft's WSUS team blog that the service will force-push out Internet Explorer 7 to organizations with WSUS set to auto-approve updates.
Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2008
Daum Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Celrun Co. said Tuesday they were setting up a joint venture to offer Internet protocol television services in South Korea.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
After seven months as chief executive, Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang has concluded hundreds of employees will have to be fired to help the slumping Internet icon recover from years of misguided management.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/22/2008
Plus: SonicWALL exposes VPN; Microsoft kills 'kill switch'; ESPN sports bad code; more.
For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
Browser-based attacks, bot vector incursions, targeted phishing, mobile hacking and insider espionage rank as top five security menaces for 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/18/2008
Privacy concerns stemming from online shopping rose in 2007, a new study finds, as the loss or theft of credit card information and other personal data soared to unprecedented levels.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/16/2008
European Union regulators investigating whether Microsoft is using monopoly powers to squeeze out competing Internet browsers and software rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/14/2008
A flock of new-age tech powers -- Amazon.com, Google, eBay, Facebook -- want your developers to target their pieces of "the Cloud."
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/10/2008
Microsoft bids $1.2 billion for Norwegian search company to shore up search technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/09/2008
Microsoft, which has said for months that it fields the best enterprise search, is spending another billion to bolster that claim.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/08/2008
Data security becomes an even bigger concern when users go mobile. Here are some ways to keep your mobile data safe.
- By Joern Wettern
- 01/01/2008
While it soft pedals direct competition with Microsoft, the search giant quietly keeps working on open source projects designed to undermine its archrival.
Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/29/2007
Patch Tuesday releases promise be a lot more interesting in 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/28/2007
Firefox 3 Beta 2 hits in time for the holidays; Microsoft queues up IE 8 beta for first half '08.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/27/2007
Internet Explorer has been a source of chagrin to many Web developers over the years due to less-than-perfect W3C standards support. This problem was pervasive with Internet Explorer 6, considering how badly the aging 2001-era browser renders modern CSS-driven layouts.
NetSuite Inc.'s shares surged more than 36 percent in their stock market debut Thursday as investors latched on to the online business software service backed by billionaire Larry Ellison.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/21/2007
Automated workaround replaces manual Windows Registry reset, which elicits mixed response from security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/21/2007
An industry group says it has won a new round in a court battle with Yahoo Inc.'s China arm, which is accused of helping online music pirates.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/21/2007
U.S. antitrust regulators approved Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc., clearing the way for a formidable combination in the burgeoning online advertising sector.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/20/2007
The media company that owns MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures said Wednesday that it will now advertise online through Microsoft Corp. as part of a larger deal.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/19/2007
With hundreds of millions of lines of code contained in Web browser applications, even the most informed and seasoned developers are bound to overlook a couple of things.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/19/2007
Harold Decker usually installs Microsoft's security patches the day after the release, one Wednesday a month with no fanfare.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/18/2007
European lawmakers plan to take the unusual step of pressing antitrust regulators next month to look at privacy concerns raised by Google Inc.'s intended takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2007
After a year of record revenue and the departure of a longtime CEO, executives at Adobe Systems Inc. say 2008 will bring additional product releases and the completion of an aggressive stock buyback program.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2007
Browser maker Opera Software has cried foul, charging Microsoft with antitrust behavior in a complaint to the European Commission.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/13/2007
A House Republican on Wednesday sent a letter to Google Inc., asking the Internet search company to provide more information about its search practices and targeted advertising.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a United Kingdom online mapping company to enhance its existing Windows Live Web-based services.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2007
Norfolk, Va.-based Centric CRM has changed its name to Concursive Corporation to reflect the evolution of the company's product line to beyond customer relationship management (CRM) functionality.
As expected, the last Patch Tuesday offers fixes for seven vulnerabilities -- three of them critical -- and sets the tone for 2008 as the "year of the Vista Patch."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/11/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will provide online advertising for CNBC's financial news Web site.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2007
Microsoft posted a "public" beta of Office Live Workspace, cloud-based functions that it says complement its on-premise Office franchise.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/10/2007
Microsoft's last Patch Tuesday release of 2007 is a big one -- seven fixes, with three of them deemed "Critical" and four labeled "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/06/2007
Researcher in New Zealand discovered holes in Microsoft's Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) program.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/05/2007
Golf club manufacturers have long placed ads in printed golf magazines. Movie studios tend to run television spots before a weekend rather than after. Targeting got even more precise as advertising moved to the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/03/2007
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by an online publisher that claims credit-card companies are enabling the piracy of its pictures of nude models.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/03/2007
This Web security appliance can protect your network within an hour after unpacking the box.
- By Peter Varhol
- 12/01/2007
The company aims to simplify SOA and Web services.
Connected systems division director lays out the company's 'Oslo' plans.
Packaged software or Web service for running mapping applications?
- By Peter Varhol and Bill Heldman
- 12/01/2007
Adobe Systems Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch a service Thursday allowing publishers to insert advertisements into many online newsletters or other electronic documents.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/29/2007
The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/29/2007
Microsoft finds itself continuing to fend off two security threats, both coming about during the Thanksgiving holiday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/26/2007
Alfred Zaccaria was finally going to leave the world of dial-up for high-speed access to the Internet without having to pay a lot more for service.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/19/2007
A U.N.-sponsored Internet conference ended Thursday with little to show in closing the issue of U.S. control over how people around the world access e-mail and Web sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/16/2007
A U.N. telecoms meeting decided Thursday to give mobile service providers access to bandwidth currently reserved for terrestrial television broadcasts, offering the promise of high-speed Internet access on-the-move anywhere in the world by 2015.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/16/2007
The Internet is a powerful tool for free expression and dissent, but those freedoms have also helped child pornographers, predators, terrorists and other cybercriminals.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/15/2007
European Union antitrust regulators launched an in-depth probe Tuesday into Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion bid for online ad broker DoubleClick, saying an initial investigation showed the deal would raise competition concerns.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2007
In one of the least stress-inducing Patch Tuesdays in memory, Microsoft released just two security bulletins today, one "Critical" and one "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2007
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo to launch new Windows Live services, played down the threat of Google on Thursday, denying the rival was ahead in any way but in online searches.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/08/2007
Cisco Systems Inc. shares fell more than 6 percent Thursday amid worry that fluctuations in U.S. business orders are hampering its growth.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/08/2007
Microsoft said that it's giving away Search Server 2008 Express in release candidate form to anyone who wants it, just by downloading it directly from Microsoft's Web site.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/06/2007
After a trickle of updates and "betas" bearing the Windows Live moniker, Microsoft Corp. is ready to start promoting its official package of free desktop programs for e-mail, instant messaging, blogging and sharing photos.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/06/2007
Google's attempt to take a leading role in social networking has some pundits saying yet another Google vs. Microsoft battle scenario is playing out.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/06/2007
Google's attempt to grab moral high ground in the social networking development is a step in the right direction, according to industry analysts.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/02/2007
In its quest to be "hip" and "cutting edge," Redmond may be forgetting the essentials.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 11/01/2007
A coalition of privacy groups Wednesday called for creation of a "Do Not Track List," that would prohibit advertisers from tracking online movements of consumers.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/01/2007
A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/01/2007
Google Inc.'s stock price barreled through $700 for the first time Wednesday, propelled by a belief that the Internet search leader will become even more profitable as it plants its products and services in new markets.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/01/2007
Google Inc. is setting up a distribution network for social networking applications, adding a new twist in the Internet search leader's brewing rivalry with rapidly maturing startup Facebook Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2007
The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2007
A bill to extend a moratorium on Internet access taxes for seven years was approved 402-0 by the House Tuesday, less than two days before it was set to expire.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2007
Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks visitors into revealing passwords.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
It's hard to determine what's more surprising about Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc. -- the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/25/2007
Cisco Systems Inc. is snapping up privately held Navini Networks Inc. for $330 million, extending the networking equipment maker's acquisition streak and providing the latest validation for the new wireless network technology called WiMax.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/23/2007
Microsoft has signed its first patent protection deal with a Linux vendor based in Asia.
Microsoft added a new server to its lineup today, this one aimed at the growing mobile technology market.
