A new report from IDC, announced on Wednesday, suggested that the global economic malaise has already chipped away at the enterprise IT server market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2009
A team consisting of Microsoft Research personnel and university staff members has demonstrated a potentially more secure Web browser called Gazelle.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2009
In the keynote on Tuesday, Microsoft's Jason Zander showcased advances in the new VS 2010 user interface for the first time to VSLive! attendees.
- By Kathleen Richards
- February 24, 2009
Earlier this month, BeyondTrust released a report on security threats to IT shops running Microsoft software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 23, 2009
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2009
Microsoft got a favorable court ruling on Wednesday in an ongoing lawsuit against its past Vista Capable marketing practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2009
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- February 11, 2009
Worldwide shipments of PC microprocessors plummeted in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to a report announced on Wednesday by the International Data Group (IDC).
- By Herb Torrens
- February 11, 2009
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) today posted an open letter to President Barack Obama on open source software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 10, 2009
Redmond's February slate of security bulletins includes four patches -- two deemed "critical" and two "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 10, 2009
Microsoft's antitrust past has come back to haunt it, yet again.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 09, 2009
After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 06, 2009
Microsoft plans to rollout four security bulletins for this month's patch cycle on Tuesday, with two "critical" items and two "important" patches on the slate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 05, 2009
Microsoft has begun aggressively reaching out to the channel to prepare for the release of Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 04, 2009
EMC and Microsoft formally renewed a partnership on Tuesday, extending their collaborative efforts on virtualization, content management and security solutions for the enterprise market through 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2009
Users testing Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta have been asking Microsoft when it will release the final product, but Microsoft isn't saying right now, according to a Windows 7 team blog posted on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2009
A dispute with the European Union might change how Microsoft distributes its software in the region.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2009
One bright spot in the IT economy appears to be virtualization, with leading provider VMware today announcing that its yearly revenue rose 42 percent in 2008 to $1.9 billion. Fourth quarter revenues were a "solid" $515 million -- up 25 percent over last year.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 27, 2009
For the second time in as many weeks, after a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 27, 2009
Microsoft today made available Release Candidate 1 of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 27, 2009