Allison Watson fills holes in her team with Thompson, Brown. 
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- February 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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