Mozilla rolled out security updates for Firefox after the Web browser was hacked during a contest two weeks ago at a software security convention in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 30, 2009
A Microsoft official took umbrage on Thursday to an "open standards" initiative proposed by a coalition of cloud computing technology providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2009
Hackers are increasingly attempting to influence search engines to misdirect users to spurious Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 16, 2009
Adobe Systems Inc. had its own Patch Tuesday yesterday when it issued a critical security fix for an Adobe Reader 9 bug that first got broad attention in late February.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 11, 2009
Microsoft this week unexpectedly issued a second release candidate of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, the company's a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 05, 2009
As Microsoft's main front man on security, Roger Halbheer has a tall order to fill.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 05, 2009
On its face, Microsoft's SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse could be a serious challenge to the data warehouse appliance players that have targeted SQL Server's shortcomings in large DW configurations, but DW appliance vendors aren't worried.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 04, 2009
Microsoft responded to queries about its January jobs cuts sent by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2009
Microsoft released a cumulative update to its application virtualization solution, which now supports the Windows 7 Beta, according to an announcement issued by the company on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2009
Microsoft's technical team on Thursday reported progress on improvements to the beta version of Windows 7, assuring testers that the team really cares about user feedback.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 26, 2009
Google is the latest Web browser maker to join the plaintiff's side in a European Commission (EC) complaint against Microsoft's Internet Explorer distribution practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 25, 2009
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
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
Earlier this month, BeyondTrust released a report on security threats to IT shops running Microsoft software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 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