Google remains undaunted in its quest to become a legal player in the battle to keep Windows Vista's desktop search subject to federal scrutiny.
- By Keith Ward
- July 03, 2007
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch. However, some experts have suggested that reuse -- the principal justification in most cost-benefit analyses for SOA -- might amount to just 10 percent.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 02, 2007
A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia as the Baltic nation sparred with Russia over a Soviet war memorial.
- By The Associated Press
- July 02, 2007
Virtualization rocketed to the top of the gotta-have-it technology list a few years ago, primarily as a means of consolidating servers. But since that initial resurgence, vendors have been finding other applications for the technologies that provide a layer of abstraction between hardware systems and the software running on them.
- By John K. Waters
- July 02, 2007
Vista Ultimate has been out more than half a year now, and several prominent Windows bloggers have been asking when more Extras are coming.
- By Keith Ward
- July 02, 2007
In a move that could broaden the appeal of Microsoft's new Silverlight rich Internet application plug-in to both the .NET and open source communities, a group of developers has demonstrated Silverlight-based multimedia running on a Linux-based system.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 02, 2007
Massachusetts has decided that Microsoft's latest format may meet its standards.
- By Keith Ward
- July 02, 2007
The iPhone hype makes it a natural target -- by scammers looking to sell Apple's first cell phone for a huge markup, and also by hackers looking to add to their bot networks.
- By Keith Ward
- July 02, 2007
In Dayton, a state employee returns to work to find a $2,000 computer stolen. In Cleveland, someone walks into an unlocked office and takes a $2,200 laptop belonging to the state auditor's office.
- By The Associated Press
- July 02, 2007
A hacker managed a rare feat Wednesday, successfully attacking a Web page within Microsoft's U.K. domain and replacing the page with several graphics related to Saudi Arabia.
- By Keith Ward
- June 29, 2007
Several Microsoft partners selling the company's CRM software say a glitch in the company's payment system resulted in them being underpaid on sales, although the company is working to rectify the situation.
- By Barbara Darrow
- June 29, 2007
Microsoft is naming Kirill Tatarinov as its top business solutions executive, according to documents examined by RCP.
- By Barbara Darrow
- June 29, 2007
Employees who work in Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) can breathe easy: they don't have the worst job in science. Just the sixth worst.
- By Keith Ward
- June 29, 2007
After six months of unprecedented hype, thousands of people Friday will get their hands on the iPhone, the new cell phone that Apple Inc. is banking on to become its third core business next to its moneymaking iPod players and Macintosh computers.
- By The Associated Press
- June 29, 2007
Microsoft Corp. will sell "affordable" Windows computers aimed at students in India.
- By The Associated Press
- June 28, 2007
Earlier this week, Microsoft put exam 70-621 up for general availability.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 28, 2007
A Microsoft employee who is also an ex-Google employee gave some insight into working conditions at his old job, including the perhaps surprising to some fact that Microsoft is a better place to work.
- By Keith Ward
- June 28, 2007
Internet addresses ending in ".asia" will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October, with general registrations coming in 2008.
- By The Associated Press
- June 28, 2007
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday recommended against additional regulation of high-speed Internet traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- June 28, 2007
A Microsoft executive this week confirmed that Microsoft is close to offering a first step to help remedy the problem of Vista "downgrade rights," which posed complications for partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 28, 2007