Exchange Server 2007 reached the next step in its lifecycle with a community technology preview (CTP) of its first service pack.
- By Keith Ward
- August 14, 2007
Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 14, 2007
In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business.
- By The Associated Press
- August 13, 2007
Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken.
- By The Associated Press
- August 13, 2007
Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys.
- By Keith Ward
- August 13, 2007
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday that Sync, its in-car communication and entertainment system developed with Microsoft Corp., will cost $395 as an option when it debuts this fall on the Ford Focus, Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX.
- By The Associated Press
- August 10, 2007
To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications through the supply chain until they reach consumers.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007
The extremely air-conditioned computer farms known as data centers are the gas-guzzling jalopies of the technology world. Some require 40 or 50 times more power than comparably sized office space.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007
Microsoft will be releasing a host of patches next week, including six "Critical" and three "Important" updates, in its monthly Patch Tuesday releases.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 09, 2007
A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007
Developers are showing a trend toward favoring the use of Java vs. .NET when it comes to implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs), according to analysis from Evans Data Corp.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2007
Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. at a meeting in downtown Seattle Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007
By 2011, the University of Illinois should be the home of the world's fastest supercomputer.
- By The Associated Press
- August 09, 2007
The folks in Microsoft's Developer Division probably didn't mind the damp and drizzle of summer in Seattle as much this year, as they worked feverishly to polish the next iteration of the mothership. So far, it looks like the long hours paid off. Beta 2 of Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) 2008 IDE and .NET 3.5 landed, fully loaded, the last week in July.
- By Kathleen Richards
- August 08, 2007
Cisco Systems Inc. shares jumped nearly 6 percent after the network equipment maker reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that beat Wall Street's expectations and boosted its financial forecast.
- By The Associated Press
- August 08, 2007
Microsoft on Wednesday tried to clear up nagging questions about its Commerce Server roadmap and did. Kind of.
- By Barbara Darrow
- August 08, 2007
At long last, someone has cracked one of the technology world's biggest mysteries -- the identity of Fake Steve, a sharp-tongued blogger who had tech aficionados in stitches with a satiric diary purporting to be from Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
- By The Associated Press
- August 07, 2007
Microsoft on Tuesday officially released several updates for Windows Vista -- fixes that were initially released to the public last week, before being pulled down.
- By Keith Ward
- August 07, 2007
Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of a new restructuring plan, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- By The Associated Press
- August 07, 2007
Apple Inc. updated its iMac computers Tuesday with a slimmer design, faster chips and glossy screens, hoping to further propel sales that already outpace the rest of the PC industry.
- By The Associated Press
- August 07, 2007