The European Commission said Monday it would take until Nov. 13 to examine Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick to review its proposals meant to eliminate antitrust concerns.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/22/2007
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer compared the company's search technology to a precocious toddler -- one who would eventually grow up to rival nemesis Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2007
Google Inc.'s YouTube said Thursday it has launched a version of the video-sharing site in Taiwan in its latest push to expand in foreign markets.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2007
EBay Inc.'s Skype division has let down eBay executives, but they're confident they can reorganize the troubled Internet phone unit and make it more useful to people outside of the online marketplace.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2007
The points of change cited by the research firm include Web 2.0-style apps, SaaS, global-class computing, "consumerization" of IT and open source.
Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies.
HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.
An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2007
An international media rights group called on China to loosen controls on news and personal expression on the Internet, saying the country's system of censorship is an insult to the spirit of online freedom.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2007
Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute _ most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/09/2007
Microsoft rolled out six security bulletins on its "Patch Tuesday" today, one fewer than expected.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/09/2007
Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2007
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2007
Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/03/2007
Online videos aren't just for bloopers and rants -- some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2007
Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2007
Despite the offering's rocky beginnings, Office Live may still turn out to be a pleasant surprise.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/01/2007
Cavalancia thinks you need to accommodate Web 2.0 and Vista apps.
Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2007
Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to present video advertising that's less annoying to Web surfers.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
Microsoft is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007
Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is mulling an investment in Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more, according to a report published Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it has added 20 new advertising clients since the acquisition of online ad company aQuantive closed six weeks ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
The Distributed Management Task Force, an industry organization advocating the development of interoperable server management, has released Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware 2.0.
European Union regulators will decide before November whether to clear Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion takeover bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick or study the issue further.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/24/2007
The head of a leading security software vendor denounced the use of data files commonly used by Google Inc. and other Web sites to track user activity, saying such sites should seek permission ahead of time.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/19/2007
A computer administrator at one of the nation's largest prescription drug management companies admitted Wednesday he planted an electronic "bomb" in the company's computer system.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/19/2007
The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux.
Although technology companies like to say they can revolutionize any business, many blue-chip vendors have concentrated on selling only to certain businesses: the biggest ones.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/19/2007
Yahoo Inc. is buying e-mail service Zimbra Inc. for $350 million in an all-cash deal that may open a new revenue channel for the slumping Internet icon.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/18/2007
Shares of software maker Adobe Systems Inc. rose Tuesday, a day after reporting its third-quarter profit more than doubled on a 41 percent revenue increase.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/18/2007
Google Docs, which is trying to muscle in on Microsoft's Office suite, has released its PowerPoint counterpart, known as "Google Presentations."
A European court upheld earlier ruling that Microsoft abused its monopoly position on several fronts.
The dozens of entrepreneurs gathered for an exclusive high-tech conference here Monday all hope to dazzle the crowd with their ingenuity.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/17/2007
Transforming critical data from one platform to another has always been the hardest part about migrating to Linux. So why are there so few third-party tools available to help you through the process?
- By Emmett Dulaney
- 09/15/2007
Drawing upon its clout as the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc. is calling on businesses and regulators throughout the world to adopt international standards for protecting consumer privacy online and offline.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/14/2007
Virginia's law banning the massive distribution of junk e-mail is an unconstitutional barrier to free speech, a lawyer for a former spammer told the state's highest court Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2007
A man who used the Internet alias "Iceman" stole credit card and identity information from tens of thousands of people by hacking into the computers of financial institutions and credit card processing centers, federal authorities said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/12/2007
Technology consultancy Capgemini will begin recommending Google Inc.'s online suite of office software to its corporate customers, bolstering the Internet search leader's effort to drum up more sales to big businesses.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/10/2007
Cisco Systems Inc. is still on track to meet its financial targets for the coming years as demand for bandwidth continues to drive network equipment sales, the company's chief financial officer said.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/06/2007
Group devises a more flexible method of handling policy changes for Web services and service-oriented architectures.
Yahoo Inc. is buying online advertising network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, building upon an expansion aimed at ending a financial malaise that has ravaged the Internet pioneer's stock price.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/05/2007
The next beta versions of the products that make up the Windows Live suite were made available today.
Internet criticism of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's involvement in the pardon of a castrated rapist and his heavy use of a state airplane disappeared with a mouse click.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/04/2007
Symantec's chief John W. Thompson talks about co-opetition with Microsoft, the security market landscape and the company's Software as a Service and open source strategies.
- By Ed Scannell and Doug Barney
- 09/01/2007
IT folks are left scratching their heads as messages disappear into e-mail limbo.
Here are some tools to help you protect your privacy on the 'Net.
- By Joern Wettern
- 09/01/2007
Readers weigh in on Linux and Windows Mobile.
- By Readers of Redmond magazine
- 09/01/2007
Although Microsoft didn't mention it in today's announcement about the upcoming release of Windows Vista SP1, the company confirmed today that one of the major changes will be to open up desktop search functionality to competition.
Shares of EarthLink Inc. climbed more than 6 percent Tuesday after the Internet service provider said it would cut 900 jobs -- or about half its work force -- and close four offices in an effort to reduce operating costs.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/28/2007
Levanta is offering a virtual machine version of its Linux life-cycle management product that's similar to the company's flagship physical appliance. The product, called Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance, is available as a free software download.
Blog service providers in China are "encouraged" to register users with their real names and contact information, according to a new government document that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous online blogging.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/22/2007
Microsoft's official stance on the recent Skype outage that left millions of users without phone access for two days last week? "Hey, it's not our fault."
A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/20/2007
American Airlines is suing Google Inc. over the Internet company's sale of keywords ads for rivals triggered by its own trademarks.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2007
Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and its ubiquitous Office software.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/16/2007
Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/13/2007
In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/13/2007
A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. at a meeting in downtown Seattle Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/09/2007
At long last, someone has cracked one of the technology world's biggest mysteries -- the identity of Fake Steve, a sharp-tongued blogger who had tech aficionados in stitches with a satiric diary purporting to be from Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/07/2007
Microsoft's Web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), continues to gain against longtime leader Apache, and could end up surpassing it if current trends continue.
Here are several ways to protect yourself against dangers on the Web.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2007
The jury is out on whether smaller shops can actually work with open source operating systems.
- By Bill Heldman
- 08/01/2007
The state reverses its position on supporting Microsoft's document format.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2007
Not an Office clone, but a way to move the office online.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2007
Microsoft is changing, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday, with new frontiers opening in the areas of advertising, hardware and electronics.
MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site -- more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two states Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/25/2007
Digg Inc., a reader-powered news site, fired Google Inc. as its online advertising partner Wednesday in favor of a company Digg's top executive described as young and willing to take risks: Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/25/2007
Apple Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter profit soared more than 73 percent, fueled by demand for its Macintosh computers and the strength of its iPod media players.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/25/2007
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. soared 26 percent on Wednesday, a day after the Web retailer reported its second-quarter profit more than tripled on strong sales of books, music and electronics.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/25/2007
For some security researchers who uncover flaws in leading computer programs, a nod of appreciation from software companies is no longer enough. Now they want money.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/23/2007
Hopping on the privacy-protection bandwagon, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are limiting how long their Internet search engines retain potentially sensitive data about their users.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/23/2007
Ask.com became the first major search engine to promise users it won't store data on their queries, giving the privacy conscious the option of conducting research on the Internet in relative anonymity.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/20/2007
On-demand software pioneer Salesforce.com has unveiled Salesforce Summer '07, the 23rd upgrade to its customer relationship management solution, which brings with it Apex Code and the company's "Platform as a Service" approach.
Google Inc.'s second-quarter profit climbed 28 percent, but it wasn't enough to fulfill Wall Street's high expectations for the Internet's search leader.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Dell, which has been expanding its distribution channels and offerings over the last several years, broadened its reach even further with the announcement that it's buying SilverBack Technologies.
Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit edged up 7 percent, despite a hefty charge to cover the cost of defective Xbox 360 video game consoles.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Google Inc. is expanding a test program that lets online advertisers buy ad space in newspapers, as the publishing industry struggles to offset business that has moved to the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/19/2007
Microsoft, long stuck in third place behind Google and Yahoo in the search wars, suddenly boosted its share of the market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/18/2007
Microsoft suddenly boosted its share of the search market last month by playing a shrewd game of chicken.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
Google Inc. is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2007
A blogger who sold stock picks to thousands of subscribers has been detained in northern China, as regulators try to reign in freelance operators amid a booming stock market.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2007
Yahoo Inc. took control of online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. on Thursday, giving the slumping Internet portal a head start on rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in a heated race to build more powerful marketing vehicles.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2007
A news site that has allowed its users to write and submit their own articles is shutting down, citing unspecified "business issues."
