A tool for determining whether or not computers can handle the Windows Vista operating system has been updated, with some useful new features.
- By Keith Ward
- June 08, 2007
Developers can now take a first hand look at Microsoft’s next major upgrade of its flagship database platform. The company this week released the first CTP of SQL Server 2008, until now known as Katmai.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 08, 2007
The next "Patch Tuesday" will also be "Upgrade Tuesday" for admins, as Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) through Automatic Updates.
- By Keith Ward
- June 08, 2007
New standard provides better support for e-commerce and enterprise security.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2007
Microsoft continues to push forward its program granting amnesty to potential patent violators, this time inking South Korea's LG Electronics (LGE) to a deal.
- By Keith Ward
- June 07, 2007
The company develops MCA title for DBAs who want to showcase their database architecting skills.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 07, 2007
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) plans to publish six security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 07, 2007
It rains a lot in Portland. So on days when the sun's rays make it all the way to the ground, who wouldn't want to take the city's new free Wi-Fi service for a spin?
- By The Associated Press
- June 07, 2007
Altiris has updated its virtualization software to work with Windows Vista. Symantec, which recently acquired Altiris, announced at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando the release of the latest version -- 2.1 -- of its Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS).
- By Keith Ward
- June 07, 2007
American technology companies will lose highly skilled foreign workers to Indian and Chinese rivals if the country's work-visa program is not fixed, a Google executive warned Congress on Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- June 06, 2007
Apache and IIS are equally at fault for pumping malware into the wild, according to a new study.
- By Keith Ward
- June 06, 2007
Want to toy around with Windows Vista or Vista with Visual Studio 2005 but not pay for them? Microsoft is making it possible through the magic of virtualization.
- By Keith Ward
- June 06, 2007
Speculation has been growing in the media that Windows Server 2008, could be delayed past its RTM and slip into 2008. Microsoft says "it just ain't so."
- By Keith Ward
- June 05, 2007
In a surprise to absolutely no one, the official name of the next edition of Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE) will be Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft announced this week at its Tech Ed 2007 show in Orlando, Fla.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft is readying a beta of a new SKU of its next generation of Visual Studio, intended for those who want to embed it into their own tools.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 05, 2007
Just when you thought it was safe to start planning your summer vacation, Cisco
Systems Inc. recently alerted customers to a spate of new vulnerabilities in
its Internetwork Operating System (IOS).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft said it expects to have Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, its virtual collaboration and conferencing software, released to manufacturing later next month, with availability some time this fall. The company made the announcement at the Tech Ed Conference taking place this week in Orlando, Florida.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft's subscription-based desktop management program is adding another branch to its tree, in the form of error monitoring to help with crashes.
- By Keith Ward
- June 05, 2007
Online software pioneer Salesforce.com Inc. will help Internet search leader Google Inc. sell ads as part of a partnership that falls short of Wall Street's anticipation since word of the alliance leaked last month.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2007
An investigation of IBM Corp. by the Securities and Exchange Commission ended Tuesday without penalty, although the government found that the technology company misled analysts about employee stock-option expenses in 2005.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2007