Microsoft today described its own version of events concerning Friday's failed talks with Yahoo's management, which were focused on a renewed effort to buy Yahoo's search ad business.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2008
Yahoo's management on Saturday rejected an offer from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn to buy Yahoo's Internet search ad business.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, which was technically approved in April as an international standard (ISO/IEC 29500), may be on its way toward surviving an appeals process -- the last challenge to its legitimacy as a standard.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 11, 2008
Redmond divulges tidbits of SQL Server 2008 release information at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 10, 2008
Microsoft confirmed reports of a distribution glitch preventing patch uploading in certain implementations of WSUS programs and provided a solution to the problem.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 10, 2008
Users of the security program ZoneAlarm encountered a problem accessing the Internet after applying a Microsoft Windows domain name system (DNS) patch described in security bulletin MS08-037.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 10, 2008
Microsoft is offering a helping hand to small businesses that buy new Windows Vista-based PCs over the summer by providing limited free technical support.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2008
Most desktop computers today, when not in use, power down their hard drives to save energy. While this may be very green, it also incurs minor, though sometimes frustrating, delays.
- By Joab Jackson
- July 09, 2008
Less than 24 hours after its Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft issued a security advisory connected to a possible vulnerability in Word 2002 Service Pack 3.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 09, 2008
Diane Greene's precipitous and unexpected departure from VMware yesterday may have resulted from an ongoing rift between Greene and executives at parent company EMC, according to analysts.
- By Tom Valovic
- July 09, 2008
On its face, today's July patch release from Microsoft seems to be light one. There are no "critical" or "moderate" ratings this time.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 08, 2008
In a move that sent shock waves across the virtualization market, VMware's board of directors announced that Diane Greene, the company's co-founder, president and CEO, will be replaced by Paul Maritz, a 14-year veteran of Microsoft and head of EMC's Cloud Division.
- By Tom Valovic
- July 08, 2008
Microsoft's partner community got new marching orders today as Microsoft unveiled its hosted service offerings and pricing -- something that has been deferred, to partner unease, for about two years or so.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 08, 2008
Major vendors of domain name system (DNS) servers are making an unprecedented coordinated release of patches for what is being called a fundamental flaw in DNS, a core element of the Internet.
- By William Jackson
- July 08, 2008
The International Organization for Standardization has approved the PDF as a standard format for electronic documents.
- By Joab Jackson
- July 07, 2008
Microsoft used the occasion of its 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference today to announce that November 12 will be the official launch date of Windows Essential Server Solutions, which are all-in-one software solutions for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) based on Windows Server 2008 and other Microsoft server technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2008
On Monday, a day ahead of its monthly patch release, Microsoft issued a security advisory specific to its database program in Microsoft Office.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 07, 2008
Microsoft's executives have been talking with investor and corporate raider Carl Icahn about renewed plans for Microsoft to acquire part or all of Yahoo, provided that Yahoo's board is replaced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2008
IT pros will come back from the holiday weekend to face a possible four patches in Microsoft's July patch rollout, according to an advance announcement.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 03, 2008
In the wake of a report suggesting that IE was the least secure Web browser, Redmond on Wednesday touted the security features expected to appear in IE 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 02, 2008