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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft yesterday provided new details about the life of  its popular Windows XP operating system. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 04, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When it comes to infrastructure and operations, research firm Gartner says that virtualization will be the most significant trend through the next four years.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- April 03, 2008