Subscribers to Microsoft's professional services -- TechNet and the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) -- can begin downloading Windows 7 RTM editions starting today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 06, 2009
Engineers at Sun Microsystems rolled out a new user interface prototype for OpenOffice.org that looks like the "ribbon" UI found in Microsoft Office 2007.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 05, 2009
The move to the Internet cloud will pick up steam in the next year for developers, according to a new survey from Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 05, 2009
Microsoft plans to hire at least 400 Yahoo employees as part of its search-advertising deal with Yahoo, which was announced last week
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 05, 2009
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have simultaneously booted 1 million Linux kernels, all of which ran as virtual machines on the labs' Thunderbird supercomputer.
- By Joab Jackson
- August 05, 2009
Organizations using the BIND 9 DNS server are being urged to update and patch their servers to correct a zero-day vulnerability that can allow denial-of-service attacks.
- By William Jackson
- August 05, 2009
The release candidate (RC) version of Windows XP Mode is now available, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 04, 2009
Microsoft has released a beta version of its App-V 4.6 application virtualization technology.
- By John K. Waters
- August 04, 2009
IDC report says expenditures by enterprises on open source software jumped 34 percent last year and spending in 2009 is on pace to increase at least another 24 percent.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 04, 2009
Microsoft last week disclosed consumer pricing for Windows 7 upgrades, unveiling the Family Pack and Windows Anytime Upgrade options.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2009
Microsoft unveiled a point-of-sales solution for midmarket retailers on Monday as part of its Dynamics product line.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 03, 2009
Microsoft last week showed its appreciation to beta testers of Windows 7 by extending free copies to them -- well, not all of them.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2009
Cloud computing promises cost savings, increased flexibility and improved remote access to resources, but these advantages come at a cost.
- By William Jackson
- August 03, 2009
Microsoft changed its plans about issuing a special European version of Windows 7 that would lack Internet Explorer, according to a company announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 03, 2009
Analysts forecast $18.52 in ecosystem revenues for every $1 to Microsoft for the OS.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 01, 2009
The fourth quarter of 2008 and the first half of 2009 may have set the bar so low that the only way out is up.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 01, 2009
Access granted to technical preview for attendees at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 01, 2009
Company's approach combines Microsoft BPOS and monitored on-premise Exchange.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 01, 2009
Deshaies moves on to unspecified project for Microsoft U.S. Leadership Team, and Watson moves other executives around her WPG orgchart.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 01, 2009
When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 31, 2009