- By The Associated Press
- 07/12/2007
Microsoft has jumped with both feet into the software plus services end of the pool, announcing the unveiling at its Worldwide Partner Conference this week of Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM.
Averting a looming court battle over how it has been handling the exodus from its Internet dial-up service, AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement with 48 states and the District of Columbia.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/11/2007
Just this week, a security researcher alerted Internet Explorer users (and Microsoft itself) to a new input validation vulnerability in IE 7.0.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/11/2007
Google Inc. is buying e-mail security specialist Postini Inc. for $625 million, fortifying the Internet search leader's effort to sell online software services to corporate customers seeking alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s long-dominant products.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/09/2007
Europe's major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/05/2007
Google remains undaunted in its quest to become a legal player in the battle to keep Windows Vista's desktop search subject to federal scrutiny.
The iPhone hype makes it a natural target -- by scammers looking to sell Apple's first cell phone for a huge markup, and also by hackers looking to add to their bot networks.
Based on Microsoft's model, the open source world evolves its stacks strategy.
From protocol analyzers to vulnerability scanners, here are some tools that can help keep your network secure.
- By Joern Wettern
- 07/01/2007
Readers appreciate the features of Windows Mobile 5.0, but getting it to work consistently on most devices is difficult.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 07/01/2007
Never miss another e-mail notification again.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/01/2007
Internet addresses ending in ".asia" will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October, with general registrations coming in 2008.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
A Microsoft employee who is also an ex-Google employee gave some insight into working conditions at his old job, including the perhaps surprising to some fact that Microsoft is a better place to work.
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday recommended against additional regulation of high-speed Internet traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
Consumer search giant Google is entering a partnership with Ingram Micro Inc. to distribute the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini, according to a Google blog entry on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/27/2007
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.
A federal judge has sided with Microsoft in Google's most recent complaint that Microsoft remedies to open Vista search up to competitors don't go far enough.
New Internet addresses, including those entirely in foreign languages, are under review by a key oversight agency, although meetings this week in Puerto Rico are likely to conclude with more questions.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/25/2007
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.
Key shareholders in Opera Software ASA have reshuffled the board of directors after a reported power struggle between board members and the company's chief executive and founder, Jon S. von Tetzchner.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2007
After a spat between two of the world's largest Internet companies, online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Friday it would resume running advertising through Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2007
Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/22/2007
A North African man and his wife went on trial Wednesday on charges they ran Web sites that supported al-Qaida-linked groups with videos of people killed by terrorists and information on how to make bombs.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/21/2007
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.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is discussing swapping social networking Web site MySpace for a 25 percent stake in Yahoo Inc., The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/20/2007
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."
A common spamming technique of sending unwanted e-mail pitches as image attachments rather than text is on the decline, as spammers continue adapting their methods for sneaking past e-mail filters.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/20/2007
Yahoo Inc. thinks it's back on the right track now that co-founder Jerry Yang has replaced Terry Semel as chief executive, but analysts and investors already are wondering whether the shake-up is just a prelude to more radical measures, including a possible sale or breakup of the troubled Internet icon.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/19/2007
Novell later this week will demonstrate Microsoft’s Silverlight 1.1 browser plug-in running on Linux.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/19/2007
Microsoft Corp. and a major Chinese TV set maker announced Monday they will jointly develop entertainment products linking television and the Internet, joining a race to profit from the Web's growing status as a channel to distribute movies and other programs.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/18/2007
Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel ended his six-year tenure as chief executive officer Monday and will hand over the reins to co-founder Jerry Yang in the Internet icon's latest attempt to regain investor confidence.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/18/2007
A spat that erupted this week between eBay Inc. and Google Inc. after Google tried to siphon attention from the online auctioneer's grand user celebration might presage more tension in one of the Internet's most interesting new rivalries.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/18/2007
Internet advertising will continue to be red-hot into the future, according to a new report, but some cold water was thrown in Google's direction as the same report stated that search-related advertising will lose market share.
In a break with other Internet service providers, AT&T Inc. will work with Hollywood studios and recording labels to devise technology that identifies offshore content pirates who use its network to upload illegal copies of movies and music.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/15/2007
Smaller and newer businesses will now be able to get security certificates that trigger a green address bar in Microsoft browsers under new rules ratified this week.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/14/2007
More than 1 million computers -- possibly yours, too -- are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/14/2007
A man accused of defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was denied bail Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/14/2007
Coming off Yahoo Inc.'s toughest year since the dot-com bust, Chairman Terry Semel remained upbeat Tuesday as he faced shareholders who have watched their investments shrivel while rival Google Inc. sprinted further ahead in the online advertising race.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/13/2007
EU justice chief Franco Frattini said Wednesday that Internet search leader Google Inc. had offered to cut the time it retains data on user searches from the current 24 months to 18 months amid growing concerns it could be violating EU privacy rules.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/13/2007
The biggest news Apple Inc. made yesterday at the opening of its Worldwide Developers Conference was its announcement that it had ported its Safari Web browser to Windows. CEO Steve Jobs called the beta of Safari 3 "the most innovative browser in the world, and the fastest browser on Windows." He could have added "the most insecure browser on Windows" to that list of superlatives.
Making good on its recent promise to take its rich Internet application development environment into the open source arena, Adobe Systems Inc. has released the public beta of its next generation of Flex 3 development tools.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/12/2007
Apple launched a version of Safari for Windows-based PCs, pitting it against Internet Explorer and Firefox.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/11/2007
China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/11/2007
Google has raised the ghost of Microsoft's past -- anti-competitive practices -- in a complaint to the U.S. government about Windows Vista.
Just before Google Inc. went public nearly three years ago, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel assured a roomful of securities analysts and money managers that his company would remain the Internet's brightest star. To punctuate his high hopes, Frank Sinatra's "The Best Is Yet to Come" played in the background.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/11/2007
Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/09/2007
It rains a lot in Portland. So on days when the sun's rays make it all the way to the ground, who wouldn't want to take the city's new free Wi-Fi service for a spin?
- By The Associated Press
- 06/07/2007
Microsoft continues to push forward its program granting amnesty to potential patent violators, this time inking South Korea's LG Electronics (LGE) to a deal.
Apache and IIS are equally at fault for pumping malware into the wild, according to a new study.
Online software pioneer Salesforce.com Inc. will help Internet search leader Google Inc. sell ads as part of a partnership that falls short of Wall Street's anticipation since word of the alliance leaked last month.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/05/2007
Internet search engine Ask.com has been chasing market leader Google Inc. for years without making much headway, but that hasn't deterred its engineers from trying to set the pace for innovation.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/05/2007
Microsoft continues to collect Linux development and distribution companies under its promise not to sue them for patent infringement. Following on the controversial recent deal with Novell, the company announced Monday at its TechEd conference in Orlando that it has reached a similar agreement with Xandros Inc.
Search terms related to music and technology are most likely to return sites with spyware and other malicious code, a new study finds.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/04/2007
Joern shows you how to cover your security bases -- and keep your customers happy.
- By Joern Wettern
- 06/01/2007
Readers chime in on the rise of online news outlets and what that means for print.
- By Readers of Redmond magazine
- 06/01/2007
The blogging world's cream of the crop sets its sights on print. Plus, virtualization keeps movin' on up, and an investment firm toughens up security.
Coffee maker deploys Web-based portal to solve data-sharing problems.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2007
After all the hard lessons it learned from IE, which one will Microsoft pick?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 06/01/2007
Google Inc. has hired a former Justice Department official to lobby the federal government on its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., which is being reviewed by antitrust regulators.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/01/2007
When Google announced its latest foray into an area of software in which Microsoft holds dominance, it was hard to miss the swipes aimed at Redmond. The search giant has decided that it will no longer confine itself to online-only technologies, but wants to live in the offline world and compete with Microsoft there as well.
A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/31/2007
Yahoo Inc.'s chief technology officer is resigning after nearly a decade on the job, creating a management void as the Internet icon tries to mine more profits from a recent upgrade to its system for delivering online ads.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/31/2007
Microsoft Product Manager Nick White announced betas for Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Live Writer.
Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/31/2007
Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/30/2007
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that U.S. regulatory approval of his company's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will not be hindered by concerns over privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/30/2007
As a part of its annual report and SEC 10K filings, Novell has included access to the agreements signed with Microsoft on the distribution of SuSE Linux free of any potential Microsoft patent claims.
- By Peter Varhol
- 05/29/2007
The top executives of Google Inc. and Daum Communications Corp., South Korea's No. 2 Internet search engine, met Tuesday to discuss broadening their partnership, Daum said.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/29/2007
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/29/2007
GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet domain names, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 addresses belonging to customers of a troubled rival, officials announced Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/29/2007
An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/25/2007
What does the "plus" mean in Microsoft's Software Plus Services? A keynote talk by John DeVadoss, director of architecture strategy at Microsoft, provided an explanation. He spoke on the topic, "Software Plus Services: Towards a Model of Differentiated IT" at the Enterprise Architect Summit 2007 event held this week.
In an April cover story, Redmond Developer News examined the defection of IBM's former chief software architect Don Ferguson to Microsoft earlier this year.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/24/2007
Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Americans are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study finds.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/24/2007
If there was any lingering doubt about whether Microsoft's recent announcement to buy online advertising firm aQuantive spelled the end of its dalliance with Yahoo, they were laid to rest yesterday.
The House passed legislation Tuesday to combat the criminal use of Internet spyware and scams aimed at stealing personal information from computer users.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/23/2007
Microsoft has revealed one way it hopes to foster rapid adoption of Silverlight, its new technology for building rich Internet applications.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/21/2007
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/21/2007
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.
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/17/2007
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.
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
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.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/16/2007
New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/11/2007
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a minority stake in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/10/2007
Microsoft Corp. has signed deals with Volvo Car Corp. and whisky maker Chivas Brothers Ltd. to support two new Web-only video series from Reveille, the production company behind TV shows "The Office" and "Ugly Betty."
- By The Associated Press
- 05/09/2007
When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas last week, the new cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content lacked support for the popular Opera Web browser.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/08/2007
Sun Microsystems today unveiled a new product line at its annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco. Built on and around Java, JavaFX is aimed at the growing market for rich Internet applications (RIA).
- By John K. Waters
- 05/08/2007
Windows Vista's mail client is obsolete after just a few months of life as a commercial product.
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/07/2007
Microsoft, perhaps stung by its failure to buy online advertising giant DoubleClick in recent months, announced that it has bought European company ScreenTonic SA, a mobile advertising company.
Microsoft is said to be resuming its pursuit of search engine operator Yahoo, which will help it better compete with search leader Google.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/04/2007
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007
IdentityMine has released a community technology preview, or CTP, of a toolset for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers called "Blendables."
This month, readers chime in on Microsoft and open source, and sound off about the Office UI.
- By Readers of Redmond magazine
- 05/01/2007
If Microsoft can't even explain its SaaS strategy, how can it expect anyone to buy into it?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 05/01/2007
Web filtering is problematic at best, but iPrism puts up a solid defense.
- By Bill Heldman
- 05/01/2007
Instant Messaging (IM) makes tactical communication a snap, but too often IM serves as a doorway for hackers. Here's how IT can wrestle with the problem.
Readers rave about the new and improved Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 05/01/2007
Microsoft today announced Silverlight Streaming, a media-hosting service the company says will allow developers to stream into their Silverlight apps high-quality video and other media stored for free on Redmond's servers.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 04/30/2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
An anti-spam organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday targeting so-called spam harvesters, who facilitate the mass distribution of junk e-mail by trolling the Internet and collecting millions of e-mail addresses.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
Component vendor Telerik announced this week that it is readying a set of tools for creating applications with Microsoft's Silverlight rich media plug-in, formerly code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E).
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/27/2007
Google Inc. yanked paid advertisements linked to some 20 search terms that online criminals had hijacked to steal banking and other personal information from Web surfers looking for the Better Business Bureau and other sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
A growing number of financial services firms are embarking on open source projects, but they are moving cautiously when it comes to mission-critical applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2007
A provider of Internet addressing services hopes to unify how you navigate the Web when using different browsers and computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/26/2007
In a major salvo that ups the stakes in the emerging battle for mindshare among developers and architects building Rich Internet Applications, Adobe today said it is releasing its Flex SDK into the open source community.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/26/2007
A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records -- twice in two days. Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/25/2007
A consumer group asked the Federal Trade Commission Friday to investigate and block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. unless the companies improve consumer privacy protections.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/23/2007
Just like its Internet-leading search engine has a knack for finding the information people ask for, Google Inc. keeps giving Wall Street what it wants -- scintillating earnings growth that eclipses analyst estimates quarter after quarter.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/20/2007
Investors were falling in love with Yahoo Inc. again until the Internet icon's disheartening first-quarter results ruined the mood.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint program as the two companies vie to dominate the online experience.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint program.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
Microsoft isn't taking Google's proposed purchase of DoubleClick lying down.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
Vonage Holdings Corp. is delivering conflicting messages on its ability to deploy a substitute technology should the Internet phone provider lose its bid to overturn a jury's verdict that it infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.'s patents.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 04/16/2007
Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
The boards of both companies have approved the takeover, which is expected to close by the end of the year.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
There are now 3.5 million AJAX developers worldwide, a 50 percent increase over the past year, based on results of a survey that will be released next week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/12/2007
The latest version of Opera's Web browser lets visitors see mini versions of their nine favorite sites at a glance. Click on any thumbnail to load the full site.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
Agence France-Presse, a global news agency based in Paris, has settled its lawsuit against Google Inc. and will allow the Internet search leader to post news and photos from AFP journalists.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/09/2007
A parliamentary commission approved a proposal Thursday allowing Turkey to block Web sites that are deemed insulting to the founder of modern Turkey, weeks after a Turkish court temporarily barred access to YouTube.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/05/2007
We still don't know all that much about the scope of the vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows Animated Cursor handling implementation, but -- based on Redmond's responsiveness thus far -- it seems like a doozy.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/02/2007
Google's replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a "great injustice" to the storm's victims, a congressional subcommittee said.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007
Hackers stepped up attacks Friday on computers running some versions of Windows, a day after Microsoft disclosed a hole related to the mouse cursor.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007
Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley's most famous billionaires a good sense of humor -- and a case of corporate potty mouth.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007
The ink hasn't dried on good, old-fashioned journalism.
Deal with 1&1 offers Web hosters low-cost open source alternative.
Microsoft this week announced the launch of ZenZui, an independent company partially funded by Microsoft created to market ZenZui's Zooming User Interface, which was patented by Microsoft and was first developed in the Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Research lab.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/29/2007
A committee of the Internet's key oversight agency agreed Wednesday to form a new working group that would examine how to offer more privacy to small businesses and people with individual Web sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/29/2007
In another reminder of technology's quantum leaps, Yahoo Inc.'s free e-mail service will provide unlimited storage space to its nearly 250 million users worldwide -- a concept that seemed unfathomable just a few years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/29/2007
Microsoft's Live Labs applied research group announced Wednesday it is making a limited number of previews available for a new mobile browser technology it has intriguingly dubbed "Deepfish."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/29/2007
Microsoft announced Monday it has bought out devBiz Business Solutions, a company that specializes in software development tools and components for professional .NET developers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/27/2007
The key oversight agency for Internet addresses is reviewing the way it oversees businesses that sell domain names in the wake of financial and operational problems that left customers of one company nameless.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/27/2007
A new version of Adobe Systems Inc.'s Creative Suite software will go on sale next month, a launch that executives have billed as the most significant in the company's 25-year history.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/27/2007
Neiman Marcus Group Inc. is suing a pair of domain name companies, accusing them of improperly registering more than 40 Internet addresses that resemble the department store chain's trademarks.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/26/2007
The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it will study the business practices of high-speed Internet providers and consider adopting regulations to ensure all Web traffic is treated equally.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/23/2007
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a decision by the Federal Communications Commission that barred states, including Minnesota, from regulating Internet-based phone services.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/22/2007
Adobe announced it is shipping an alpha release of its "Apollo" cross-operating system Web applications platform, with commercial release scheduled for later this year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/22/2007
In an attempt to pull its search efforts out of a slow spiral, Microsoft Wednesday formed a new group to focus on search and advertising, and named two executives to head it.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/22/2007
Many owners of Internet addresses face this quandary: Provide your real contact information when you register a domain name and subject yourself to junk or harassment. Or enter fake data and risk losing it outright.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/20/2007
In a move that promises to facilitate interoperability of AJAX-based applications developed with different tools and frameworks, Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has joined the OpenAJAX Alliance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/20/2007
AOL is offering users of its AIM instant messaging service new capabilities to see where people on their buddy lists are physically located.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
The United States generates more malicious computer activity than any other country
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
Gates said Microsoft was helping set up computer learning centers in areas where demobilized paramilitary fighters are in dire need of job training.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
The United States generates more malicious computer activity than any other country, and sophisticated hackers worldwide are banding together in highly efficient crime rings, according to a new report.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/19/2007
Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them -- a thorny issue that provoked a showdown with the U.S. government last year.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2007
Microsoft this week began shipping the release candidate for Expression Blend, its new design tool for building Windows user interfaces using the .NET Framework 3.0’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/15/2007
Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/15/2007
Lenovo Group Ltd. became the first computer maker to agree to pre-load Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live toolbar
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Microsoft will buy Tellme Networks, which provides voice-enabled mobile search, directory assistance and computerized, speech-driven customer service hotlines.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Lenovo Group Ltd. became the first computer maker to agree to pre-load Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live toolbar and make its search portal the main service on all new computers worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the popular video-sharing site YouTube and its corporate parent, Google Inc., on Tuesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims of widespread copyright infringement.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/13/2007
At its annual Convergence conference this week, Microsoft will put into place the final pieces of its Dynamics ERP strategy by announcing a handful of new applications and partner programs aimed largely at small and medium-size companies (SMBs).
