Microsoft got it right with Windows 7, according to Michael Cherry, vice president of research on operating systems for Directions on Microsoft.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 31, 2009
Two of the most troubling new threats are in the Domain Name System and Secure Sockets Layer, services users have trusted for years.
- By William Jackson
- August 31, 2009
The Social Security Administration will to test Microsoft's HealthVault software for its disability determination process.
- By Alice Lipowicz
- August 31, 2009
The fifth annual VMworld user conference gets under way this week in San Francisco with a flurry of product announcements, a packed schedule and a bit of controversy.
- By John K. Waters
- August 30, 2009
Zoho is making further inroads in the online office market with the introduction of a unified log-in mechanism that allows users to use their Google and Yahoo ID to access Zoho's suite of Office-like apps.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 28, 2009
Microsoft pointed to e-mail account "hijacking" as becoming an increasing problem, especially among Windows Live Hotmail users.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 27, 2009
Microsoft filed legal papers on Tuesday appealing a final judgment against it in a patent infringement case brought by i4i LP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 27, 2009
Spam volumes have increased fourfold during the last six months, accounting for a discouraging 94.9 percent of all e-mail delivered so far in August.
- By William Jackson
- August 26, 2009
Microsoft started a new pilot help program last week for IT professionals and developers facing application compatibility issues.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 26, 2009
Microsoft on Monday released the latest service pack for Exchange Server 2007, adding a few new features, mostly of interest to IT pros.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2009
In its latest bid to show its support for PHP, Microsoft late last week released a toolkit that will bridge the popular scripting language to .NET-based data-driven applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 25, 2009
Internet Explorer 8 will arrive as an "update rollup" via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Tuesday, Aug. 25, Microsoft announced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2009
Microsoft on Monday announced the availability System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 evaluation version.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 24, 2009
Microsoft has formally appealed a judgment issued last week that would require the company to stop selling Microsoft Word within the U.S.
- By Becky Nagel
- August 20, 2009
Microsoft is merging its Data Programmability and Connected Systems Group.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 20, 2009
Researchers from Redmond this week unveiled an anti-hacking concept that can help track hackers or malicious content to origin servers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 19, 2009
If there's one thing that last month's attacks against public sector sites in both the U.S. and South Korea demonstrated, it's that the exploits of the past often come back to haunt us.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 19, 2009
Looking to capitalize on growing interest by enterprises for open source solutions, Red Hat this week has revamped its partner program adding a premier tier and offering three levels of specialization.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 18, 2009
Microsoft made the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 release candidate (RC) available on TechNet today.
- By Becky Nagel
- August 18, 2009
A consortium of IT security companies is rolling out an XML malware metadata scheme to improve data sharing within the industry.
- By William Jackson
- August 18, 2009