Microsoft is taking aim at U.K.-based Sage Software in an attempt to grab a greater stake in the enterprise resource planning software market.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 28, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- July 28, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Black Hat security conference continues this week in Las Vegas and Microsoft is once again rallying its industry allies, and even its competitors, to a common cause.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- July 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft issued a proposal last week that attempts to address European Commission concerns about its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 27, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's financials continued to decline, with the company reporting $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter -- a 17 percent decrease compared with last year's fourth quarter.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 24, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft appears to be broadening the market for its Windows Home Server (WHS) product to the small office/home office space. 
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- July 23, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft popped the champagne corks in Redmond today by announcing that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have both reached the "release to manufacturing" stage. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 22, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Open source software continues to make inroads into the federal government, and a new organization to promote open source applications has been established.
                    
			            - By Kathleen  Hickey
- July 22, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How should IT shops plan now that Microsoft has made noise about its latest productivity suite, Office 2010?
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- July 22, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The U.S. Census Bureau is deploying the Windows Mobile operating system on 140,000 PDAs being used for the 2010 census.
                    
			            - By Trudy  Walsh
- July 22, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft admitted on Monday that some users of Internet Explorer 8 may perceive its newest Web browser as sluggish.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit announced this week the release of Service Pack 2 for Mac Office 2008.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- July 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
                    
			            - By David  Nagel
- July 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has taken the once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community, allowing any commercial or community distribution of Linux to run as a virtual machine on top of Hyper-V.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- July 21, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft last week released tools for IT pros and partners planning Windows deployments.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 20, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- July 20, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A group of leading standards development organizations are working jointly to foster common standards for cloud computing and storage.
                    
			            - By Wyatt  Kash
- July 20, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced product names for its latest claims-based identity management server platform, dropping the "Geneva" code name.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 16, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft rolled out beta 2 of its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) enterprise security solution this week.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- July 15, 2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday announced Volume Licensing program changes that supposedly simplify matters for IT shops, as well as hosting providers.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- July 15, 2009