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday suspended trading in 35 companies whose shares were touted in e-mail spam campaigns.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/09/2007
Sweden's government presented plan to allow defense intelligence agency to monitor e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/08/2007
The executive who led Microsoft Corp.'s Web search division is leaving the his post with the software maker to start his own business.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Best Buy is under investigation by Connecticut's attorney general after consumers complained they were denied deals found at the electronic retailer's Web site by store employees who pulled up a lookalike site that listed higher prices on some merchandise.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/07/2007
Sometimes, the unfashionable choice is smart the smart one.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 03/01/2007
Your DNS is a sweet spot for hackers who want to compromise your network; learn to protect it.
- By Joern Wettern
- 03/01/2007
Even if you never have to use these, it's good just to know they're there.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 03/01/2007
It's a wild, eat-or-be-eaten world.
Google's cash cow search engine -- Google Search -- continued to pull ahead of all competitors in usage growth in the U.S. during January, and managed a whopping 40.6 percent year over year growth rate, according to two recent surveys.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007
Ray Ozzie says Microsoft will answer with plans that more than mimic its rivals successes.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/28/2007
Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/27/2007
Microsoft Corp. put its hat further into the healthcare ring by launching its Microsoft Developer Network Healthcare Industry Center.
Microsoft Monday announced its intent to buy out Medstory Inc., a privately held company that develops intelligent Web search technologies for health information.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/27/2007
As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/26/2007
About one-third of Internet users in the U.S. have used a wireless connection to surf the Web or check e-mail, according to a survey released Sunday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/26/2007
Extortion, illegal computer access among charges against quartet who claimed to have MySpace-monitoring software that could be used for nefarious purposes.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/26/2007
Some European countries are proposing outlawing the use of fake information to open e-mail accounts or set up Web sites, a move intended to help terror investigations but which could face resistance on a privacy-conscious continent.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/26/2007
Microsoft announced it is shipping final versions of six tools to aid in deployment of Windows Vista and Office 2007, although some had been previously released.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/21/2007
A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers to data thieves. Google fixed the defect within weeks of being informed about it and says it has no evidence the vulnerability was exploited.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/21/2007
A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/20/2007
More than 1,700 state workers recently learned that some of their personal information, including their names and Social Security numbers, had been inadvertently posted on the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/20/2007
A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers to data thieves.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/20/2007
How secure is your AJAX? This book can help you avoid the security pitfalls.
- By Rita Zurcher
- 02/15/2007
Consumer advocates on Tuesday said federal regulators need to increase oversight of telephone and cable companies that offer Internet access to ensure they aren't discriminating against certain providers of video and other Web content.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/14/2007
Change in Daylight Savings Time this year may cause many software programs to malfunction, warns software makers.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/13/2007
At Yahoo's finance site, stock quotes update automatically and continually, the numbers flashing green and red as prices rise and fall. Wall Street investors can easily leave a single Web page up all day.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/12/2007
Cisco Systems Inc., whose core business is selling the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, said it has acquired a small social networking company that allows businesses to create MySpace-like communities on their Web sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/12/2007
Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers, nearly three years after the online search leader shook up the Internet by offering users an unprecedented amount of free storage and displaying ads based on the content of the correspondence.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
VeriSign Inc., which manages the ".com" and ".net" domain names registry and ensures Internet users can reach those locations, said it will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
Robert Metcalf, inventor of Ethernet, among honorees.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/08/2007
VeriSign will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/07/2007
On February 2, Microsoft released the February CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a cross-platform browser plug-in that allows clients to display and play back rich media, 3D and vector graphics, animation, audio and video.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/06/2007
Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Two former midlevel executives at America Online were acquitted Tuesday on all counts of charges that they conspired with a now-defunct Las Vegas software firm to inflate its revenue with secret side deals and backdated contracts.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
It's a Web-savvy world out there, so getting the most out of any solution will require vigilance on your part.
- By Bill Heldman
- 02/01/2007
Google Inc. has grown into a financial juggernaut so quickly its extraordinary growth is starting to look routine -- a phenomenon making it more difficult for the online search leader to impress investors.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/01/2007
Innovative Web 2.0 firms are storming the next IT battleground.
- By Carolyn April
- 02/01/2007
Company to fortify Apps Domain platform.
American technology giants urged the U.S. government Tuesday to do more to confront China and other countries about Internet censorship.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/31/2007
Microsoft has said that getting third-party developers to build their own applications on top of its Web services will help push its Windows Live initiative over the top. So far, however, despite some interesting applications mashups, the Live community has been a little murky on the details.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/31/2007
To accompany the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft yesterday announced the final release of a toolkit for assuring that applications will run correctly under the new system.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/31/2007
Microsoft Corp.'s rivals renewed their call Friday on EU regulators to act against what they say are "illegal practices," alleging that the new Vista operating system is the company's attempt to extend its monopoly to the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2007
Microsoft is shipping a Firefox plug-in version of its Photosynth 3D photo processing software technology preview.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/25/2007
Microsoft cash offer raises question: What's wrong with accepting money to write on Wikipedia?
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust lawsuit filed by the distributor of Morpheus file-sharing software against Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA, eBay Inc. and other defendants.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Critics charge that Redmond giant's pay-to-edit approach with online encyclopedia's articles breaks spirit that Wiki community has been built on since inception.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2007
Six months after announcing a telecommunications alliance, Microsoft and Nortel this week presented some early results of their efforts and outlined a roadmap for future projects.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/18/2007
Don Ferguson, whom some observers refer to as the "Father of WebSphere," has joined Redmond as a Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy in the Office of the CTO, according to statements posted online.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/17/2007
Microsoft recently announced that, as of January 8, 100 million users have installed Internet Explorer 7.0.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/16/2007
The United Nations will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet, the head of the U.N. telecommunications agency said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
The Web site of Belgium's Defense Ministry was hacked Sunday by a group of Turkish nationalists, news reports said.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
So far, when it comes to making money, the online video explosion is mostly about potential. Studios selling TV shows and movies for download, and Web sites like YouTube that link ads to user-generated content, stand to reap billions from the Internet's hottest trend.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/15/2007
First, it was search. Now, the battleground is shifting to the desktop.
- By Carolyn April
- 01/11/2007
At the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced that its Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) group has released its MSN Direct navigation services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/09/2007
A 17-year-old has been detained by Venezuelan authorities after hacking into multiple government Web sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/05/2007
Microsoft quietly announced this week that it has released version 1.5 of its Windows Live OneCare security and antivirus offering to manufacturing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2007
Flaw found in Adobe' Acrobat PDF format appears to target IE, Firefox browsers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/03/2007
This weekend Microsoft will reportedly announce a deal with automaker Ford Motor Company to get in "Synch."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/02/2007
Microsoft's assault on a myriad of markets leaves third parties scrambling.
