Microsoft has taken the once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community, allowing any commercial or community distribution of Linux to run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 21, 2009
Microsoft last week released tools for IT pros and partners planning Windows deployments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2009
Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 20, 2009
A group of leading standards development organizations are working jointly to foster common standards for cloud computing and storage.
- By Wyatt Kash
- July 20, 2009
Microsoft announced product names for its latest claims-based identity management server platform, dropping the "Geneva" code name.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 16, 2009
Microsoft rolled out beta 2 of its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) enterprise security solution this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- July 15, 2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Volume Licensing program changes that supposedly simplify matters for IT shops, as well as hosting providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 15, 2009
Microsoft announced pricing for its Windows Azure cloud computing services on Tuesday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2009
There are no surprises with Redmond's six-patch release on Tuesday, but there is plenty of work to be done, security pros contend.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 14, 2009
Microsoft Office 2010 has reached the technical preview testing stage, company officials announced on Monday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2009
On the eve of its July security patch release, Redmond issued a security advisory on flaws in the ActiveX control function -- the second such advisory in as many weeks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 13, 2009
SaaS provider Zoho announced yet another online collaboration platform aimed at legacy Microsoft offerings: Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access.
- By Herb Torrens
- July 10, 2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced three additional free extensions to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 that can boost the capabilities of the customer relationship management platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2009
On Tuesday, Microsoft is planning to roll out six fixes -- three "critical" and three "important" -- in its July security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 09, 2009
Recent denial-of-service attacks against government Web sites in the United States and South Korea appear to have had little impact and are not particularly sophisticated, experts say.
- By William Jackson
- July 09, 2009