Microsoft has followed up on the release of its Windows 7 Beta by rolling out another build of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 06, 2009
After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 06, 2009
Intel Corp., known mostly for its hardware chips, has been gradually moving into the software cloud-computing space, with support for IT administrative tasks as its initial target market.
- By Herb Torrens
- February 05, 2009
A debate erupted over the effectiveness of the user account control feature in Microsoft's beta release of Windows 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 05, 2009
Microsoft plans to rollout four security bulletins for this month's patch cycle on Tuesday, with two "critical" items and two "important" patches on the slate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 05, 2009
Despite gloomy economic projections, IT professionals may fare better than people working in other job sectors this year, according to Computer Economics report.
- By Herb Torrens
- February 04, 2009
EMC and Microsoft formally renewed a partnership on Tuesday, extending their collaborative efforts on virtualization, content management and security solutions for the enterprise market through 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2009
Microsoft has begun aggressively reaching out to the channel to prepare for the release of Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 04, 2009
Microsoft described its product lineup plans for its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system launch, expected in early 2010 or possibly earlier.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 03, 2009
Microsoft has released Semblio SDK version 1, a new tool for education developers that's designed to aid in the creation of interactive learning materials.
- By David Nagel
- February 03, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its "launch experience" of Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) Release 2, a unified communications (UC) product first unveiled in October.
- By Jim Barthold
- February 03, 2009
The source code for Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now available under an open license.
- By John K. Waters
- February 03, 2009
Insider threats to data security via theft or sabotage are sure to rise, especially as companies increase employee layoffs during a bad economy.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 02, 2009
Windows XP powers "71 percent of PCs within North American and European enterprises," according to a report published last week by Forrester Research.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 02, 2009
An international team of computer scientists has demonstrated in the lab that it is possible for overlapping Wi-Fi networks in densely populated areas to support the rapid spread of malicious code that could infect an entire city in a matter of weeks.
- By William Jackson
- February 02, 2009
Xenocode, the Seattle-based maker of virtualization tools, today released the latest version of its Virtual Application Studio, a developer-focused authoring environment for virtualizing existing Windows-based applications.
- By John K. Waters
- February 02, 2009
Though Microsoft may have gotten ahead of the browser-security curve with RC1 of IE 8, which includes a feature that helps protect against clickjacking attacks, recent developments suggest that other browsers haven't quite caught up yet.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 30, 2009
Users testing Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta have been asking Microsoft when it will release the final product, but Microsoft isn't saying right now, according to a Windows 7 team blog posted on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2009
A dispute with the European Union might change how Microsoft distributes its software in the region.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2009
Microsoft has advanced to the next testing phase by issuing Release Candidate "Escrow"-build versions of Service Pack 2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2009