RCP Platinum Partner Program Profile: NetGear

Sun Gets Burned in Earnings Report

We're sure Larry Ellison is watching closely. 04/30/2009

A Tale of Two Service Packs

Vista and Office 2007 get theirs. 04/30/2009

Windows Vista SP2 Released to Manufacturing

Microsoft rolled out Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in its "release to manufacturing" form. 04/29/2009

Microsoft Rolls Out Dynamics Incentives

Microsoft announced three new marketing changes to help boost sales of its Dynamics business software and support its channel partners. 04/29/2009

Windows 7 Virtual Mea Culpa

Windows 8 Help Wanted

Mailbag: What To Do with Sun, Microsoft Earnings, More

Browsers: Still the Swiss Cheese of Software

Will Linux and Netbooks Invade the Enterprise?

Stranger things have happened. 04/29/2009

Microsoft Blasts Partners into Cloud

This should help ease some partners' S+S freak-outs. 04/29/2009

RCP Platinum Partner Program Profile: Seagate

Company's program is aimed at "system builders and resellers." 04/29/2009

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released

Service Pack 2 for the Microsoft Office 2007 product family is available for download at Microsoft Update. 04/28/2009

Microsoft To Release XP Mode and MED-V 2.0 Betas

Windows XP Mode, a feature designed to help small businesses migrate to Windows 7, will be available as a beta for download on April 30. 04/28/2009

Microsoft Expands Cloud Services Partner Network

Microsoft on Monday stepped up its services push by announcing a partner-driven effort to deliver hosted Microsoft applications in 19 countries. 04/28/2009

Reporter's Notebook: Cloud Security a Key Focus at RSA

Concerns about the security implications of evolving cloud computing technologies dominated last week's annual RSA Conference. 04/28/2009

Redmond Tweaks Autorun

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. 04/28/2009

Microsoft Matchmaker Links Partners

If only the company would talk about it more. 04/28/2009

Windows 7 to the Rescue

Microsoft needs the next OS to be a superstar of Peyton Manning proportions. 04/28/2009

Microsoft Releases BizTalk Server 2009

New version offers SOA "boost." 04/28/2009

Microsoft Boosts SOA with BizTalk Server 2009 Release

Microsoft released its BizTalk Server 2009 enterprise application integration platform. 04/27/2009

Windows 7 RC Dates Disclosed; 'XP Mode' Unveiled

Microsoft provided a couple of Windows 7 tidbits on Friday, confirming the availability of Windows 7 release candidate (RC) and describing a forthcoming virtualization capability in the new operating system. 04/27/2009

Microsoft Touts Security in Windows 7

Microsoft last week described improved security features in its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, currently in beta release. 04/27/2009

Windows 7 Morality Test

Mailbag: Microsoft Earnings, Ribbon Problems, Windows 7, More

Microsoft and the Economy

Microsoft Plea: Help Us Be More Secure

Windows 7 RC Leaked

The release candidate version of the Windows 7 operating system has apparently hit the streets in the form of various leaked peer-to-peer BitTorrent distributions. 04/24/2009

RSA: Hackers Shifting Focus to App Software

Writing more secure software is not a simple task, but it can and should be done for applications, experts say. 04/24/2009

Microsoft Cancels BI Event

Guest columnists Kurt Mackie and Michael Domingo wonder what the BI event's cancellation could mean for Microsoft. Plus, Q3 wasn't a good one for Redmond, keeping OpenOffice free, and more. 04/24/2009

Botnet Discovered on Thousands of Government Computers

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. 04/23/2009

RSA: Security Lags as Virtualization Picks Up

At a time when everyone is watching the bottom line, there is an increasingly strong impetus to virtualize IT environments. 04/23/2009

Microsoft's Third-Quarter Revenues Drop

Microsoft announced its fiscal third-quarter results for 2009, which showed an overall six percent decrease in revenue compared with last year's Q3 result. 04/23/2009

Windows 8: Microsoft Seeks Help on New OS

Microsoft has been looking to fill jobs associated with Windows 8, its next operating system beyond the current Windows 7 beta. 04/22/2009

Netbook Sales Could Further Erode Microsoft's Profits

Microsoft has yet to reveal its Windows 7 upselling strategy with netbooks, but Redmond's profit margins already appear to be diminished with Windows XP. 04/22/2009

RSA: Users, Not Technology, Are Security's 'Weak Link'

There are a wealth of commercial tools available to help secure networks, but getting them to share information so that administrators have more than a piecemeal picture of their systems can be a challenge. 04/22/2009

VMware Seeds Internal Clouds

Watching Win 7 Speck by Speck

Hey, Larry, What About Java?

Mailbag: Oracle-Sun, Office Ribbon, More

VMware's vSphere Is Here

Here a cloud, there a cloud... 04/22/2009

Microsoft Rolls Out 'Services Ready' for Gold Certified Partners

Helping you help your customers. 04/22/2009

RCP Platinum Partner Program Profile: APC

"Power and cooling specialist" gets good marks. 04/22/2009

2008: The Year of the Insecure Web Browser

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. 04/21/2009

UAC Under Control

UAC not so snarky in Windows 7. Plus, .NET exploit; Internet dangers; hiring hackers. 04/21/2009

Oracle's Sun Acquisition Spells Uncertainty for Java, Database Developers

Oracle's agreement to acquire Sun will reshape the landscape of tools and platforms for Java and database developers, but it also means a change in emphasis -- or even the demise -- of some key tools, development platforms and databases. 04/21/2009

RSA: Microsoft Urges Greater Internet Security Collaboration

As cyber security problems become more widespread, Microsoft urged the IT community to take a more active role, and described its security approach. 04/21/2009

VMware Unveils vSphere

Virtualization leader VMware sees a cloudy future for the datacenter. To that end, today the company announced vSphere 4, the next generation of what was formerly called VMware Infrastructure. 04/21/2009

How Well Will Windows 7 Get Along with Netbooks?

Microsoft aims a version of its next OS at netbook sector. 04/21/2009

IBM Beats Street Despite Light Earnings

Reports $2.32 billion in net income. 04/21/2009