A severe flu outbreak could send millions home to telecommute, possibly disrupting networks vital to the nation's security and  financial well-being. 
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
- October 26, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft disclosed its fiscal first-quarter results, reporting an 18 percent decrease in net income compared with 1Q 2008.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The beta includes a number of improvements over the previous release, according to Microsoft. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding in October, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Economic reset is forcing IT to show more value for less money. Microsoft CEO pitches new wave of products as being here to help.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft extends Dynamics AX with acquisition of IP from three partners. Would Redmond do the same for NAV, GP and SL?
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Customer Interaction Cloud combines Salesforce.com's Service Cloud 2 and Cisco's UC stack.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Attendees at SMB Nation 2009 assert their independence from Microsoft amid slowly improving market conditions.
                    
			            - By Rich  Freeman
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new Service Pack creates technical capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, but does it make partners less critical?
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- October 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formally unveiled Windows 7 on Thursday at a ceremony in New York City. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- October 22, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An independent security researcher and a prominent figure in open source exploit data collection now has a new commercial home.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- October 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is responding to problems with a fix for Office Communications Server and Live Communications Server.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- October 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations struggling with the complexities of Microsoft's unified communications solution have a new outsourcing option.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft officials described additional details about the upcoming SharePoint Server 2010 product at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- October 20, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and Red Hat have validated that their respective Windows and Linux operating systems will run on each other's virtualization platforms.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- October 20, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Spam-based malware traffic increased dramatically last month, surging by 900 percent between August and September.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- October 20, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week reported positive numbers for its new consumer antivirus solution, but security vendors haven't heaped much praise.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- October 19, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft will hatch Windows 7 as a full-fledged commercial operating system this week, and IT professionals should be making plans for it.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 19, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Scaring computer users into buying and installing potentially malicious security programs is becoming a big business, according to a study of rogue software by Symantec.
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
- October 19, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and BroadSoft will promote their Hosted Unified Communications product at a BroadSoft event later this month.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- October 16, 2009