The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution -- a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
VMware Inc.'s shares soared by 76 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday, reflecting a belief that the software maker is on the leading edge of a trend.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
Another LinuxWorld San Francisco has come and gone. The event combined LinuxWorld with the inaugural Next Generation Data Center show, drawing an estimated 11,000 attendees last week.
- By John K. Waters
- August 14, 2007
Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- August 14, 2007
Exchange Server 2007 reached the next step in its lifecycle with a community technology preview (CTP) of its first service pack.
- By Keith Ward
- August 14, 2007
Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 14, 2007
Microsoft has announced that it is releasing another version of XP Professional because it's run out of product keys.
- By Keith Ward
- August 13, 2007
Microsoft will be releasing a host of patches next week, including six "Critical" and three "Important" updates, in its monthly Patch Tuesday releases.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 09, 2007
The folks in Microsoft's Developer Division probably didn't mind the damp and drizzle of summer in Seattle as much this year, as they worked feverishly to polish the next iteration of the mothership. So far, it looks like the long hours paid off. Beta 2 of Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) 2008 IDE and .NET 3.5 landed, fully loaded, the last week in July.
- By Kathleen Richards
- August 08, 2007
Microsoft on Wednesday tried to clear up nagging questions about its Commerce Server roadmap and did. Kind of.
- By Barbara Darrow
- August 08, 2007
Microsoft on Tuesday officially released several updates for Windows Vista -- fixes that were initially released to the public last week, before being pulled down.
- By Keith Ward
- August 07, 2007
Terrorists and other criminals could exploit a newly discovered software flaw to hijack massive computer systems used to control critical infrastructure like oil refineries, power plants and factories, a researcher said Saturday.
- By The Associated Press
- August 06, 2007
VMware has the latest entry in the growing market for software that allows Windows to be run on a Mac.
- By Keith Ward
- August 06, 2007
Microsoft's Web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), continues to gain against longtime leader Apache, and could end up surpassing it if current trends continue.
- By Keith Ward
- August 06, 2007
IRS employees ignored security rules and turned over sensitive computer information to a caller posing as a technical support person, according to a government study.
- By The Associated Press
- August 03, 2007