Microsoft held its Shareholder meeting for 2008 on Wednesday, and shareholders approved all nine board-member nominees on the proxy slate.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 19, 2008
Microsoft and Novell issued an announcement on Tuesday marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial agreement surrounding Linux patents.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 19, 2008
Redmond is rolling out a free anti-virus software program for consumers that will compete with products made by Symantec and McAfee.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 19, 2008
Three companies are seeking indemnification from Microsoft after being sued for using technology associated with Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2008
CIOs have come a long way, but they haven't quite reached the status of "full and active participants" in creating strategies in organizations, according to a new study released this week by the Center for CIO Leadership.
- By David Nagel
- November 18, 2008
A team of security researchers this week demonstrated an attack confirming that the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol can be compromised.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 18, 2008
Jerry Yang is transitioning out as Yahoo's CEO, but he will continue on as a member of the board, according to an announcement issued late on Monday by the online search and advertising company.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2008
Microsoft exec Stephen Elop announced hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint, which are now available to organizations of all sizes in the U.S. market
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 18, 2008
Microsoft has opened another consumer-oriented electronic software distribution (ESD) point, this time serving U.S. customers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2008
Netbooks and mobile computers will soon be able to run the Ubuntu operating system with additional energy efficiency.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 17, 2008
Court documents may contain a "smoking gun" reference to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's participation in a crucial decision to downgrade capabilities needed to gain Windows Vista Capable certification in new PCs.
- By Jim Barthold
- November 17, 2008
Microsoft's Office Web applications, announced late last month at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, will work on "multiple platforms" including Apple's iPhone, according to a Microsoft Channel 10 blog.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2008
Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 14, 2008
Microsoft has come clean and confirmed that it took seven years to deliver its Server Message Block (SMB) fix.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 13, 2008
Microsoft plans to roll out updates to its Windows Live services and Windows Live Essentials offerings, which are aimed at consumer users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 13, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices will release the next generation of quad-core Opteron processors, a line formerly code-named "Shanghai," by the end of the year, according to Steve Demski, an AMD product and marketing manager.
- By Joab Jackson
- November 13, 2008
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has upgraded its Cray XT-based Jaguar supercomputer, putting the machine in the running as the world's fastest supercomputer.
- By Joab Jackson
- November 13, 2008
Despite a troublesome economy, IT staff and executive positions are safe for now, according to a market study released on Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 12, 2008
It has taken years and a few concept findings by hackers for Microsoft to finally patch its Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability, but the point is that it's finally done, security experts say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 12, 2008
Parallels has released Parallels Desktop 4.0, an update to the company's desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X.
- By David Nagel
- November 12, 2008