CA Inc. is so confident in its products, it is offering up to $1,500 for computer repairs should users of its anti-virus software get infected.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- September 28, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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