Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will be free for small businesses to use "beginning in early October," Microsoft announced today.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 22, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New release aimed at broadened use of Windows HPC Server.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- September 21, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today released a test version of Windows Small Business Server code-named "7," which is the successor to the current SBS 2008 product.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 21, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced today that it plans to realign its Windows Embedded Business group to better connect with the company's management and security product lines.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 20, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is preparing to roll out a new cloud computing engagement model for U.S. partners that will double the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) finders' fee for top-selling partners from 12 percent to 24 percent.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- September 16, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Microsoft executive answered questions today about the company's Windows Phone 7 business strategy at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 16, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Apple, Google and BlackBerry are biggest gainers in "brand value" in 2010.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- September 15, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The New York Post reported Wednesday morning that Novell has agreed to "a deal in principle" to sell itself in two separate parts to two separate buyers.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- September 15, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With the release of its IE 9 beta, Microsoft on Wednesday promised that Web surfing would, from here on out, be about the sites users visit and not about the browser. 
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- September 15, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is heralding its newly released Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 as a fail-safe against hacker incursion methods. 
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- September 14, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    TechAmerica, a nonprofit advocacy group, released an employment report today showing an increase in tech-related job hiring for the first half of 2010. 
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- September 14, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security spending may have slowed, but it still outpaces spending in other segments. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 13, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has renamed its Office Communications Server Lync Server 2010 and has posted the release candidate and a planning tool.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- September 13, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The head of Microsoft's Office group is jumping ship to Nokia.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- September 10, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week disclosed that its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) had three service outages that affected BPOS customers in North America in August and September.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 10, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today released a beta of its upcoming customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 09, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix Systems is on the move yet again, virtually speaking, having formed a desktop virtualization partnership with Cisco Systems. 
                    
			            - By Dian  Schaffhauser
- September 09, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A fierce mobile OS competition will start leveling the field in the next four years, the research firm predicts. 
                    
			            - By David  Nagel
- September 09, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft continued to dribble out information about the forthcoming Office for Mac 2011 product, announcing four new features on Wednesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 08, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week released the latest version of a free tool designed to help ward off attacks to legacy software.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 08, 2010