When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 31, 2009
Microsoft executives on Thursday explained the company's business and prospects at the 2009 Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond, Wash.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 30, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the promotion of Brad Anderson, an executive who helped foster various server management products in the Microsoft System Center product line.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo finally consummated an Internet search advertising-text deal after almost two years of contentious wooing.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 29, 2009
Microsoft is taking aim at U.K.-based Sage Software in an attempt to grab a greater stake in the enterprise resource planning software market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2009
Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 28, 2009
The Black Hat security conference continues this week in Las Vegas and Microsoft is once again rallying its industry allies, and even its competitors, to a common cause.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 27, 2009
Microsoft issued a proposal last week that attempts to address European Commission concerns about its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 27, 2009
Microsoft's financials continued to decline, with the company reporting $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter -- a 17 percent decrease compared with last year's fourth quarter.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 24, 2009
Microsoft appears to be broadening the market for its Windows Home Server (WHS) product to the small office/home office space.
- By Herb Torrens
- July 23, 2009
Microsoft popped the champagne corks in Redmond today by announcing that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have both reached the "release to manufacturing" stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 22, 2009
Open source software continues to make inroads into the federal government, and a new organization to promote open source applications has been established.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- July 22, 2009
How should IT shops plan now that Microsoft has made noise about its latest productivity suite, Office 2010?
- By Herb Torrens
- July 22, 2009
The U.S. Census Bureau is deploying the Windows Mobile operating system on 140,000 PDAs being used for the 2010 census.
- By Trudy Walsh
- July 22, 2009
Microsoft admitted on Monday that some users of Internet Explorer 8 may perceive its newest Web browser as sluggish.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2009
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit announced this week the release of Service Pack 2 for Mac Office 2008.
- By Herb Torrens
- July 21, 2009
Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
- By David Nagel
- July 21, 2009
Microsoft has taken the once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community, allowing any commercial or community distribution of Linux to run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 21, 2009
Microsoft last week released tools for IT pros and partners planning Windows deployments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2009
Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 20, 2009