For those who are interested in Microsoft's plans for software as a service (SaaS), the company has published a sample application illustrating how it's done.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 15, 2007
Microsoft delays release of some of its new-generation MCP exams for Vista in favor of retesting; exam 70-624 gets a Valentine's Day debut.
- By Michael Domingo
- February 14, 2007
There isn't much data yet on early sales of Windows Vista, but from what there is it appears that the new system is off and running.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 14, 2007
Nagging antitrust case in Iowa draws to a predictable close. Settlement details will be ironed out in a different court hearing.
- By The Associated Press
- February 14, 2007
Novell and Microsoft on Monday presented an update on the two firms' progress in their November deal to make nice and work more closely together.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 13, 2007
Microsoft Corp. plans a launch this spring of its next-generation operating system for wireless devices, Windows Mobile 6.
- By The Associated Press
- February 08, 2007
Microsoft Security Response Center plans to publish 12 security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 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
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
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
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
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
Microsoft said it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software.
- By The Associated Press
- February 06, 2007