- By Carolyn April and Ed Scannell
- 01/01/2007
After a frenzied start, why is Live now laying low?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 01/01/2007
Resolution: Be hacker-safe.
Some answers are much more than a few mouse clicks away.
Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi and Marcia Kaufman explain Service Oriented Architecture in this book for "Dummies."
Despite patent filings, Microsoft Corp. isn't trying to claim all rights to
the Really Simple Syndication technology for notifying users of new entries
on their favorite news sites and Web journals, a lead product manager says.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/28/2006
Microsoft Corp. has started linking users' search habits with other personal
information as it prepares to show more personalized advertisements.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/28/2006
Beginning next month, version 7 of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser
will start flagging certain e-commerce and banking sites as green for "safe."
- By The Associated Press
- 12/28/2006
The company is interested in improving users' RSS experience, but not in claiming the technology as a whole, a Microsoft official said.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
E-commerce and online banking sites will be required to undergo extensive verification checks.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
Spammers' focus has shifted from open relays to infected "zombie" computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/25/2006
Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google Inc.'s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world's books, art and historical documents.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/20/2006
Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/18/2006
Firefox 2.0 has been out for less than two months but Mozilla.org developers have already released alpha code for the next major version.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/13/2006
IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/13/2006
Microsoft Corp. today announced a bevy of patches -- seven, in all -- that address vulnerabilities in its Visual Studio IDE and Windows operating environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2006
U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/11/2006
As Windows Vista becomes more secure against known threats, it's what hackers and cybercriminals devise in the next generation of attacks that keeps Microsoft on its toes.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/10/2006
Google Inc., a company synonymous with searching the Internet, hopes to define far more of the world's computing experience with a helping hand from schoolchildren.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/03/2006
Finding the right tool for the job can be difficult and finding it for free next to impossible. But standing next to impossible is the Redmond Free Top 25. We think it can make your search a lot easier.
- By Greg Shields
- 12/01/2006
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will expand its program to give people access to the Internet in libraries and other public places to two Eastern European countries and the African nation of Botswana.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/30/2006
Three Net tracking firms have released their October figures for search engine popularity and they all show Microsoft continuing to lose ground with users while Google continues to gain, according to SearchEngineWatch.com.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/28/2006
There's a new way to send large movie, music and other files without worrying about whether the e-mail systems can handle large attachments.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/22/2006
Tired of waiting for Windows Vista? Got an MSDN Premium subscription? Well, there you go.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/16/2006
As expected, Microsoft today issued six patches for a variety of security issues, including an XML vulnerability considered to be "zero day."
Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Singapore teen faces 3 years' jail for tapping into another's wireless Internet.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Sun Microsystems releases its Java technology as open-source project.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/13/2006
Advanced security bulletin refers to an XML flaw and five other Windows flaws deemed "critical"; unknown whether security rollup addresses recent Visual Studio flaw.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/09/2006
Think of it as Wikipedia for the workplace. Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, now wants to provide businesses with software to create blogging, wiki and news feed services to connect employees on collaborative projects.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/09/2006
In January, Indian mobile users will have access to Microsoft's search engine; service announced as part of Microsoft $1.7 billion investment in the country.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/08/2006
Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its online mapping service to include three-dimensional tours of 15 U.S. cities, marking another step in its dogged pursuit of Internet search leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
Adobe Systems Inc. is contributing some of the computer code behind its widely used Flash player to the Mozilla Foundation so that it can be improved upon and blended into an upcoming version of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
For years, computer security software lurked in the background and tried to stop viruses and other malicious programs as they attack your computer. Newer products are trying to keep users from reaching Web sites before the programs can even launch an attack, essentially stopping threats at the source.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
Police in Chile arrested four suspected computer hackers for allegedly belonging to a group accused of breaking into thousands of government Web sites around the globe, including NASA's.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/07/2006
Security vendor, as well as competitors, will offer ways to defend against phishing sites and other Internet attacks.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/06/2006
An online media and advertising company accused of unfairly and deceptively downloading its software onto consumers' computers has agreed to pay a $3 million fine to the Federal Trade Commission.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/06/2006
Microsoft and Zend Technologies are joining forces to improve the performance of PHP-based applications running on Windows Server 2003, the two companies disclosed on Tuesday.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/02/2006
Total Traffic Control puts you at the helm of your network traffic.
IP version 6 is poised to revolutionize networking. Here's why you should care and what you need to do to get ready.
Internet search leader Google and other major U.S. technology companies insisted Tuesday that their products benefit Chinese citizens despite government restrictions and warnings that online censorship is spreading.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/01/2006
Microsoft Corp. is preparing to officially release software that helps small companies do things like build a Web site and maintain business contacts, and plans to link the product to its platform for selling online advertising.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2006
Online small biz software service will launch simultaneously in France, Germany, Japan and UK.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2006
Google Inc. said Monday that it wants Microsoft Corp. to make sure users can easily choose Internet search engines in future products -- but Google refused to say if changes Microsoft has already made to its upcoming operating system, Vista, have gone far enough.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2006
Company wants Vista to include variety of search engines, but refuses to call Microsoft to the carpet officially.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2006
Narus Inc., a maker of network technology to monitor phone and Internet traffic, or even help block certain communications like a Skype call, said Monday it has raised $30 million in new capital to fund development of next-generation products and expand overseas sales.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2006
Microsoft today acknowledged that one of two IE7 security flaws alleged by Denmark-based security firm Secunia could leave systems vulnerable.
Hoping to leave an even bigger imprint on the Internet, Google Inc. is opening up its vast online index so other Web sites can build their own specialty search engines.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2006
Counterpane co-founded by cryptologist Bruce Schneier
- By The Associated Press
- 10/25/2006
Hacking into client accounts being investigated by FBI; other brokerage houses also affected.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006
Google and others say they want search info to help combat copyright infringement, but are denied by the online retailer due to "trade secrets" concerns.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006
Newest version of IE challenger improves on search and spyware catching.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/24/2006
Less than a week after Microsoft shipped the long awaited Internet Explorer 7, it's Mozilla's turn. Final code for Firefox 2 officially became available for download on Tuesday afternoon.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/24/2006
Key aspects of Amazon.com Inc.'s retailing Web site are improperly built on technologies developed at IBM Corp., Big Blue alleged Monday in two lawsuits against Amazon.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/23/2006
In return for allowing Google to display site-related ad links, site can now customize Google searches.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/23/2006
e360 Insight's request to have Spamhaus domain name suspended rejected by U.S. judge.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/20/2006
While the big news is that Microsoft finally began shipping Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP on Wednesday, IE's main browser competitor hit a major milestone of its own just two days before.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/19/2006
Yahoo Inc. shares fell Wednesday after reporting a drop in its third-quarter profit and saying it will end a disappointing year with a financial letdown in the fourth quarter.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/19/2006
Anti-spam group facing possible loss of domain name plans to appeal $12M judgment.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2006
Microsoft hasn’t yet officially announced final shipping code for Internet Explorer 7, but Yahoo says it already posted its customized version of the final code today.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2006
An anti-spam group plans to appeal a federal court ruling that could jeopardize its domain name after ignoring a lawsuit earlier on jurisdictional grounds.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/18/2006
Just hours after Yahoo posted the golden code for its customized version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP on the Web, Microsoft has announced that IE7 is immediately available for download.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2006
Call them the M & Ms -- Microsoft and Mozilla, that is. Both are readying major new versions of their browsers --Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 -- for release in the next few weeks.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/12/2006
Google Inc. snapped up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion Monday in deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a leading role in the online video revolution.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2006
Borland says it is readying a new application lifecycle quality management (LQM) solution that is based on its existing Caliber products as well as two sets of products it recently acquired.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/04/2006
Microsoft and EMC Corp. announced this week they are further expanding their cooperative marketing relationship by working to integrate Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the storage company's Documentum content management product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/04/2006
The online-payment service PayPal will simplify its user agreement and better inform users about fraud protection under an agreement announced Thursday with 28 state attorneys general.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2006
The U.S. Commerce Department promised Friday to take more of a hands-off approach to the Internet as it extended for three years its oversight of a California organization that handles network-address issues.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2006
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to plant its Internet search engine on millions of computers, the latest volley in a high-stakes battle with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2006
Niall Kennedy, touted as an important hire for Microsoft's Live effort, talks about what went wrong during his short tenure.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2006
With IE 7 due to go live shortly, it's time to start speculating about the next versions!
