Microsoft recently received a U.S. patent on technology that can restrict software and hardware use on a computer
- By Herb Torrens
- May 26, 2009
Microsoft has cancelled a hearing on alleged competition violations that was scheduled to take place before European Commission (EC) officials in early June.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 26, 2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points (APs) and nearly 550 clients in seven different financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either open (unprotected) or used WEP encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 26, 2009
Microsoft on Friday announced that there's a problem for those who applied Service Pack 2 (SP2) to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) -- namely, it's timed to expire in 180 days.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 22, 2009
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, fielded questions from financial analysts at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 21, 2009
Microsoft on Monday alerted users of its Exchange Server 2007 product that Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be coming sometime in the third quarter of this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 21, 2009
Cisco's announcement this week of a new "Smart Grid" secure network infrastructure offering takes it further afield from its enterprise networking roots.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 21, 2009
Microsoft and HP expanded their existing agreements on unified communications (UC) products and services on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 20, 2009
Microsoft continued its foray into unified communications (UC) with an announcement last week of support for a virtualized topology in Microsoft Office Communications Server R2 (OCS R2).
- By Herb Torrens
- May 19, 2009
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 19, 2009
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 bits became available to MSDN subscribers Monday. A public beta is scheduled for release on Wednesday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- May 18, 2009
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 will get a name change next year that's more in tune with the SharePoint side of things.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 14, 2009
The European Union has slapped Intel with a 1.06 billion euro ($1.45 billion) fine for anti-competitive behavior in the x86-based microprocessor market.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 13, 2009
As expected, Microsoft rolled out only one patch for this month's Patch Tuesday, a critical bulletin for PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 12, 2009
Outsourcing activity is increasing, experts say, even as the scope and nature of that activity changes.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 12, 2009
The opening keynote address at Tech-Ed on Monday featured Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Windows business, who described a number of upcoming milestones for Microsoft's new products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 12, 2009
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- May 12, 2009
Looking to give its Surface table top device more functionality, Microsoft today released its first service pack with a new SDK that the company says will give developers more flexibility in adding more features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 11, 2009
The second community technology preview of Microsoft's System Center Service Manager is now available for a virtual test drive, according to a Microsoft announcement last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 11, 2009
Microsoft on Monday launched the second beta of its claims-based identity management server platform, code-named "Geneva."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 11, 2009