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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Adobe Systems on Wednesday said it has released a patch to stave off stack buffer overflow exploits in its free and widely used Adobe Reader software. 
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- November 05, 2008