Microsoft announced this week it is shipping the public beta for its forthcoming Forefront Server Security Management Console. The announcement came at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 08, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sun Microsystems Wednesday took the wraps off of its OpenDocument Format, or ODF, add-in for saving Microsoft Office 2003 documents in the emerging open standard's file format. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 08, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp., responding to a plea from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said Tuesday it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New Windows 2003 Web Hosting exam now available, as well as new certification track aimed at hosting providers. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
- February 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system might well be Redmond's most secure client operating environment to date, but that doesn't -- and couldn't -- mean Vista is completely unassailable. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- February 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VeriSign will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is preparing a spring release for an identity management infrastructure tool aimed at simplifying credential administration across the enterprise, officials said this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers after nearly three years of beta testing.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft quietly announced last week that it is making several key communications protocols used by its software available for license, so that third-parties, including competitors, can link into its newest enterprise products. Some are available immediately
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Keeping   information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's   most formidable challenge, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 06, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 06, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has asked Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to intervene in the case of a Russian school principal facing a prison term for buying pirated Windows software for his students, according to a statement.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 06, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 06, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week added another to a running tally of Office zero-day exploits that currently includes four known Word attacks.The software giant confirmed that it was investigating reports of a new round of "very limited" Excel zero-day attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in Office 2000, Office 2002 (XP), Office 2003 and Office 2004 Mac Edition. 
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- February 06, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has begun the open beta of Service Pack 3 for its aging Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 06, 2007