The downturn in the economy is affecting the role and spending strategies of IT organizations, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2009
Microsoft last week rolled out a beta of its new planning tool, which is designed to help its partners and customers migrate to products within the Microsoft stack.
- By Herb Torrens
- June 23, 2009
Last month, according to Symantec Corp. subsidiary MessageLabs, the spam tally eclipsed 90 percent of all business e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 23, 2009
Microsoft last week released a public beta of Configuration Manager Service Pack 2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday will roll out a public test version of its free consumer security application, which was previously known by its code name, "Morro."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2009
Microsoft has clarified its downgrade rights policies for Windows 7 purchasers when that operating system becomes generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2009
Researchers at Finjan Software Inc. have discovered a professional network for buying and selling botnets anywhere in the world.
- By William Jackson
- June 17, 2009
Microsoft found a problem with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a new data synchronization plug-in launched by Google last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 17, 2009
A report shows many organizations have limited or no knowledge of the systems to which their active and terminated employees actually have access.
- By Jim Powell
- June 16, 2009
On Thursday, Mississippi announced it is the latest state to settle its multimillion-dollar antitrust suit against Microsoft.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 15, 2009
Cyber-Ark's survey reveals that a significant number of IT staff use their IT administration rights to access privileged or confidential data.
- By Jim Powell
- June 15, 2009
Dell announced late last week that it is the first company aside from Microsoft to offer Microsoft software for sale via direct download.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 15, 2009
Microsoft is releasing new betas of Forefront enterprise security products, according to announcements issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- June 11, 2009
A setting in Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista can help stave off a particular remote code execution attack, according to Microsoft's security team.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 11, 2009
Worldwide shipments of portable PCs surpassed desktop PCs in the first quarter of this year, marking the first time it has occurred, according to an IDC report announced on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- June 11, 2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points and nearly 550 clients in different financial centers and found that half of them were either open -- unprotected -- or used Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 11, 2009
Microsoft executive Bill Koefoed answered some questions about the software giant's business prospects on Wednesday at an investment firm-sponsored technology conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2009
Google just made it easier for IT organizations to ditch Microsoft Exchange Server.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2009
Cost-cutting IT organizations may delay Microsoft Office upgrades, but they don't appear to be switching to alternative productivity suites, according to a Forrester survey.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 09, 2009
It only took six months for Microsoft to break its own record for addressing the most vulnerabilities in a single patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 09, 2009