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/01/2006
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has released the first beta of its Forefront Security package for SharePoint, the company's portal technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/28/2006
Google services were slow or inaccessible to some users Tuesday. The cause of the glitch was not immediately known, nor were any details available on how widespread it was.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/26/2006
A key Microsoft executive disclosed this week that the coming Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 may not be totally compatible with Windows Vista -- though it remains unclear what his statements mean.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/26/2006
IBM announced it is shipping version 6 of its Workplace Web Content Management package, which aims to provide a tightly integrated Web content management and portal solution to, among other things, compete with Microsoft's SharePoint technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/21/2006
The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday it will extend its oversight of the California organization that handles domain name policies, while finding ways to improve the group's accountability and transparency.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/20/2006
Worldwide use of DSL technology for broadband access rose 38 percent to around 164 million users in the year to June 30, 2006 boosted by strong growth in the European Union, industry trade group said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/19/2006
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/19/2006
Microsoft Corp. is hoping to tap the explosive popularity of online video sharing by joining startups and major Internet rivals with its own video service.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/19/2006
Microsoft's announcement on Monday that its long-awaited Windows Live Search service is officially out of beta test and ready for use signals its biggest move to date to challenge search giant Google for both consumers and businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/13/2006
To encourage adoption of Web services by developers, including open source projects, Microsoft has announced a promise not to sue for use of its proprietary XML specifications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/13/2006
Users who have wanted to save Microsoft Office documents in Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) were frustrated earlier this year when Redmond announced it would not include the capability as a native function in Office 2007 as it had previously announced.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/12/2006
Securing files, e-mails, Web sites and crazy soccer fans is a tall order.
We put these rivals' tools to the test in a win, lose or draw contest. The overall winner just might surprise you.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2006
Mary Jo lists her 10 favorite blogs by Microsoft employees.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 09/01/2006
Microsoft's recent acquisition of SSL VPN provider Whale could be a good catch for remote access.
- By Joern Wettern
- 09/01/2006
There seems to be no end to Microsoft's appetite for acquisitions and new markets.
Major enhancements to ISA Server 2006 include better bandwidth controls and improved monitoring.
Television should consider Google a friend, not foe, a senior company executive says.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/31/2006
Microsoft hired 10,000 new employees in fiscal 2006, which ended on June 30 -- the most ever in a single year in the company's more than 31-year history.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/30/2006
Apple Computer Inc. said Tuesday that Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt is joining its board, adding another well-known name to the list of high-profile directors who oversee the management of the company behind the iPod portable player and Macintosh computer.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/30/2006
Whoops. In an apparent repeat of the revelation of Office 2007 pricing earlier this year, Amazon.com and Microsoft Canada seem to have lowered the veil on prices for Windows Vista's various incarnations a bit early.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/29/2006
An industry group of wireless networking companies said Tuesday it will start certifying next-generation routers and network cards in 2007, a year before official standards are expected.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/29/2006
Microsoft Corp.'s answer to Apple's iPod will be built by Toshiba Corp., the software company confirmed Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/25/2006
A 19-year-old Michigan man who ran an Internet business selling retro sports jerseys was sentenced Friday to 30 months in federal prison for recruiting a New Jersey teen to carry out computer attacks against competitors.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/25/2006
Wall Street values Hewlett-Packard Co. at $98 billion. Its rival, Sun Microsystems Inc., values Hewlett and Packard at a mere $6,000.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/25/2006
Microsoft has begun shipping the first release candidate of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP, putting the first major update of the company's browser in years on track for final release on schedule.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/24/2006
Salesforce.com has acquired a four-person startup specializing in paid search technology that will be tailored to work with the online business applications of Salesforce.
Microsoft executives may have a hard time talking about open source software without getting their blood up, but the company appears to be taking a pragmatic approach when it comes to Windows Vista and the growing popularity of the Firefox browser.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/22/2006
Although Carly Fiorina was sacked in one of the most humbling ousters in corporate America, her initial moves to reinvigorate Hewlett-Packard Co. are now paying off in HP's healthy profit and recent stock surge.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Dell Inc. on Thursday posted disappointing second-quarter earnings amid a regulatory probe.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/17/2006
Microsoft has released the first beta test version of its coming entry into the realm of blog publishing tools based on a familiar theme: "What you see is what you get" or WYSIWYG.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/15/2006
Google is issuing this warning to people who try to click on links to sites with spyware and other malicious code: "The site you are about to visit may harm your computer!"
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2006
Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/10/2006
A recent high-profile Microsoft hire, brought onboard to work on Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Windows Live vision, has suddenly announced his pending departure, citing a pullback on plans he had signed on to implement.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/10/2006
As the competition for information management and control platforms heats up, IBM announced late this week that it will acquire content management vendor FileNet in a deal valued at $1.6 billion in cash.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/10/2006
Microsoft announced this week at the SpeechTEK 2006 conference in New York that it will integrate the full capabilities of its Speech Server 2007 into Office Communications Server 2007.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/08/2006
When Microsoft Corp. said it planned to begin checking for pirated copies of its Windows operating system using the method it set up to send people security fixes, even some of the company's traditional critics could sympathize.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/04/2006
A group of industry leaders this week announced a new draft specification aimed at simplifying IT administration across heterogeneous networked environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 08/03/2006
An unusual merger is adding loads of cash to St. Bernard Software's coffer, which will be used to build new products and buy up security vendors, said company CEO John Jones in an interview this week.
Taking its most expansive efforts yet to deal with its long, steady decline in subscribers, AOL is giving away e-mail accounts along with software previously available only to customers who paid as much as $26 a month.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/02/2006
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
Are you the master of your Windows domain?
- By Doug Barney and Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2006
China is trying to tighten control over foreign investors in Internet ventures in a crackdown that a state newspaper said Friday could see some companies stripped of operating licenses.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/30/2006
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
AOL co-founder Steve Case has offered a qualified apology for his role in architecting the online company's disastrous combination with Time Warner Inc. "Yes, I'm sorry I did it," Case said on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" last Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/27/2006
Wall Street looks to grill Microsoft on spending this week, as profits drop. Google, on the other hand, keeps on rollin' in the green.
The company responsible for introducing millions of people to the Internet is poised to undergo a transformation that would likely accelerate its decline as a gatekeeper of access to the information superhighway.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/25/2006
Microsoft acquires Windows toolmaker Winternals and cult hero Russinovich, Firefox 2.0 betas and Microsoft pulls free new Private Folder tool.
Google's second-quarter profit more than doubled, maintaining the Internet search leader's penchant for topping analysts' high expectations and further underscoring the advantage the company has built over its chief rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/20/2006
Microsoft will ship early next month an update to its Web hosting package that takes advantage of recently released products and technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2006
While the stock market sits on pins and needles worried over any further delays in major Microsoft products, some users apparently are tired of waiting -- at least when it comes to browsers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/11/2006
Microsoft seeks to end system software conflicts with SoftGrid.
- By Greg Shields
- 07/01/2006
Joern demystifies common misconceptions about SSL and complex passwords.
- By Joern Wettern
- 07/01/2006
No one can quite agree on whether Microsoft Corp. held its first online advertising summit in a conference room or a cafeteria, but what everyone does remember is how little attention was paid to the field just seven years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Google Inc. is hoping to pressure Microsoft Corp. into changing a new Internet Explorer browser feature that could direct more people to Microsoft's online search engine instead of Google's far more popular offering.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/02/2006
Google Inc., the top online search engine, is unveiling a calendar service that allows users to store appointments online, receive reminders about them and share those plans with others.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2006
Internet Explorer is one of the most used products in nearly every environment, but most administrators know little
about how to tune it for best
performance and safety.
- By Greg Shields
- 10/01/2005
Where do we go from here?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/01/2004
Boot-up is a dangerous time for your systems, a time before security policies to protect them may be active. Avoid danger with persistent policies.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 06/01/2004
How Microsoft is like the fairy tale.
