Don't look now, but word surfaced last week of still another Word zero-day attack. That brings the tally of unpatched Word zero-day attacks up to four. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on Jan. 9 was conspicuously bereft of patches for any of then-extant Word exploits, and -- with a fourth one in the wild, and with proof-of-concept code possibly circulating -- it looks like Microsoft Corp.'s next Patch Tuesday can't come fast enough.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 29, 2007
Update on the Microsoft Certified Architect Program
- By Anne Stuart
- January 26, 2007
For every dollar Redmond gets, partners see about 18 more.
- By Anne Stuart
- January 26, 2007
Microsoft and HP partner to challenge IBM in the market for enterprise services.
- By Lee Pender
- January 26, 2007
The long-delayed launch of the Windows Vista operating system cut into fiscal second-quarter profits at Microsoft Corp., which reported a 28 percent drop in earnings Thursday despite decent revenue growth.
- By The Associated Press
- January 25, 2007
Virtualization vendor VMware announced Thursday it is shipping the public beta version of its Workstation 6.0 product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 25, 2007
Microsoft is shipping a Firefox plug-in version of its Photosynth 3D photo processing software technology preview.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 25, 2007
On the eve of the consumer launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp. is extending the period in which it will offer support for the previous version, Windows XP.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Wall Street has welcomed Sun Microsystems Inc. back in the black, but investors are questioning whether the notoriously boom-and-bust company can remain profitable for the long term.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Computer records containing medical claim information, health data and Social Security numbers of 28,279 health insurance customers of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. were stolen from the office of a vendor in Massachusetts, the company said.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust lawsuit filed by the distributor of Morpheus file-sharing software against Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA, eBay Inc. and other defendants.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Juror in Iowa antitrust trial against Microsoft dismissed for undisclosed reasons.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Global consumers of XP Home to get extended support past '09, perhaps even longer than 2010.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Lockbox with backup tapes containing data on 130,000 Aetna members taken in break-in at insurer's outsourced billing services firm.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
TOKYO: Microsoft Corp. plans to extend the free support period for its Windows XP Home Edition software at least one year longer than originally planned, a news report said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
The ever-expanding LeBron James empire is entering a new realm. Microsoft Corp. is using the NBA star to promote next week's consumer release of its new Windows Vista operating system. James will make what a Microsoft spokesman described Tuesday as cameo appearances on national television commercials that will begin airing Jan. 30.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Microsoft is extending its branch office promotion to enterprises with a large number of remote branch sites, with discounts as deep as 43 percent, the company announced Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 24, 2007
Microsoft cash offer raises question: What's wrong with accepting money to write on Wikipedia?
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that CEO Mark Hurd received an $8.6 million bonus in 2006, a year of strong performance but one plagued by scandal over its shady boardroom spying antics.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker behind Intel Corp., said Tuesday that it swung to a loss in the fourth quarter as the company incurred heavy costs related to its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc., negating record processor sales.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2007