Why can't a Web browser be more like an operating system? That's a question being investigated with "Gazelle," an ongoing project at Microsoft Research.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 02, 2009
Microsoft is planning to deliver Internet Explorer 8 via Windows Server Update Services, starting on Aug. 25.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2009
Networking giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed an interest in the hosted productivity suite space that Microsoft is poised to dominate.
- By Herb Torrens
- July 01, 2009
Google came through with fixes to its newly introduced e-mail and calendar synchronization application that works with Microsoft Outlook.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2009
A Symantec survey reveals the "rising [disaster recovery] pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service-level requirements to mitigate risk to the business."
- By Jim Powell
- June 30, 2009
Microsoft last week announced the availability of beta 2 of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2009
Microsoft's new Windows 7 "upgrade option program" for consumers and small businesses has a catch: the offer is restricted to buying 25 PCs or less.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2009
Microsoft is working with the government to establish secure system settings that are expected to become the Federal Desktop Core Configuration for Windows 7.
- By William Jackson
- June 29, 2009
Gartner reported a better-than-expected first quarter for PC shipments and is now forecasting a healthy market recovery in 2010.
- By Herb Torrens
- June 26, 2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced that hotfixes are now available to patch a SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) glitch that surfaced last month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 26, 2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced Windows 7 consumer pricing, an upgrade program for new PC buyers and a limited-time discount offer -- starting on June 26.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2009
Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is now available, company officials announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- June 24, 2009
The beta trial for Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 1.0 is now closed after 75,000 testers downloaded it following Tuesday's debut.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 24, 2009
Microsoft last week unveiled a surprise concession for users of its Office PerformancePoint Server product: a new Financial Planning Accelerator offering that could extend the life of that product.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 24, 2009
The downturn in the economy is affecting the role and spending strategies of IT organizations, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2009