Microsoft is shipping Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of its PowerShell 1.0 command line environment and scripting language for Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 28, 2006
IBM Corp. is recalling 526,000 laptop batteries worldwide made by Sony Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
Symantec Corp. accused Microsoft Corp. of abusing its monopoly in deciding which security products can run on its upcoming operating system.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has released the first beta of its Forefront Security package for SharePoint, the company's portal technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 28, 2006
Microsoft Tuesday announced the broad public release of a beta developer kit for the .NET Micro Framework at the Embedded Systems Conference being held in Boston.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 27, 2006
An overhaul of how Microsoft deals with disability access technologies will take form in the next generation of the company's flagship programs.
- By The Associated Press
- September 27, 2006
Microsoft has begun beta testing its upcoming System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) version 2, the company said Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 27, 2006
Microsoft Corp. released an out-of-cycle patch for a critical vulnerability in Windows and IE relating to Vector Markup Language.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 26, 2006
A key Microsoft executive disclosed this week that the coming Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 may not be totally compatible with Windows Vista -- though it remains unclear what his statements mean.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 26, 2006
Partway into testing of Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, Microsoft has released an interim build of the system to be tested on the side by a subset of beta testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 26, 2006
Developers who build Web applications are more concerned about security, while corporate resources and processes that increase application security aren’t as forthcoming.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 26, 2006
Most virus writers no longer seeking widespread fame but money and maintaining anonymity in the process of obtaining it via botnets, says security vendor.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2006
It must say something about our times that Bruce Schneier, a geeky computer encryption expert turned all-purpose security guru, occasionally gets recognized in public.
- By The Associated Press
- September 25, 2006
In hopes of fighting Internet fraud, some online banking sites make customers use "virtual keypads" -- a method of entering passwords on the screen, generally with a mouse.
- By The Associated Press
- September 21, 2006
With Windows Vista nearly ready for rollout, two of Microsoft's “frenemies” -- Adobe and Symantec -- are taking their complaints of bundling to the European Commission, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 21, 2006