Microsoft chose a former Yahoo executive to lead its Web-based search and advertising efforts, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- December 05, 2008
The last "Patch Tuesday" of 2008 will be a busy one, with Microsoft planning to release eight fixes next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 04, 2008
Enterprises are starting to appreciate software as a service (SaaS) and plan to maintain or grow their SaaS use, according to a survey conducted by Gartner, tapping 258 respondents.
- By Jim Barthold
- December 04, 2008
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), also known as desktop virtualization or hosted desktop, is typically used to move Windows desktop environments into a datacenter, where they reside on a server and are "pushed" out to end users.
- By Keith Ward
- December 04, 2008
This year, the IT industry reached an inflection point, where more new malicious programs were created than useful ones.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 03, 2008
Microsoft executive Bill Veghte answered a few questions about Microsoft's business strategies for the Windows product line at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 03, 2008
VMware rolled out the centerpiece of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) strategy today, with the release of VMware View 3.
- By Keith Ward
- December 02, 2008
Pentagon officials acknowledged that the malware known as Agent.btz recently affected some Defense Department systems.
- By Dan Campbell
- December 02, 2008
A Service Pack 2 beta Vista and Windows Server 2008 is available for subscribers to MSDN and Microsoft TechNet.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2008
Microsoft is initiating the fourth in a series of datacenter upgrades to enable its cloud computing services, according to a Microsoft blog post on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- December 02, 2008
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2008
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2008
Critics asserting that Windows Live OneCare didn't succeed on its own have got it wrong, according to Microsoft's chief security advisor for the EMEA region.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2008
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- December 01, 2008
- By Rich Freeman
- December 01, 2008
Just days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's declaration that Redmond was "done with all of these [acquisition] discussions with Yahoo," one newspaper is reporting that a deal is in the works.
- By Becky Nagel
- November 29, 2008
Microsoft is seeing an increase in the number of malware attacks exploiting a security hole supposedly addressed by a recent patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 26, 2008
IBM on Monday announced consulting services specifically designed to help organizations assess their options in using cloud computing technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 25, 2008
Facing criticism that the beta of its Web Platform Installer didn't support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft addressed that complaint with the release candidate made available yesterday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 25, 2008
The latest iteration of the Green500 list was released at the SC08 supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas.
- By Joab Jackson
- November 24, 2008