Microsoft published Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Monday for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recent study from IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology suggests that CIOs plan to invest in new IT initiatives over the next year, in spite of a bad (and possibly worsening) economic climate.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public  cloud, but without the attendant security and privacy headaches,  said Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of  enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat.
                    
			            - By Joab  Jackson
- May 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday announced the creation of the "Social Enterprise Alliance," a partnership centered on the customization and integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft  on Thursday issued an "evaluation edition" of its System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 product.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 26, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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