Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2008
Zimbra, a Yahoo-owned company, last week released a beta of the open source Zimbra Desktop solution, which is meant to be an alternative to more traditional e-mail/groupware applications such as Microsoft Outlook.
- By Will Kraft
- July 28, 2008
You've already snapped up Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards and gaming consoles. Is a Microsoft data warehouse (DW) appliance in your future?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 28, 2008
Microsoft issued a formal security advisory with an "urgent warning" to patch a general Domain Name System vulnerability that can enable spoofing attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 25, 2008
Windows Vista has been "rejected," or is not widely adopted in the enterprise segment, according to a Forrester Research report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 25, 2008
Microsoft held its 2008 Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday, with 10 senior executives attempting to assure the number-crunching crowd on the company's overall financial outlook.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 24, 2008
Five seconds into reading this story, a Web page somewhere will become infected with malware or some other malicious code.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 23, 2008
A KACE-sponsored survey on Windows Vista adoption represents more bad news for Microsoft's flagship operating system, even as Microsoft prepares to pour an estimated $300 million into a new Vista marketing campaign -- news that was announced at Microsoft's 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2008
Microsoft on late Wednesday announced a reorganization of its Platforms & Services Division (PSD), as well as the departure of Kevin Johnson, a 16-year Microsoft veteran and president of the PSD.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2008
The blogosphere is awash with talk about the possible overall weakness of the Domain Name System (DNS) architecture.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 22, 2008
The open source software community lags behind the commercial software sector in secure code development, according to a recent study of some commonly used open source packages.
- By William Jackson
- July 22, 2008
A first-quarter 2008 survey conducted by Computer Economics suggests a possible slowdown in IT spending and staffing lies ahead.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 22, 2008
Out with the old (frame relay, ATM and subscriber lines) and in with the new (e.g., Ethernet or IP MPLS VPN services).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 22, 2008
Speculation continues as to what the ultimate systemic Domain Name System (DNS) flaw could be.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 22, 2008
VMware has launched its first counter-attack to Microsoft's pricing structure for its virtualization products, announcing that ESXi, its lightweight hypervisor, is going to be given away for free.
- By Keith Ward
- July 22, 2008
The UC market grew by 20 percent in both 2007 and 2006, according to market-watcher Infonetics Research.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 22, 2008
A new Forrester Consulting report based on a survey of 389 global technology decision-makers who work with service management finds serious deficiencies with current SLAs.
- By James E. Powell
- July 22, 2008
Update adds product support plus a fix for an infamous bug that has plagued Microsoft's consumer server offering since December.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2008
Yahoo partly acceded to the demands of corporate raider Carl Icahn by agreeing to seat Icahn and two of his proxy-slate candidates to Yahoo's board.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 21, 2008
Enterprise security is an expensive proposition, one that's likely to get even more expensive as organizations take further steps to protect themselves.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 21, 2008