It's Earnings Day In Redmond -- Redmondmag.com

There will be a stock buyback...after a disappointing results announcement. (Microsoft's whole press release is here.)

Meanwhile, down in Northern California, the news is better at Google.

Posted by Lee Pender on 07/20/2006 at 1:19 PM

Active Directory Defaults Subject to Relay Attacks, Microsoft Warns

Microsoft on Wednesday advised organizations using Active Directory to take a couple steps to protect against Kerberos resource-based constrained delegation relay attacks.
Q&A with Derek Melber on the Horrors of Active Directory Security

Your Active Directory isn't secure. Learn what to do to protect your users and be ready for the next attack.
VMware MegaDeal: Broadcom Acquiring Virtualization Pioneer for $61 Billion

Chipmaker Broadcom announced Thursday its plans to acquire virtualization pioneer and multicloud leader VMware for $61 billion in a landmark tech deal surpassed in value only by Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 and Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard earlier this year.
Microsoft Bringing Inactive Account Removals and Default Security to Azure Active Directory Users

Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory security enhancements this week.
Meta Taps Latest Azure Virtual Machines for AI Research

Meta, formerly known as "Facebook," is using the latest Azure virtual machines (VMs) with graphics processing unit (GPU) compute power for its "large-scale AI research workloads," Microsoft announced on Wednesday.