Who's ahead: Microsoft Corp.'s .NET or Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Platform Enterprise Edition?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/30/2008
Microsoft and the state of Washington are waging a legal war against vendors of "scareware," according to an announcement from the Washington State Attorney General's Office issued on Monday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/30/2008
A high-performance computing network called the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) will be formally introduced on Friday as part of an international scientific collaboration investigating particle physics, including "Big Bang"-type calculations.
- By Jim Barthold
- 09/30/2008
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
What is clickjacking? Security pros are trying to make sense of a new bug found by researchers that apparently affects various Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/29/2008
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/29/2008
AppSense Ltd. announced a desktop virtualization marketing deal with IT services company CSC, based in Falls Church, Va.
Microsoft has been sending signals to investors this week amidst a U.S. economy teetering on the edge of a major financial meltdown.
Speaking to attendees at the company's annual Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday, CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a three-year-old partnership with Hewlett-Packard to produce a new storage server.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/26/2008
The International Association of Managed Service Providers and Microsoft are joining forces to better educate and certify companies using Microsoft IT management tools.
- By Jim Barthold
- 09/25/2008
Microsoft cited top TCP-E benchmark results for SQL Server 2008, but there's just one problem -- the test fielded no other DBMS competitors.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/25/2008
Technology executives are turning to virtual systems to lower costs and reduce energy costs, but issues with the technology remain, according to a survey which also found companies struggling with service and power consumption issues.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 09/25/2008
Cisco, a company synonymous with telecommunications networks, is flexing its muscles in yet another arena -- unified communications.
- By Jim Barthold
- 09/25/2008
Serena Software acquired Projity on Wednesday and is promoting that company's software as an open source alternative to Microsoft Project.
- By Jim Barthold
- 09/25/2008
Senior Program Manager Phil Taylor announced his departure from Microsoft today on his blog.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/25/2008
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
Intel this week began rolling out its new line of Xeon processors targeted toward server markets.
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
The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2008