Parallels has released Parallels Desktop 4.0, an update to the company's desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X.
- By David Nagel
- November 12, 2008
Microsoft executive David Treadwell today provided a few more details about the company's Azure Services Platform in a Webinar aimed at the investment community.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 12, 2008
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 11, 2008
Security administrators faced a familiar if uncomfortable position: Just one day after Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to fix vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows, exploit code appeared in the wild.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 11, 2008
Microsoft has developed four demonstration applications that showcase its Live Mesh cloud-based data synchronization service, according to a report issued on Tuesday by veteran Microsoft watcher, Mary-Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 11, 2008
Redmond rolled out two patches on Tuesday -- one deemed "critical" and one "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 11, 2008
More details about planned features in VS 2010 are coming to light as Microsoft slashes pricing on different versions of VS 2008 by as much as 30 percent.
- By Kathleen Richards
- November 10, 2008
Sun Microsystems is distributing Microsoft's MSN Toolbar browser plug-in, which includes Microsoft Live Search.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2008
Spammers have jumped on the global financial crisis to lure unsuspecting victims into their botnets. And, in the wake of last week's election, President-elect Barack Obama also has emerged as bait for other large spam campaigns.
- By William Jackson
- November 10, 2008
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- November 10, 2008
VMware today announced a new market direction involving the mobile telecom market: VMware will target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.
- By Tom Valovic
- November 10, 2008
Microsoft on Monday announced Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) solutions for IT and development pros.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 10, 2008
Yahoo's CEO at a tech conference admits to second-guessing the Microsoft offer and offers his assessment of the Google deal gone bad.
- By John K. Waters
- November 07, 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 07, 2008
IT pros can expect one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent memory this month as Redmond indicated there would only be two patches -- one critical, one important.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 06, 2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a rousing endorsement of cloud development in Australia today at a Live Web Rally event entitled Liberation Day.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 06, 2008
Calling it a distraction to its core mission, Google pulled the plug on an advertising agreement with Yahoo, according to statements from both companies Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 06, 2008
The market for microprocessors is not immune to the economy or the forces of supply and demand, as was evidenced in a third quarter report from IDC this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 06, 2008
Wireless service providers will be able to take advantage of the locally unused television RF spectrum known as white space for high-speed Internet access under widely anticipated rules adopted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
- By William Jackson
- November 06, 2008
Microsoft is leading the move to claims-based access with an announcement this week of a claims-aware application codenamed "Geneva" Framework.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 05, 2008