Microsoft and the state of Washington are waging a legal war against vendors of "scareware," according to an announcement from the Washington State Attorney General's Office issued on Monday.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 30, 2008
They call it private browsing. Microsoft recently released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8 that offers it. You'll find it in Mozilla's Firefox and the new Google Chrome. Apple's Safari has offered the feature for some time.
- By William Jackson
- September 30, 2008
What is clickjacking? Security pros are trying to make sense of a new bug found by researchers that apparently affects various Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 29, 2008
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- September 29, 2008
AppSense Ltd. announced a desktop virtualization marketing deal with IT services company CSC, based in Falls Church, Va.
- By Tom Valovic
- September 29, 2008
Speaking to attendees at the company's annual Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday, CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a three-year-old partnership with Hewlett-Packard to produce a new storage server.
- By John K. Waters
- September 26, 2008
Microsoft has been sending signals to investors this week amidst a U.S. economy teetering on the edge of a major financial meltdown.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2008
Serena Software acquired Projity on Wednesday and is promoting that company's software as an open source alternative to Microsoft Project.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 25, 2008
The International Association of Managed Service Providers and Microsoft are joining forces to better educate and certify companies using Microsoft IT management tools.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 25, 2008
Cisco, a company synonymous with telecommunications networks, is flexing its muscles in yet another arena -- unified communications.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 25, 2008
Technology executives are turning to virtual systems to lower costs and reduce energy costs, but issues with the technology remain, according to a survey which also found companies struggling with service and power consumption issues.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- September 25, 2008
Microsoft cited top TCP-E benchmark results for SQL Server 2008, but there's just one problem -- the test fielded no other DBMS competitors.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 25, 2008
Senior Program Manager Phil Taylor announced his departure from Microsoft today on his blog.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 25, 2008
Microsoft hopes to draw crowds to its upcoming Professional Developers Conference by making Windows 7 bits available to the public attending the event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 24, 2008
The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study by security service provider SecureWorks Inc.
- By William Jackson
- September 23, 2008
In an announcement at VMworld last week, VMware unveiled plans to deliver a portfolio of solutions intended to turn virtualized desktops into "universal clients." The initiative, dubbed vClient, begins with a series of products called VMware View.
- By Chris Riedel
- September 22, 2008
One thing you won't find underlying a cloud computing initiative is a relational database. And this is no accident: Relational databases are ill-suited for use within cloud computing environments.
- By Joab Jackson
- September 22, 2008
McAfee Inc. has agreed to purchase Secure Computing Corp. for about $465 million.
- By David Hubler
- September 22, 2008
In the United States, IT spending in education will reach $47.7 billion by the end of this year and is expected to top $56 billion by 2012, according to a new report from Compass Intelligence.
- By David Nagel
- September 22, 2008
Microsoft released on Monday Windows HPC Server 2008, the datacenter-class operating system that promises to broaden the development and implementation of high-performance computing applications on the Windows platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 22, 2008