The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies today rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2008
Cisco has unveiled a partnership with HP to push its unified communications products to global customers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 14, 2008
Intel Corp. on Tuesday shared technical plans for an important element needed to develop the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) specification.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 14, 2008
The good news for Cisco is that a recent survey of service provider customers has named it one of the top five VoIP vendors in the industry.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 14, 2008
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 14, 2008
Microsoft closed its investigation into an update blocking issue that affected users of Windows Server Update Service 3.0 or WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2008
Yesterday, August 12, was a blow-out day for some users of VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 virtualization products, especially if they had applied the latest product updates called "Update 2."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2008
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 13, 2008
It's hard to "go green" or pursue eco-friendly IT policies when you don't know how much energy you're consuming. Unfortunately for U.S. firms, that's precisely the shape they're in, according to a new survey from reseller giant CDW Corp.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 12, 2008
Microsoft's August patch, slated to be the largest patch rollout since 12 bulletins hit users in February of 2007, came up short by one.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 12, 2008
Microsoft announced a launch event for its virtualization products, scheduled for Sept. 8, 2008 in Bellevue, Wash.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2008
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- August 11, 2008
If The Graduate's Mr. McGuire were to give Ben Braddock one word of career advice today, it might very well be "networking" and not plastics.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 11, 2008
Microsoft lost browser market share over the last year, according to a report issued by management consulting firm Janco Associates Inc.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 11, 2008
With the U.S. economy still circling and unemployment on the rise, it's a good time to be in IT -- relatively speaking.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 11, 2008
As the summer heats up, and icebergs melt, maybe it's time for system admins using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to consider adding a little eco-friendliness to their networks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 08, 2008
IT Pros and system administrators will be mighty busy this month as Microsoft announced plans to release 12 patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 07, 2008
A cache of stolen data gathered from a botnet that has been quietly sweeping up information for years contained the user names and passwords for 8,485 bank accounts.
- By William Jackson
- August 07, 2008
VMware joined the Linux Foundation on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 07, 2008
One fun thing about the interactive world of Web 2.0 is the online applications you can take advantage of, such as Google Gadgets.
- By William Jackson
- August 07, 2008