Veteran Microsoft executive joins Redmond's presidents, sees growth opportunities on several fronts.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 27, 2009
Microsoft's chief finance head on Thursday answered questions about Microsoft's business plans at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2009 event in San Francisco.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2009
The United Kingdom is the latest government to express support for the OpenDocument Format standard, which competes with Microsoft's Extensible Markup Language-based format.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- February 26, 2009
Market researchers at IDC, who produce one of the most widely watched forecasts for IT spending, have revised the forecast for 2009 -- and it's "downward ho."
- By Scott Bekker
- February 26, 2009
Channel companies who resell PCs reported lower confidence in their business in Q4 2008; services expected to be key to survival.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 26, 2009
Microsoft's technical team on Thursday reported progress on improvements to the beta version of Windows 7, assuring testers that the team really cares about user feedback.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2009
Microsoft is looking into public reports of a vulnerability in Excel that could enable a remote code execution attack by hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 25, 2009
Google is the latest Web browser maker to join the plaintiff's side in a European Commission (EC) complaint against Microsoft's Internet Explorer distribution practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2009
A new report from IDC, announced on Wednesday, suggested that the global economic malaise has already chipped away at the enterprise IT server market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2009
TechNet and MSDN subscribers now have access to the Release Candidate version of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2009
Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built-in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro.
- By David Nagel
- February 24, 2009
A team consisting of Microsoft Research personnel and university staff members has demonstrated a potentially more secure Web browser called Gazelle.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2009
San Francisco, Calif. -- Microsoft is adding some important ALM improvements to the next version of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). That’s the take of independent solutions architect Mike Vincent, who spoke at this week's MSDN Developer Conference (MDC).
- By John K. Waters
- February 24, 2009
Microsoft provided a strategic update at a financial analyst meeting in New York, describing prospects for the company's second half of the fiscal year, which ends in June.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2009
In the keynote on Tuesday, Microsoft's Jason Zander showcased advances in the new VS 2010 user interface for the first time to VSLive! attendees.
- By Kathleen Richards
- February 24, 2009
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2009
Another vendor has thrown its hat into the enterprise virtualization ring. This one is red.
- By Keith Ward
- February 23, 2009
VMLogix has partnered with Citrix to shore up its brand-new offering, adding lab management and automation capabilities to Citrix Essentials.
- By Keith Ward
- February 23, 2009
Citrix and Microsoft, already close collaborators on many
virtualization-based initiatives, ratcheted up their relationship Monday with
the announcement of Citrix Essentials, a group of technologies calculated to
shoehorn their way into the enterprise datacenters now dominated by VMware.
- By Keith Ward
- February 23, 2009
VMware on Monday joined the growing list of major software platform firms with a virtual partner training campus by launching a nine-language Partner University.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 23, 2009