These networks aren’t well known by many, yet they’re responsible for controlling much in our lives. And they’re not very secure.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 05/01/2004
Maturity in management comes at different stages.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/01/2004
How does outsourcing--or how will it--affect you?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/01/2004
How to move the default directories created by IIS from the system drive. Plus, methods to make FTP more secure.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 04/01/2004
Software Restriction Policies is a terrific new security tool—if you know what it can’t do, as well as what it can.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2004
Why some things--and people--are just unlikable.
Computer networks allow people to share resources, but computer security prevents access to resources. How to decide if you need PKI, and a step-by-step guide to installing PKI on your servers.
Chances are, you work for a company that’s involved in outsourcing in some form. The question you need to answer for yourself is whether that’s such a bad thing.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/01/2004
Are you role-playing with your network? If not, you’re missing a powerful way to make it more secure.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 03/01/2004
What business is Microsoft in, anyhow?
There's a bright future ahead for those taking training courses.
- By Kristen Kazarian
- 03/01/2004
If you think today’s PC hardware is astounding, stick around for a decade.
Getting user buy-in for security is critical. Using certificate autoenrollment is a way to make it pain-free.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/01/2004
Is it time to set your own code of ethics?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/2004
New frontiers for certification
Separation of duties is a good idea in the business world. It’s also a good one in the IT world.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2004
Here are five things you can do right now— this minute—that will increase security on your networks.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2004
Could WinFS be the salvation?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/01/2003
How we're being tested—now and in the future.
What to do about the ongoing to-do list.
Windows Server 2003 provides a way to implement trusts among Certification Authority hierarchies selectively. Here’s how it works.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 11/01/2003
Sometimes things are not what they appear.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/01/2003
Of bowling and certifications.
What credentials could offer in the future.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/01/2003
Setting up forest trusts can be tricky. Here’s a step-by-step instruction guide.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 10/01/2003
And just what do we go through on a daily basis, anyway?
There is another side of the coin for IT employment.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/01/2003
Trusts have changed significantly on Windows Server 2003, including the concept of forest trusts. Here's a primer.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 09/01/2003
Windows Server 2003 installs fewer services by default, and installs others in a disabled state. Here’s a guide to what they do, and whether you might need them or not.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 08/01/2003
How much can you handle to get secure?
“One thing we’ll be talking a fair bit about today is the relationship between the PC and the phone. That’s something that will be changing. When you get value added on your PC without having to switch the phone that you use simply by having the PC be aware of what’s going on, that integration, we think, is a very critical one and one that’s influencing the PC hardware.”
—Bill Gates at WinHEC 2003
Microsoft sets new securityspecializations for MCSE and MCSA titles.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/01/2003
Securely bringing a Windows file server on the network may not sound difficult. But when it's running Windows Server 2003, there's a lot you need to know to do it right.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/01/2003
Office XP is a big product, one that requires close scrutiny to properly lock down.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 06/01/2003
Your faithful correspondent contemplates exam economics.
Will you accept or decline the latest offer?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/01/2003
There are special considerations when bringing up the first domain controller in the first domain of your new Windows 2003 forest.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 05/01/2003
Put your "Make Money Fast" where your mouth is, Microsoft!
“You never leave a recession on the same technology that you entered it."
—Gordon Moore, circa 1984
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/01/2003
Experience and age are tops in slowed IT market.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/01/2003
John needed a way to track and produce management-style reports on patches across his enterprise. Roberta to the rescue!
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2003
How fast will your company move to Windows Server 2003?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/01/2003
.NET track changes trigger waves of response; how paper MCSEs are a benefit to IT; and more reasons to like Microsoft.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 03/01/2003
Microsoft heavily touted its Common Criteria certification for Windows 2000. But what does that mean?
- By Roberta Bragg
- 03/01/2003
Quick test: Have you ever used a "braindump" for exam preparation? The answer to that question may not be as simple as a "yes" or "no."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/01/2003
Tech workers span the spectrum of industry, from fast food to furniture.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/2003
You know about security for networks and laptops. But what about security for hand-helds? What? You don't have a plan?
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/01/2003
OK, so maybe Licensing 6.0 wasn't such a stupid idea after all.
Scripting tools; upgrading to .NET; .NET by any other name.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 02/01/2003
DBA vs. programmer; thumbs down on the new look; one-page résumés.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 01/01/2003
Microsoft is touting its next-generation secure computing infrastructure as a giant leap for mankind. Not everyone agrees.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2003
Expect the unexpected: Key certification track to be retooled for 2003, which may affect current MCSA/MCSE candidates.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/03/2002
Fashion plate; reading the fine print; demystifying printing for users.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 12/01/2002
Getting the job done often means accomplishing what you can within the constraints of real-world resources and budgets.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/01/2002
Mission-Critical Active Directory addresses the intricacies of this complex topic.
- By Yolanda R. Reid
- 12/01/2002
So many security toys, so little time.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 12/01/2002
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- By Roberta Bragg
- 12/01/2002
Systems Management Server 2003, in beta now, to be integrated into .NET. universe.
Helping others get more than a foot in the IT door.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/01/2002
Implement Group Policy to automate the process of locking down domain controllers.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 11/01/2002
Licensing confusion, and more salary survey feedback.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 11/01/2002
Each new version of Windows seems to introduce a new file system. Is Longhorn the end of it?
Readers chime in on salary surveys; exam-testing skills; licensing; and exerting buying influence.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 10/01/2002
It took three separate attempts to finally upgrade my company to Exchange 2000—this after doing the upgrade in a lab environment and upgrading a pilot box with the IT department on it...
- By Cynthia Balusek
- 10/01/2002
Securing your servers by using templates isn't child's play. In her second installment on this topic, Roberta finds a parallel to a game.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 10/01/2002
How do you like our new look?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/01/2002
Have you read your EULAs lately?
Security checklists are valuable—but only if you use them. Follow along on Microsoft’s list and harden a server.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 09/01/2002
A controlled security challenge still provides valuable lessons.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/01/2002
Maybe they already broke up the company and we didn’t notice.
If you want to do IT security because it’s “hot” right now, or because you think that’s where the money is, forget it. If you truly love the field, read on.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 08/01/2002
"Windowsville" residents chime in on the "which OS is more secure" argument; readers debate Microsoft's longevity.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 08/01/2002
Sometimes you really have to ponder the meaning behind the numbers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/2002
Despite its lackluster support, Double-Take may be the safety net you need.
- By Suzanne Pacheco
- 08/01/2002
Active Directory’s trust model makes administration easier than NT, but also introduces the potential to do more damage. Make sure your administrators are trustworthy.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/01/2002
Just because you don't have a "C" at the beginning of your title doesn't mean you're not influential.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/01/2002
How much harm comes of the anti-Windows bias in the world of security?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/01/2002
Public Key Infrastructure is at the core of most e-commerce and, therefore, must be done properly. You can do it yourself—or turn to some outside pros. Which option is for you?
- By Roberta Bragg
- 06/01/2002
Suspicious of XP’s security features? As you spend quality time together, you’ll get to see its good points—maybe even become friends.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 05/01/2002
Just what does the ol' crystal ball say about the next decade?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/01/2002
Blocking e-mail attachments, boot camp training, and MCSA early achievers.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 05/01/2002
My hamster doesn't have a creaky wheel
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2002
Wouldn't it be nice if your computer just knew you! Security Advisor's Roberta Bragg evaluates several solutions.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2002
Magic fingers at work
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2002
An interesting curiosity—VeriVoice saves keystrokes but doesn't enhance security
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2002
The eyes have it—affordable iris scanning from Panasonic and Iridian
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2002
Redmond’s not-so-secret plan to shoo those pesky Apaches away.
Time spent with network security auditors pointed out to Roberta the most common weaknesses in companies. How does yours stack up to her list?
- By Roberta Bragg
- 03/01/2002
The value of bootcamps; what MCPs wear; Microsoft's certification retirement policy.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 03/01/2002
MCP Magazine's writers and editors turn their attention to solving your problems -- technical and professional.
Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/01/2002
U.S. pricing for Microsoft exams through Prometric and VUE testing centers has increased 25 percent, to $125.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/01/2002
Remember the wave of dot-bomb failures? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Changes are afoot to make Active Directory more flexible.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/2002
In releasing its annual Dirty Dozen list of the 12 most common viruses, antivirus and security vendor Central Command called 2001 the "Year of the Internet Worm."
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/02/2002
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/17/1998
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/16/1998
Microsoft unveiled some new and changing features for the Windows Phone 8.1 version of Internet Explorer 11.