A consultancy to the U.K. government has forwarded complaints about Microsoft's licensing and interoperability practices to the European Commission (EC), according to an announcement issued by the Becta consulting group yesterday. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A preview version of the server for small-to-medium businesses is now available, according to a Microsoft announcement that included pricing and licensing details.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On Tuesday, Redmond rolled out four patches for the month of May as expected, with three deemed "Critical" and one "Moderate."
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- May 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations still aren't doing enough to protect their data from Web application vulnerabilities, according to a study released Tuesday by security firm Cenzic.
                    
			            - By David  Nagel
- May 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Tuesday morning Hewlett-Packard confirmed that it plans to acquire IT outsourcing services company Electronic Data Services for $13.9 billion, or $25 cash per share. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- May 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On Monday, VMware announced the release of two new virtualization management products: VMware Site Recovery Manager, a data and disaster recovery tool for datacenters, and VMware Stage Manager, designed for automating the delivery of virtualized applications and environments. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- May 13, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Office 2007 users will be able to get a new  service pack delivered automatically via Microsoft Update as early as mid-next  month. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 12, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IT pros are having a hard time balancing security, software patch management and IT auditing with a host of other duties, says a Shavlik Technologies survey.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- May 12, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On Monday Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 beta bits for public download. 
                    
			            - By Kathleen  Richards
- May 12, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    They're small and easy to create. They multiply like rabbits. The best become immensely popular very quickly and are forgotten just as fast. And they are changing the face of application development.
                    
			            - By Joab  Jackson
- May 12, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    An endless reboot problem associated with Windows service pack installations is back, but this time it is vexing some users who installed  XP SP3. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 12, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A bug that caused problems when backing up files in Windows Home Server has been fixed, according to an announcement issued by Microsoft on Wednesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 09, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft appealed penalty for noncompliance with an earlier European Commission antitrust ruling against the company. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 09, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Three patches will target critical remote code execution exploits in Microsoft Office, Publisher and the Jet Database Engine. 
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- May 08, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Just because you've deployed an enterprise-grade instant messaging (IM) solution from a well-known vendor, doesn't mean you've mitigated -- let alone completely licked -- the threat posed by rogue, unsanctioned or illicit IM use in your enterprise environment.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 07, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Redmond hopes to challenge SAS Institute and SPSS for data mining and predictive analytic bragging rights.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- May 07, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft issued the second community technology preview of its scripting and management tool for servers using Windows operating systems.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- May 07, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Thirty years after the first unsolicited e-mail advertisement was sent, the phenomenon now known as spam is continuing to grow -- and becoming more sophisticated, creative and malicious.
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
- May 07, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Deepening its existing partner relationship with Dell as a new competitive dynamic and pricing model unfolds, Citrix has announced the availability of a Dell-specific embedded version of XenServer for Dell PowerEdge servers.
                    
			            - By Tom  Valovic
- May 07, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Last month researchers at online security company Finjan uncovered a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers.
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
- May 06, 2008