Redmond says it's replacing its consumer security suite with a free product to provide more protection for Windows users worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2009
Microsoft has extended the general public availability of its Windows 7 Beta yet again, with a new final date of Feb. 9 to get it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2009
Full slate of companies have recently made it to the top of the Microsoft Partner Program.
- By Anne Stuart
- January 26, 2009
Microsoft is still trying to control the Conficker worm, both the bug itself and news about how it's handling it.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 23, 2009
Despite grim stats announced on Thursday by Microsoft in its fiscal second-quarter report, at least one company in the software IT sector reported positive 2008 quarterly earnings.
- By Jim Barthold
- January 23, 2009
Redmond's security team is undergoing a revamp with the announcement that Andrew Cushman, director of Microsoft's Security Response Center, will be stepping down to be replaced by group manager Mike Reavey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 23, 2009
Citrix Systems has teamed with Intel Corp. to provide virtualization technology for Intel-based desktop computers.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- January 23, 2009
Microsoft announced lower than expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter said that it will eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 22, 2009
IBM on Monday rolled out social networking and collaboration services for businesses called "LotusLive," which integrates with IBM's venerable Lotus Notes e-mail and calendar application.
- By Jim Barthold
- January 22, 2009
Microsoft's disappointing second-quarter earnings showed just how dependent the software giant is on new PC sales.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2009
A malicious keystroke logging exploit hit Heartland Payment Systems in what many are already calling the biggest data theft ever, with nearly 100 million records siphoned from the large payment-processing company.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 21, 2009
The team developing Moonlight, a multimedia application for Linux- and UNIX-based machines, scrambled to enable live streaming media play for the Barak Obama Presidential Inauguration that was broadcast on Tuesday
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 20, 2009
A survey of more than 300 open source software (OSS) developers found that many plan to distribute their solutions as services over the Internet cloud.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 20, 2009
Need proof that times are tough? Just ask Nortel Networks which last week, following a half-decade of tumult, announced that it was seeking creditor protection in Canada.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 20, 2009
A new report from security consultancy AppRiver confirms what many of us have long expected: Spammers are becoming both savvier and sneakier.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 20, 2009
Microsoft is reorganizing two of its online teams -- Live Mesh and Live Services -- by centralizing them under a Windows segment, according to reports from Mary-Jo Foley and Todd Bishop published on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 19, 2009
Gartner's fourth-quarter 2008 report on the PC market, announced last week, reported shrinking global and U.S. sales for the top computer makers.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 19, 2009
Microsoft announced a client update to the beta version of Live Mesh on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 16, 2009
Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- January 16, 2009
The European Commission (EC) issued a "Statement of Objections" against Microsoft's practice of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2009