IT departments should depart from the usual SP1 milestone when deciding when to deploy Windows 7, according to a Gartner analysis.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 24, 2009
Forrester Research found that enterprises predominantly use Windows and Internet Explorer, but they're currently sticking with the older Microsoft technologies.
- By Herb Torrens
- March 24, 2009
Microsoft continues to squash bugs in its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, which was released last week for Windows-based PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2009
A Symantec-sponsored survey found that of the 945 U.S. adult participants, 59 percent who left a firm (voluntarily or not) steal company data.
- By James E. Powell
- March 23, 2009
Developing and managing Web sites may have gotten a little easier with new tools announced by Microsoft this week as part of its MIX09 Web developer conference.
- By Herb Torrens
- March 20, 2009
Microsoft won another round in a lawsuit over its "Vista Capable" practices after the federal judge overseeing the case dismissed a key plaintiff contention.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2009
To help developers identify mechanisms that lead to system crashes or have other security implications, Microsoft will unveil its !exploitable (pronounced "bang exploitable") Crash Analyzer on Friday at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 20, 2009
Microsoft described three Windows Azure improvements designed to assist developers using its cloud-based operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of its latest e-commerce server, which integrates with SharePoint services.
- By Herb Torrens
- March 18, 2009
A recent report on Web security trends relayed a damning assessment of the IT security landscape that's prompting some to suggest the government should step in to give enterprises and individuals guidance on how to protect themselves.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 18, 2009
You might not have noticed it, but the World Wide Web turned 20 years old last week.
- By William Jackson
- March 18, 2009
Reports on Wednesday that IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems drew mixed views as to what Big Blue would gain from absorbing the struggling supplier of servers, open source software and Java.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 18, 2009
On Thursday, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 18, 2009
Microsoft today released the beta of its Silverlight 3 rich interactive media runtime and development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 18, 2009
A study polling the use of Web browsers and operating systems affirmed Microsoft's dominant market position on both fronts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2009
Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) was released to manufacturing, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2009
A newly released maturity model could be the first to shed new light on how enterprises are implementing security initiatives in their internal software development efforts.
- By John K. Waters
- March 17, 2009
Hackers are increasingly attempting to influence search engines to misdirect users to spurious Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 16, 2009
Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the white-hot world of virtualization.
- By Keith Ward
- March 16, 2009
Microsoft released the latest beta version of its virtualized server management system, especially notable for its support of "live migration."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 16, 2009