Microsoft has been looking to fill jobs associated with Windows 8, its next operating system beyond the current Windows 7 beta.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2009
There are a wealth of commercial tools available to help secure networks, but getting them to share information so that administrators have more than a piecemeal picture of their systems can be a challenge.
- By William Jackson
- April 22, 2009
As cyber security problems become more widespread, Microsoft urged the IT community to take a more active role, and described its security approach.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 21, 2009
The European Commission (EC) granted Microsoft another week to respond to a competition complaint involving its Internet Explorer Web browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2009
The first version of Microsoft's desktop virtualization tool was announced last week.
- By Jim Barthold
- April 09, 2009
As critics continue to question Microsoft's commitment to working with the open source community, a key Microsoft official last week argued the company has made significant progress while defending its right to enforce patents.
- By John K. Waters
- March 31, 2009
Forrester Research found that enterprises predominantly use Windows and Internet Explorer, but they're currently sticking with the older Microsoft technologies.
- By Herb Torrens
- March 24, 2009
Microsoft continues to squash bugs in its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, which was released last week for Windows-based PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2009
A study polling the use of Web browsers and operating systems affirmed Microsoft's dominant market position on both fronts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 17, 2009
nCircle's Tyler Reguly discovered a vulnerability that renders the Microsoft's DNS patch virtually useless if a server has already been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 12, 2009
The United Kingdom is the latest government to express support for the OpenDocument Format standard, which competes with Microsoft's Extensible Markup Language-based format.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- February 26, 2009
KDE (K Desktop Environment), based on the Qt Framework, is a desktop solution for UNIX environments.
- By Will Kraft
- February 20, 2009
Microsoft got a favorable court ruling on Wednesday in an ongoing lawsuit against its past Vista Capable marketing practices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 19, 2009
Microsoft changed course on its "custom support" policy by holding down a routine price increase this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 18, 2009
Trend Micro said hackers are targeting a hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was addressed in Microsoft's February security patch issued last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 18, 2009
ConverterTechnology upgraded its solution designed to ease migrations to Microsoft Office 2007.
- By Herb Torrens
- February 18, 2009
Microsoft and Red Hat inked a deal to ensure that Windows operating systems and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OSes can run as virtual machines on each other's platforms.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 17, 2009
Redmond's February slate of security bulletins includes four patches -- two deemed "critical" and two "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 10, 2009
A debate erupted over the effectiveness of the user account control feature in Microsoft's beta release of Windows 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- February 05, 2009
EMC and Microsoft formally renewed a partnership on Tuesday, extending their collaborative efforts on virtualization, content management and security solutions for the enterprise market through 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2009