Microsoft is releasing an out-of-cycle patch Thursday for the Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability that attackers were already exploiting when the flaw was made public in the last week of December. Earlier this week, Microsoft had said it would not release a patch until its regular Patch Tuesday event next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 05, 2006
Spending on IT in the United States is set to grow by a modest 5 percent this year, according to new projections released by the technology market research firm IDC on Wednesday. The firm expressed unusual confidence about its numbers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2006
The focus of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is, as you might expect, consumer electronics. But amid the smart watches, television-ready cell phones and movie download services were a few tidbits sure to impact IT in the coming year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2006
Symantec is acquiring instant messaging software maker IM Logic.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 04, 2006
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser slowly but surely lost significant market share to Firefox over the past year, according to the latest monthly traffic report released Wednesday by Web metrics tool vendor Net Applications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 04, 2006
At the very end of 2005, Microsoft quietly began shipping the first beta of IronPython, a release of the open source Python scripting language that functions within the .NET common language runtime (CLR).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 04, 2006
The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 03, 2006
Intel kicked off the new year by updating its brand image to focus on the company’s emerging strategy of featuring itself as a platform company rather than just a chip giant.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 03, 2006
Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.
- By Michael Desmond
- January 03, 2006
Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.
- By Michael Desmond
- January 01, 2006
An industry alliance formally defines "spyware,"a move that should help companies combat insidious intrusions.
- By Lafe Low
- January 01, 2006
Microsoft and Massachusetts continue sparring over file formats.
- By Michael Desmond
- January 01, 2006
Security experts at F-Secure reported on Tuesday a zero-day exploit that exposes vulnerabilities in the Windows graphics handling engine to enable malware to take control of PCs running fully patched Windows XP SP2.
- By Michael Desmond
- December 29, 2005
If your plans call for taking the new-generation MCP developer and SQL exams in the next few weeks, tell us how you plan to approach them and what steps you'll take to pass them.
- By Michael Domingo
- December 29, 2005
Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 27, 2005
Users of Microsoft’s upcoming Outlook “12” will be able to monitor Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feeds from within the e-mail client, according to a Microsoft official’s Weblog.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 27, 2005
Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 27, 2005
Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 22, 2005
.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.
- By Michael Domingo
- December 22, 2005
The European Commissioner for Competition warned Microsoft on Thursday that it is facing fines of nearly $2.4 million per day unless it immediately delivers complete documentation of its programming interfaces, particularly those for work group servers, to enable competitors to interoperate with Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 22, 2005