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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week rolled out a beta of its new planning tool, which is designed to help its partners and customers migrate to products within the Microsoft stack.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- June 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Last month, according to Symantec Corp. subsidiary MessageLabs, the spam tally eclipsed 90 percent of all business e-mail.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- June 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week released a public beta of Configuration Manager Service Pack 2.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 22, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday will roll out a public test version of its free consumer security application, which was previously known by its code name, "Morro."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- June 18, 2009