Analysis: Behind Nortel's Restructuring Moves

Need proof that times are tough? Just ask Nortel Networks which last week, following a half-decade of tumult, announced that it was seeking creditor protection in Canada. 01/20/2009

Report Sees Cloud Trend for OSS Developers

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. 01/20/2009

Presidential Inauguration Gets a Little Moonlight

The team developing Moonlight, a multimedia application for Linux- and UNIX-based machines, scrambled to enable live streaming media play for the Barak Obama Presidential Inauguration that was broadcast on Tuesday 01/20/2009

Spammers To Target Job-Hunting, Networking Sites in 2009

A new report from security consultancy AppRiver confirms what many of us have long expected: Spammers are becoming both savvier and sneakier. 01/20/2009

Nortel Bankrupt But Not Dead

"Bankrupt" is a strong word. 01/20/2009

IBM's Lotus Goes Live for SaaS Apps

This means partners need to start getting on that SaaS bandwagon. 01/20/2009

EU Goes Old-School with Microsoft IE Allegations

This would've made more sense back in the IE vs. Netscape days. 01/20/2009

Microsoft Rolls Out Desktop Virtualization Beta

MED-V debuts to mixed reviews. 01/20/2009

PC Sales Shrink, but Netbooks on the Rise

Gartner's fourth-quarter 2008 report on the PC market, announced last week, reported shrinking global and U.S. sales for the top computer makers. 01/19/2009

Microsoft Consolidates Two Online Services Teams

Microsoft is reorganizing two of its online teams -- Live Mesh and Live Services -- by centralizing them under a Windows segment, according to reports from Mary-Jo Foley and Todd Bishop published on Friday. 01/19/2009

Microsoft in the Pink

New Redmond Virt Tool Rankles Top Journalist

Mailbag: Microsoft, Apple and the Cool Factor

Google Greenness Questioned

Microsoft Quietly Updates Live Mesh

Microsoft announced a client update to the beta version of Live Mesh on Tuesday. 01/16/2009

Netezza Announces New Interoperability with Microsoft's BI Platform

Netezza last week appeared to close the loop on one of its perceived competitive shortcomings when it unveiled a new interoperability strategy for Microsoft's business intelligence platform 01/16/2009

EU To Consider Internet Explorer Antitrust Action

The European Commission (EC) issued a "Statement of Objections" against Microsoft's practice of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. 01/16/2009

Google Expands Enterprise App Partner Program

Google on Wednesday launched a beefed-up Google Apps reseller program for the enterprise, opening the program beyond its initial 50 core team members 01/16/2009

Microsoft Updates Windows Cloud Tooling

Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform. 01/16/2009

Jobs Concerns

Stupid or Stupendous?

Is Apple Cool?

Microsoft's Workforce May See Pink in Their Future

Pink slips at the world's largest software provider may become a reality soon, according to several reports published this week, citing unnamed sources. 01/15/2009

A Browser by Any Other Theme...

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. 01/15/2009

Microsoft's Workforce May See Pink Slips

Pink slips at the world's largest software provider may become a reality soon, according to several reports published this week, citing unnamed sources. 01/15/2009

Microsoft Releases Desktop Virtualization Beta

Microsoft released a beta of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), which lets users run older OSes and applications on newer Windows systems. 01/15/2009

Google Searches for Partners

Should Microsoft be watching its back? 01/15/2009

Ingram, Tech Data Make Alliances

Plus, Tech Data inks a UC deal. 01/15/2009

Will New Yahoo CEO Bring Ballmer Back?

That's what some anaylsts are saying...but who knows? 01/15/2009

Datacenter Managers Doing More with Less

Datacenter managers in both the public and private sectors report being caught between increasing demands for performance and shrinking budgets, according to a Symantec study. 01/14/2009

Conficker Worm Still Wreaking Havoc on Windows Systems

Users of Windows Server service that haven't patched a previously disclosed worm hole (MS08-067) are taking a big risk. 01/14/2009

Microsoft Taps Schools To Test Exchange 14

Microsoft has begun ramping up the dialog about its upcoming Exchange 14 mail server solution, which is slated to become the successor to Exchange Server 2007. 01/14/2009

One Patch Makes You Stronger

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta 1 A-OK

Win 7 Download Stretched

Mailbag: Why IE

Microsoft Releases Tools for Windows 7

Tools are currently still in beta. 01/14/2009

Millions Test Next Version of Exchange

3.5 million, to be more accurate. 01/14/2009

Study Reveals Most Dangerous Coding Mistakes

Twenty-five ways for things to go wrong, 01/14/2009

Here Comes the Pain: Global IT Spending To Fall

Hardware sales get the brunt of the hit. 01/14/2009

Microsoft Updates Windows Media Player Patch

Microsoft published an update to a Windows Media Player patch on Tuesday, the same day as its January general security update release. 01/13/2009

Outsourcing: Where the Jobs Are

When the going gets tough, it's the jobs that get going -- increasingly overseas. 01/13/2009

January's Patch Addresses Bug in Server Message Block

As expected, it's a one-patch Tuesday, with a single item deemed "critical" in Microsoft's first security update for the year. 01/13/2009

Windows 7 Remote Server Admin Tools Released

Microsoft released Windows 7 Beta tools that let system administrators perform remote management of Windows servers from their desktop PCs. 01/13/2009

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Oracle fixes piled onto Microsoft fixes; October out-of-band patch still makes admins twitch; common programming errors resulting in security lapses. 01/13/2009

Study Says Developers Want a Piece of SaaS

About half are planning SaaS projects this year. 01/13/2009

Windows 7: Change You Can Believe In?

In terms of buzz, Windows 7 is Obama and Vista is...you guessed it. 01/13/2009

Microsoft Focuses on Cost Savings in Ads

Redmond recruits some big-wigs to talk about the money-saving benefits of software. 01/13/2009

Just the One Patch This Tuesday

Fix addresses remote code execution. 01/13/2009

Microsoft Extends Free Windows 7 Beta to Jan. 24

Microsoft extended the general availability of its free Windows 7 Beta trial offer through Jan. 24 and removed the cap on the number of downloads within that time. 01/12/2009