When it comes to ensuring compliance with information security rules or best practices, a substantial minority of federal agencies still aren't making the cut.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2008
Microsoft's suite of online tools focused on education has been expanded to include a "hosted" Exchange service with prototype features not yet available to the public.
- By David Nagel
- May 27, 2008
Windows 7, the code-name for Microsoft's upcoming operating system, will be demonstrated at "D6: All Things Digital," according to a blog note for the sold-out event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 27, 2008
- By Joanne Cummings
- May 24, 2008
Microsoft released an international beta of its Office Live Workspace (OLW) suite of productivity tools. The company also quietly launched an Office Live Update last week.
- By David Nagel
- May 23, 2008
With billionaire investor Carl Icahn's consortium of investors looking to take over Yahoo's board at its upcoming shareholder meeting, Yahoo has bought itself more time by pushing back the meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July."
- By Becky Nagel
- May 23, 2008
Microsoft's announcement that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer raises the question: What's the status of SQL Server 2008?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 22, 2008
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn continues to push for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo -- whether or not Redmond wants to.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 22, 2008
Microsoft has begun enlisting the support of beta testers for Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 22, 2008
Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007.
- By David Nagel
- May 21, 2008
Microsoft released High Performance Computing Server 2008 (HPC Server 2008) Beta 2, the next-generation version of Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 21, 2008
Stealing some thunder from Citrix's recent XenDesktop unveiling, VMware has made several announcements aimed at strengthening partnerships with thin client suppliers.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 21, 2008
Microsoft now wants to buy just a part of Yahoo, according to the latest rumors hitting the dailies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 20, 2008
With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 20, 2008
Hewlett-Packard has expanded its role in the desktop virtualization arena with new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- May 20, 2008
As any IT analyst will tell you, help desk outsourcing has been one of the biggest areas of growth in a red-hot offshore outsourcing segment. But not so fast, Gartner warns: Several help desk outsourcers may be rushing things.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 20, 2008
Citrix today announced a new Desktop Appliance Partner Program. Appliances and thin clients are important elements in the emerging value chain for hosted desktop virtualization solutions both in terms of end user expectations for performance and ease of installation.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 20, 2008
Microsoft today published a new release candidate (RC1) of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a critical product in Microsoft's emerging virtualization lineup.
- By Keith Ward
- May 20, 2008
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
- By David Nagel
- May 19, 2008
Microsoft launches SharePoint Deployment Planning Services, available now for customers with Volume Licensing Software Assurance through partners with an SDPS certification.
- By David Nagel
- May 19, 2008