Network goliath Cisco Systems last week stepped further into the cloud-computing space by announcing the acquisition of privately held PostPath, a provider of hosted e-mail and calendaring solutions based in Mountain View, Calif.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 04, 2008
Microsoft plans to roll out just four "critical" fixes in September's security bulletin release expected on Tuesday, according to an advance notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 04, 2008
A former senior group program manager for Microsoft Office Business Applications has joined Dallas-based BizNet Software, a provider of a real-time financial reporting and analysis solutions that integrate with Microsoft Excel.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 03, 2008
Microsoft is continuing its investigation into a vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain superuser privileges on various flavors of the Windows OS.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 02, 2008
One report suggests that IE could account for less than half of all browsers in use by enterprises within the next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 02, 2008
Just days after Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, Google unexpectedly made what could be its largest assault on Redmond to date -- the release of its own Web browser.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 02, 2008
A (slightly) tongue-in-cheek analysis of where partners rate in the Microsoft ecosystem based on the quality of show-attendee bags.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2008
Microsoft to spend $2.9 billion on channel in fiscal year 2009.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2008
Citing billion-dollar losses, an expert study calls on channel executives to help battle gray-market sales.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- September 01, 2008
Arlin Sorensen's network of partner peer groups prepares to kick off a new game plan.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- September 01, 2008
Microsoft this week released an update to a 2007 Internet Explorer patch covering Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 28, 2008
Some people think Microsoft's Mojave Experiment, revealed in July, was rigged marketing exercise, but Microsoft begs to differ, according to a Tuesday blog post.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 28, 2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- August 28, 2008
The software giant this week released its first service pack for Forefront Client Security, a member of its Forefront family of security products.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 28, 2008
A variety of technical flaws in an upgrade of the system that supports the government's terrorist watch list has drawn congressional fire and raised concerns that the entire system might be in jeopardy.
- By Wyatt Kash
- August 27, 2008
If consumer Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is surging, why are VoIP equipment revenues -- especially in a market segment that includes gargantuan players such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent -- softening?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 27, 2008
The open source hypervisor Xen has a new version, 3.3, that includes a number of upgrades and enhancements that make it more enterprise-worthy and start to move it beyond the datacenter.
- By Keith Ward
- August 27, 2008
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and the company spilled a lot of pixels explaining the beta's new features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 27, 2008
Redmond responded on Wednesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 27, 2008
Last week, market watcher Gartner Inc. issued a report in which it projected that IT spending should eclipse $3.4 trillion this year. That's a year-over-year growth rate of 8 percent.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 26, 2008