Microsoft lawyer David Finn says the final prosecutions in a global piracy ring mark progress in the massive fight against software counterfeiting. 
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- March 31, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security experts warn of rise in "poisoning" of thousands of Web pages via iFrame exploit.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- March 31, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft yesterday published a trial version of its latest desktop  search engine called Windows Search 4.0 Preview. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 28, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Want Windows XP SP3 for real? You can't have it now, but  there is a beta Refresh to play with in the mean time.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 27, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    PCs made by Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, China's Lenovo and others couldn't be upgraded to Vista Service Pack 1 if they were using certain Intel chipsets.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- March 26, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week  in Santa Clara, Calif. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- March 26, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows XP service pack 3 will have its release-to-manufacturing debut in April of this year, according to the Tech ARP Web site.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 25, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week made available its set of IT deployment tools  and practices called Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 25, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Network researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a method that federal systems administrators can use to protect their systems from increasingly complex attacks launched via the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet and private IP networks.
                    
			            - By Dan  Campbell
- March 25, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Vertical business networks will play a significant part in  the future of software-as-a-service (SaaS) by consolidating multiple SaaS  solutions into more convenient packages, said Colleen Smith, VP of SaaS at  Progress Software, in an interview this month.
                    
			            - By Will  Kraft
- March 25, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft confirmed "very limited, targeted" attacks on an open Word security flaw. The company is researching a patch.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- March 24, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A calculation-error bug in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, which was acknowledged by Microsoft last Friday, has been resolved with a security update.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- March 21, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is on a buying spree, and its latest acquisition is rootkit security vendor Komoku.  
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- March 21, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix has become the latest entry into the increasingly-crowded field of embedded hypervisors.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- March 20, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A data security breach within Massachusetts grocery chain Hannaford Bros. on Monday not only led to 1,800 known cases of fraud but is also serving as debate fodder in the ongoing argument about data ownership and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- March 19, 2008