Service Pack 1 (SP1) for System Center Operations Manager has been released to manufacturing and is now available for download online. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 25, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    One of the great things about virtualization is that it makes it incredibly easy to add a new server -- or 10, or 100 new servers. 
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- February 25, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    It's no "reduced functionality mode"; still, Microsoft has other tricks to encourage those using pirated copies of Vista to upgrade to legitimate versions.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 25, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    While Microsoft's announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- February 22, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.  
                    
			            - By James E. Powell
- February 21, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. today released a list of known programs that experience some sort of "loss of functionality" with Windows Vista SP1.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 21, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company's upcoming Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 now under Windows Essential Server Solutions umbrella. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 20, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is stopping automatic distribution of an update required to install Vista SP1 following reports of faulty reboots on some machines.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 20, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. to give away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard and other software to college students worldwide. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 19, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A fully baked beta release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is  now available for testing.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- February 19, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced the recent promotions of 14 executives, seven to senior vice president positions and seven others to corporate vice president.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- February 15, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Migration to the Windows Vista operating system apparently isn't  generating much enthusiasm among IT personnel in the enterprise. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 15, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    E-mails that have come to light in the ongoing suit against Microsoft regarding its "Vista Capable" and "Vista Ready" labels for PCs show that even prominent executives within the company questioned the plan.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Timed with the 2008 Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona this week, Microsoft made announcements pushing its interests further into the consumer and global mobile market.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general  trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the  enterprise.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 13, 2008