Looking to underscore the emphasis Microsoft is placing on its new Lync 2010 unified communications platform, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates made a surprise cameo at today's launch event.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 17, 2010
Microsoft today released the seventh "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2010
Microsoft concluded its 2010 annual shareholder meeting today, with few surprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2010
Microsoft published details this month about how it used its own Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 to improve the performance of its company-wide security monitoring system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2010
Microsoft on Monday announced that it had rolled out two "new" security baselines for use with its Security Compliance Management tool, plus new setting packs for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2010
Microsoft today announced a new white paper that explains the organizational and standards-based underpinnings of its cloud security efforts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 15, 2010
The parallel data warehouse edition of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 solution will soon see the light of day.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2010
Microsoft has scheduled the release of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials for the first half of 2011, the company announced on Monday.
- By Chris Paoli
- November 09, 2010
Microsoft announced today that the release candidate version of its Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 security product is now available for download.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2010
Hyper-V Cloud, one among several solutions announced at Berlin confab, aims to facilitate private cloud deployments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 08, 2010
By shifting computing operations to the cloud, organizations can reduce their carbon emissions by 30 percent, according to a study that is the basis of the report.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 04, 2010
The big news out of BMC Software Corp.'s fifth annual survey of mainframe shops is that there is no big news.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 04, 2010
One year after formally releasing its Windows 7 desktop operating system, Microsoft is making note that adoption among enterprises is exceeding expectations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 03, 2010
Google is suing the Interior Department for allegedly excluding Google's products in a request for quotation the agency issued on Aug. 30.
- By Michael Hardy
- November 02, 2010
A new Windows storage server option for small businesses appears to coming down the pipeline: Breckenridge.
- By Becky Nagel
- November 02, 2010
Dell today said it will acquire Boomi, which operates a service designed to simplify the integration of cloud services with premises-based infrastructure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 02, 2010
StatCounter: Microsoft browser usage dips below 50 percent worldwide.
- By Chris Paoli
- November 01, 2010
You can't re-enroll as a Gold Certified or Certified Partner anymore, but you can keep using the logos until next October.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2010
Midsize ERP product will feature role-specific dashboards.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 01, 2010
Updates cover deal registration, membership structures, the Elite designation and market development funds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2010