In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2008
sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing.
- By Patrick Marshall
- April 14, 2008
About a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey released by Gartner this month.
- By David Nagel
- April 11, 2008
The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2008
Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, initiated at the end of January, today unleashed media reports suggesting that shifting coalitions are forming that could decide Yahoo's fate.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- April 10, 2008
Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 10, 2008
Yahoo issued an announcement today that it plans to conduct a limited test of Google's ad search solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2008
Microsoft's automated security suite for home users and small businesses is available for testing from the Microsoft Connect Web site.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2008
Microsoft today released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 at the RoboBusiness conference in Pittsburgh.
- By Michael Desmond
- April 09, 2008
Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference 2008, his company's namesake information security conference, yesterday (April 8) in San Francisco with a warning.
- By John K. Waters
- April 09, 2008
Microsoft today released information on protocols used in some of its software products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2008
If the traditional notion of infrastructure-based perimeter security is not yet dead, it's not for lack of effort by keynote speakers at this week's RSA Security conference.
- By William Jackson
- April 08, 2008
Microsoft's released a public beta version of an integrated security solution, code-named "Stirling."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2008
Federal mandates for issuing interoperable electronic IDs to employees and contractors soon could spur the adoption of digital certificates and the use of public-key infrastructure (PKI) throughout the country, one industry observer predicts.
- By William Jackson
- April 08, 2008
Microsoft rolled out five "critical" and three "important" patches for Windows Server 2008, Vista, Office, IE and other software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 08, 2008
Yahoo's board of directors got a letter from Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer over the weekend about Yahoo's slow response to Microsoft's proposed takeover bid.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2008
Microsoft reported today that it has fixed a problem that caused some users upgrading to Vista Service Pack 1 to enter "an endless reboot cycle."
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2008
This week, Microsoft offered its first public glimpse of the next release of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), Redmond's next-generation integrated application lifecycle management suite, though the company is still not committing to any deliverables.
- By John K. Waters
- April 04, 2008
Nearly a year and a half after striking their improbable alliance to provide better interoperability between open source and Windows-based platforms, Microsoft and Novell told developers this week that the pact has yielded technical benefits but there's still work to be completed, particularly on the interoperability between the two companies' enterprise directory platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 04, 2008