Just two days after walking away from its $49.6 billion bid for Yahoo, the Times Online U.K. is reporting that Microsoft is meeting with Time Warner executives regarding a possible bid for America Online -- the very company Yahoo turned to in a possible attempt to stave off the takeover bid from Redmond.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 05, 2008
The plunge of Yahoo's stock happened as expected after Microsoft withdrew its takeover bid for the Web app company on Saturday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2008
Shares of Microsoft closed just shy of 7 percent higher on Friday May 2 based on new speculation that Microsoft and Yahoo are now actively negotiating to seal a deal.
- By Ed Scannell
- May 02, 2008
An updated Reporting Services may finally be worth considering.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 01, 2008
According to a recent survey of 850 "enterprise software customers," Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to be the most important enterprise software trend.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 01, 2008
Research firm Gartner is predicting that the current economic downturn in the U.S. will mean more IT and development positions will go overseas.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 30, 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
- April 29, 2008
Tim O'Reilly woke up his end-of-the-day audience when he took the stage at last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
- By John K. Waters
- April 29, 2008
According to market watcher Infonetics Research, both Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are tops, overall, in the UC space. In fact, buyers say that Cisco and Microsoft are their preferred Unified Messaging and Communicator suppliers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 29, 2008
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
- April 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
- April 29, 2008
Advanced developers who want to tell their computer what to do (literally), rather than punch keys or click on icon, may want to check out a "pre-beta" technical preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros for Vista.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2008
Last week, Microsoft's .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET -- Managed Extensibility Framework -- designed to improve compatibility with third-party extensions.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 28, 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
- April 24, 2008
Driven by compliance and public confidence issues, information security is expected to expand dramatically over the next few years, according to new research released by Frost & Sullivan and (ISC)².
- By David Nagel
- April 23, 2008
Spurned suitor Microsoft, which has been trying to acquire Yahoo since the end of January, adopted a new tactic today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 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
- April 23, 2008
Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms, Microsoft this week will release a sample application, tutorials and benchmarks to help simplify the development and deployment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 22, 2008
Microsoft and Novell have stepped up their collaborative efforts on open source operating system technology and intellectual property by moving their controversial enterprise Linux licensing agreement into the Chinese market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2008
Microsoft rolled out its Dynamics CRM Online platform today as a generally available service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2008