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
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 19, 2008
Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo are back on the table again, but maybe not about the acquisition bid.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 19, 2008
Cross-platform developers can now download the source code for Moonlight, the open source project chartered with building a Silverlight runtime for Linux.
- By Kathleen Richards
- May 19, 2008
Security software vendor PC Tools on Friday fired the latest salvo in the argument over whether Windows Vista is as secure as Microsoft says it is.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 16, 2008
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets along with Linux.
- By David Nagel
- May 16, 2008
Evans Data research indicates only eight percent of developers in North America are writing applications for Vista, even though the OS has been live for 15 months.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 15, 2008
The Bush administration's economic-stimulus tax rebate program, under which the Internal Revenue Service is issuing taxpayers payments of as much as $1,200, has given rise to a new wave of phishing scams, according to a new FBI notice.
- By Wilson P. Dizard III
- May 15, 2008
Corporate raider Carl Icahn plans to replace Yahoo's entire 10-member board with the intention of compelling a sale of the company to Microsoft, according to an open letter sent today to Yahoo's Chairman Roy Bostock.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 15, 2008
A former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle that can happen on computers with AMD processors
- By Becky Nagel
- May 15, 2008
Microsoft on Tuesday released Service Pack 1 for Office 2008 for Mac, the first major update to what the company called its most successful Mac Office launch in 19 years (in terms of sales volume).
- By David Nagel
- May 15, 2008
Microsoft last week released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 15, 2008
Microsoft and some independent security researchers had the blogosphere buzzing Wednesday over a series of denunciations after one company claimed that Vista was more vulnerable to malware and other exploits than previous operating systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 14, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reported today that investor Carl Icahn purchased about 50 million shares of Yahoo (3.5 percent of total shares) following Microsoft's failed acquisition bid for the company, citing an unnamed source.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 14, 2008
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates spent a lot of time today talking about "empowering the workers" at the Microsoft's 12th annual CEO Summit 2008 in Redmond, Wash., where he gave a keynote speech.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 14, 2008
A consultancy to the U.K. government has forwarded complaints about Microsoft's licensing and interoperability practices to the European Commission (EC), according to an announcement issued by the Becta consulting group yesterday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2008
A preview version of the server for small-to-medium businesses is now available, according to a Microsoft announcement that included pricing and licensing details.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 13, 2008
On Tuesday, Redmond rolled out four patches for the month of May as expected, with three deemed "Critical" and one "Moderate."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 13, 2008
Organizations still aren't doing enough to protect their data from Web application vulnerabilities, according to a study released Tuesday by security firm Cenzic.
- By David Nagel
- May 13, 2008