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
Microsoft's rollout of Windows 7 Beta, the company's newest operating system, has resulted in a stepped-up workload for the Department of Justice effort overseeing Microsoft's compliance with a past federal court antitrust ruling.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 28, 2009
Things went downhill fast for the world's second largest chipmaker in the fourth quarter of 2008 when revenue slipped to $1.162 billion, 33 percent lower than the fourth quarter of 2007, according company's earnings report.
- By Jim Barthold
- January 27, 2009
Growth of the Apple iPhone and Google's Android mobile platforms are cutting into the market for devices based on Windows Mobile and will continue to do so, according to a global survey of developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2009
Unified communications (UC) could carry a spark through an increasingly dimming economic landscape if trends in an industry-conducted poll hold true.
- By Jim Barthold
- January 27, 2009
One bright spot in the IT economy appears to be virtualization, with leading provider VMware today announcing that its yearly revenue rose 42 percent in 2008 to $1.9 billion. Fourth quarter revenues were a "solid" $515 million -- up 25 percent over last year.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 27, 2009
For the second time in as many weeks, after a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 27, 2009
Microsoft today made available Release Candidate 1 of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2009
Amid the current economic uncertainty, some businesses will probably opt to kill existing outsourcing arrangements to cut costs, but some in the industry expect the economic downturn to result in a net gain for outsourcers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 27, 2009
Many observers with a vested interest in regulatory requirements say tighter compliance is inevitable.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 27, 2009
RCP updates its partner-oriented list of major players at Microsoft, adding some must-know names for uncertain times.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- January 26, 2009
The economic downturn is having "a potentially profound" impact on the IT priorities and spending plans of SMBs, says a recent IDC survey.
Microsoft will discontinue its PerformancePoint business intelligence product and will merge its function into SharePoint Server, the company said late last week.
- By Michael Desmond
- January 26, 2009
Researchers offer insights about how to boost business even when the economy is down.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- January 26, 2009
Green initiatives continue despite the roiling economic picture.
With the release candidate of IE 8 now available, Microsoft GM Dean Hachamovitch talks about switching to standards compliance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2009
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