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
The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 11, 2009
Microsoft has restructured its .NET Micro Framework (MF) team and plans to eventually open up the .NET MF source code for community development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 08, 2009
Chip maker AMD announced some strategic moves this week regarding the race for dominance in the graphics-plus-microprocessor space.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 08, 2009
The middleware software market has entered the slow lane in 2009, according to a Gartner report announced on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 07, 2009
Microsoft plans to roll out only one "critical" patch on Tuesday, affecting PowerPoint, for its May security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 07, 2009
IT pros can now get a package of remote server management tools that work with the new Windows 7 release candidate, which Microsoft released to the public on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 06, 2009
Microsoft announced that the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) is now available to the general public.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2009
Microsoft laid off an undisclosed number of employees today as part of a cost-cutting plan that was initiated back in January.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 05, 2009
Microsoft announced that it is seeking customers willing to test their databases in a cloud-based data connectivity project.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 04, 2009
Microsoft announced some SharePoint product updates that may have gotten trampled under a stampede of information flowing out of Redmond this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 01, 2009
How Adobe is handling critical vulnerability discovered in its Reader software gets mixed reaction from IT security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 01, 2009
The general release date for Windows 7 on new PCs could be as early as this October, according to an Acer executive.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2009
The release candidate (RC) of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, can be downloaded today by Microsoft TechNet and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2009
Microsoft rolled out Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in its "release to manufacturing" form.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2009
Microsoft announced three new marketing changes to help boost sales of its Dynamics business software and support its channel partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2009