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
On Friday Microsoft filed an emergency motion to stay last week's ruling ordering the company to stop selling Word in the United States.
- By Becky Nagel
- August 17, 2009
On Friday, Microsoft made the new R2 version of its Windows Server 2008 server operating system available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
- By Becky Nagel
- August 17, 2009
Denial-of-service attacks launched last year against Georgian Web sites were carried out by Russian civilians and sympathizers rather than the government.
- By William Jackson
- August 17, 2009
A moratorium on purchasing Microsoft software, issued June 1 after the Army's Microsoft ELA expired, will end after the Army finishes developing the ordering site.
- By Amber Corrin
- August 17, 2009
Microsoft is putting out the word that users of Internet Explorer 6 should upgrade to IE 8, primarily for security and standards-compliance reasons.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2009
Microsoft provided fresh details about the next editions of Microsoft Office for the Apple Macintosh platform, including a new e-mail service.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 13, 2009
Microsoft's loss in a patent dispute with Toronto-based i4i LP has resulted in a judge's order for Redmond to stop selling Microsoft Word in U.S. markets.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2009
Microsoft and Nokia are staking a new claim to the mobile phone space with a global alliance announced today.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 12, 2009
Microsoft's Brad Anderson on Tuesday talked about the company's management product strategies, while downplaying those of VMware, at investment banker-sponsored event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 11, 2009
Microsoft gave investors a look at the company's business prospects on Tuesday at the Oppenheimer Annual Communications, Technology & Internet Conference in Boston.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 11, 2009
Tuesday's nine security patches are all about networking, the Internet, servers and interoperable components that tie everything together.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 11, 2009
Windows Vista users trying to upgrade to Windows 7 can face some unintended consequences if they also use .NET Framework 4 beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2009
Subscribers to Microsoft's TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network services can now get their hands on the first community technology preview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 10, 2009
In a move that promises to strengthen its influence over how video is developed and disseminated online, Google last week said it has agreed to acquire On2 Technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 10, 2009
Expect nine patches in Microsoft's August security update, five "critical" and four "important," according to an advanced notification from Redmond.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 07, 2009
System administrators might be more pleased than dismayed when a social networking site such as Twitter locks out millions of users.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 07, 2009
Subscribers to Microsoft's professional services -- TechNet and the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) -- can begin downloading Windows 7 RTM editions starting today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 06, 2009
Engineers at Sun Microsystems rolled out a new user interface prototype for OpenOffice.org that looks like the "ribbon" UI found in Microsoft Office 2007.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 05, 2009
The move to the Internet cloud will pick up steam in the next year for developers, according to a new survey from Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 05, 2009