VMware announced today the release of VMware Workstation 6, the first of its virtualization products to offer support for Windows Vista.
- By Keith Ward
- May 09, 2007
Microsoft kicked off its first-ever Business Intelligence (BI) Conference in Seattle with a keynote speech by Business Division President Jeff Raikes, who spoke in general terms about Microsoft’s efforts to integrate existing products into businesses processes, without offering much in the way of specifics.
- By Keith Ward
- May 09, 2007
If you're taking your first MCP or Microsoft Dynamics exam, you're eligible for a 40 percent discount on your very first exam.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 09, 2007
Cisco Systems Inc.'s fiscal third-quarter profit surged 34 percent as widespread networking upgrades and consumers' thirst for more bandwidth continued to fuel the company's robust growth.
- By The Associated Press
- May 09, 2007
Business software maker SAP AG announced plans Tuesday to buy OutlookSoft Corp. and its line of technology products tailored for budgeting and financial forecasts, the latest development in SAP's duel with Oracle Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- May 09, 2007
While most corporations eventually intend to migrate, it could be a long process, and there are still significant concerns with Vista.
- By Keith Ward
- May 08, 2007
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 08, 2007
Research in Motion this week announced it is developing a Visual Studio plug-in for developing apps for BlackBerry devices, a move that follows its late-April announcement of software that will provide Windows Mobile 6-based phones with a "virtual" BlackBerry experience.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- May 08, 2007
When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas last week, the new cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content lacked support for the popular Opera Web browser.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- May 08, 2007
Computer and printer maker Hewlett Packard Co. lifted its second-quarter forecast on Tuesday, citing strong results in its personal computer and server businesses.
- By The Associated Press
- May 08, 2007
Sun Microsystems today unveiled a new product line at its annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco. Built on and around Java, JavaFX is aimed at the growing market for rich Internet applications (RIA).
- By John K. Waters
- May 08, 2007
Microsoft Corp. today published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 08, 2007
Shavlik Technologies is offering a free download of its network solution to detect security misconfigurations and missing critical updates in older installed Microsoft products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 08, 2007
Windows Vista's mail client is obsolete after just a few months of life as a commercial product.
- By Keith Ward
- May 08, 2007
Dell has become the first hardware maker to join Microsoft and Novell in their effort to enhance interoperability between the Windows and Linux platforms.
- By Keith Ward
- May 07, 2007
The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.
- By The Associated Press
- May 07, 2007
A court Monday found the principal of a village school guilty of using bootleg Microsoft software and ordered him to pay a fine of about $195 in a case that was cast by Russian media as a battle between a humble educator and an international corporation.
- By The Associated Press
- May 07, 2007
The last time Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs took on major recording companies, he refused to budge on his 99-cent price for a song on iTunes.
- By The Associated Press
- May 07, 2007
Branch offices present special challenges for IT, mostly because of often slow or unreliable WAN connections, and a lack of onsite IT personnel to secure the local network and computers. Microsoft Corp. and Cupertino, Calif.-based Packeteer believe they have found a solution with iShaper, which is being promoted as a "branch office in a box."
- By Keith Ward
- May 07, 2007
A recent study commissioned by systems management and deployment appliance maker KACE found that the majority of IT professionals working in "Fortune 100,000" or mid-sized companies" (defined as those companies with 100 to 100,000 employees) fear they could lose their job in the event of a security breach at their company.
- By James E. Powell
- May 04, 2007