As expected, the last Patch Tuesday offers fixes for seven vulnerabilities -- three of them critical -- and sets the tone for 2008 as the "year of the Vista Patch."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 11, 2007
Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former Microsoft program manager for MSDN, faces arraignment this week on 18 felony counts of wire and mail fraud in the U.S. District Court of Washington, Western District of Washington, Seattle.
- By Becky Nagel
- December 10, 2007
Microsoft posted a "public" beta of Office Live Workspace, cloud-based functions that it says complement its on-premise Office franchise.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 10, 2007
In case there was any doubt that virtualization is the hottest trend in IT, witness the rush of vendors glomming onto this technology.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 06, 2007
Microsoft Corp. will begin testing a version of Windows XP in January on the "$100 laptop" from One Laptop Per Child.
- By The Associated Press
- December 06, 2007
Microsoft publishing release candidates of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista's first service pack.
- By Keith Ward
- December 06, 2007
Microsoft's last Patch Tuesday release of 2007 is a big one -- seven fixes, with three of them deemed "Critical" and four labeled "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 06, 2007
Researcher in New Zealand discovered holes in Microsoft's Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) program.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 05, 2007
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 05, 2007
Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of the first component of its new virtualization platform, and laid out a roadmap for opening the platform's source code. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems company bills its xVM Ops Center virtualization management tool as a "highly scalable datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments."
- By John K. Waters
- December 05, 2007
Microsoft beta tests three TS-level exams until Dec. 21.
- By Michael Domingo
- December 04, 2007
Microsoft said that the first service pack for Windows Vista will fight off known exploits as well as kill off its "reduced functionality mode."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 04, 2007
Google Inc. confirmed its plans to bid for a prized piece of the airwaves in an upcoming government auction, further underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to shake up the wireless market and plumb more profits from mobile phones.
- By The Associated Press
- December 03, 2007
Microsoft has talked a ton about why Unified Communications can be a big value to users.
- By Barbara Darrow
- December 03, 2007
Police questioned the suspected teenage kingpin of an international cyber crime network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions of dollars from victims' bank accounts, officials said.
- By The Associated Press
- November 30, 2007