Unified communications (UC) has emerged from the Internet cloud thanks to a partnership that brings together LightEdge Solutions, BroadSoft and Microsoft
                    
			            - By Jim  Barthold
- February 11, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) today posted an  open letter to President Barack Obama on open source software.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- February 10, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Redmond's February slate of security bulletins includes four patches -- two deemed "critical" and two "important."
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- February 10, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft rolled out two new enterprise search products on  Tuesday at its FASTforward'09 event in Las Vegas.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 10, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google has licensed a patent from Microsoft that will allow synchronization of Exchange Server and the popular Gmail service.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- February 09, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's antitrust past has come back to haunt it, yet  again.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 09, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft over the weekend acknowledged it is planning a  service that will allow users of its Windows Mobile operating system to  synchronize data on their devices with the Web.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- February 09, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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