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
More user interface tweaks and bug fixes are being carried out by the Windows 7 engineering team in preparation for the release candidate version of the OS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2009
A white paper published by Microsoft on Wednesday concludes that Internet Explorer 8 is the fastest browser, based on benchmark testing conducted in a Microsoft lab.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2009
nCircle's Tyler Reguly discovered a vulnerability that renders the Microsoft's DNS patch virtually useless if a server has already been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 12, 2009
In a bid to entice application providers to build and distribute their wares on the recently announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft today revealed plans to offer tooling and guidance on its developer portal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 11, 2009
Adobe Systems Inc. had its own Patch Tuesday yesterday when it issued a critical security fix for an Adobe Reader 9 bug that first got broad attention in late February.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 11, 2009
Windows 7 will feature superior application compatibility over Windows Vista, according to a Microsoft announcement issued on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2009
The Convergence 2009 event kicked off on Tuesday in New Orleans with couple of free product update announcements by Microsoft and the usual testimonials from Microsoft Dynamics customers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 10, 2009
Microsoft encouraged its hosting partners to move more into the "managed services" realm, offering incentives toward that end at last week's Microsoft Hosting Summit 2009 event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 10, 2009
Microsoft is rolling out three security fixes today in its March patch release, with one item described as "critical" and two items labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 10, 2009
Mike Nash, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows product management, talks about the status of IE 8 RC1.
- By Doug Barney and Kurt Mackie
- March 09, 2009
Server virtualization is being implemented at the majority of firms, in both enterprise (1,000 seats or more) and small-to-medium (SMB) business segments, according to two separate Forrester Research reports.
- By Herb Torrens
- March 06, 2009
Microsoft will expand the list of "features" that can be disabled when the Windows 7 Release Candidate becomes available, including the ability to turn off IE 8.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2009
The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday announced that it is changing its full-time monitoring of Microsoft's compliance with a 2004 antitrust decision, and instead will use technical consultants for monitoring on an "ad hoc" basis.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2009