OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has formed a new committee to foster interoperability and conformance with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard, according to an announcement issued on Monday by the not-for-profit consortium.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 03, 2008
The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
- By William Jackson
- November 03, 2008
New partner opportunities emerge in a joint solution on virtualization.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2008
With the global financial crisis exploding around them, experts try to gauge its likely impact on channel partners and their customers.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- November 01, 2008
A new version of the Microsoft SOA solution is scheduled for a worldwide debut sometime next year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2008
The direct-market reseller looks to build its business by adding virtualization to its hosted and managed services.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft and its partners discover that virtualization offers real opportunity-especially to those arriving early to the party.
- By Keith Ward
- November 01, 2008
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 31, 2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 31, 2008
Developers this week heard more about the planned upgrade of Microsoft's platform for integrating e-mail, instant messaging, conferencing and telephony at this week's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 30, 2008
A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 30, 2008
Microsoft will join a working group to support an open standard for multiplatform messaging in the enterprise, according to a company statement issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 30, 2008
Microsoft will release a beta of the second service pack for Vista "to a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers."
- By Herb Torrens
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Monday, and developers may be pleased with the new parallel computing capabilities now available in the CTP.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 29, 2008
An IDC study found that nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations don't have solutions in place to prevent data leakage over e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 29, 2008
It looks like that Redmond's hunch was correct when it issued an out-of-cycle security patch late last week, because on Wednesday Microsoft identified publicly available exploit code related to that vulnerability.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Becky Nagel
- October 29, 2008
Microsoft may have reaffirmed its commitment to cloud computing with the launch of its Windows Azure operating system, but overall business adoption of the cloud concept may be stymied, in part, by security issues.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 28, 2008
Chrome has the makings of a good browser, but still lacks a few important features.
- By Will Kraft
- October 28, 2008