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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is looking into public reports of a vulnerability in Excel  that could enable a remote code execution attack by hackers.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
 - February 25, 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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    TechNet and MSDN  subscribers now have access to the Release  Candidate version of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
                    
			            - 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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft provided a strategic update at a  financial analyst meeting in New York,  describing prospects for the company's second half of the fiscal year, which  ends in June.
                    
			            - 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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Another vendor has thrown its hat into the enterprise virtualization ring. This one is red.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
 - February 23, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMLogix has partnered with Citrix to shore up its brand-new offering, adding lab management and automation capabilities to Citrix Essentials.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
 - February 23, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix and Microsoft, already close collaborators on many 
virtualization-based initiatives, ratcheted up their relationship Monday with 
the announcement of Citrix Essentials, a group of technologies calculated to 
shoehorn their way into the enterprise datacenters now dominated by VMware.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
 - February 23, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware on Monday joined the growing list of major software platform firms with a virtual partner training campus by launching a nine-language Partner University.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
 - 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
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Exploits for a serious cache-poisoning vulnerability discovered in the DNS last year have begun to appear in the wild, and they have made security researcher Dan Kaminsky a believer in DNS Security Extensions.
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
 - February 20, 2009