A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
IT administrators looking to move from the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 e-mail message server, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2005, are getting a helping hand from PostPath. The company released its One-Step Migration Methodology to help Exchange 5.5 users switch to the PostPath Server 3.0 e-mail and collaboration server.
- By David Kopf
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft is rolling out changes to its search engine aimed at narrowing the gap between it and market leader Google Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2007
Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.
- By Keith Ward
- September 26, 2007
Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
- By Keith Ward
- September 25, 2007
Office 2008 for Mac will be available in the U.S. beginning next Jan. 15.
- By Keith Ward
- September 25, 2007
Hackers stole millions of credit card numbers from discount retailer TJX Cos. by intercepting wireless transfers of customer information from two Miami-area Marshalls stores, according to an eight-month investigation by the Canadian government.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2007
Microsoft released several major updates for its Windows lineup today, including the first release candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 and the initial public beta for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.
- By Keith Ward
- September 24, 2007
A European think tank is recommending to the European Commission that computers sold abroad come without any operating system pre-loaded.
- By Keith Ward
- September 24, 2007
Although Microsoft had hoped to release a CTP of its newest database server every 60 days, the latest test release will slip, company officials acknowledged this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 21, 2007
The head of a leading security software vendor denounced the use of data files commonly used by Google Inc. and other Web sites to track user activity, saying such sites should seek permission ahead of time.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2007
The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 19, 2007
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 19, 2007
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 19, 2007
A computer administrator at one of the nation's largest prescription drug management companies admitted Wednesday he planted an electronic "bomb" in the company's computer system.
- By The Associated Press
- September 19, 2007