New survey of resellers finds them struggling with poor leads, misaligned vendor marketing and continuing conflict with direct sales teams.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2008
Advanced developers who want to tell their computer what to do (literally), rather than punch keys or click on icon, may want to check out a "pre-beta" technical preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros for Vista.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2008
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 29, 2008
Mr. Gates Goes to Washington
Last week, Microsoft's .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET -- Managed Extensibility Framework -- designed to improve compatibility with third-party extensions.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 28, 2008
IT execs are focusing on cutting costs rather than investing in technology this quarter, according to a report by research analysts at IDC.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 28, 2008
Live Mesh sounds like "HailStorm" in concept -- a way to access your data from any device with an Internet connection -- says Microsoft's Rosoff.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 25, 2008
Microsoft had flat revenue results as reflected in its third-quarter 2008 report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2008
Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft's Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo underway this week: Think open platform.
- By John K. Waters
- April 24, 2008
Windows XP, which will no longer be sold after June 30, will not get a reprieve despite Ballmer's quip at a press conference about relenting to customer feedback.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2008
New attack vectors and methods for hacker intrusion, it seems, are popping up every few months.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 23, 2008
Driven by compliance and public confidence issues, information security is expected to expand dramatically over the next few years, according to new research released by Frost & Sullivan and (ISC)².
- By David Nagel
- April 23, 2008
Spurned suitor Microsoft, which has been trying to acquire Yahoo since the end of January, adopted a new tactic today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2008
The tax filing season has passed, the economic stimulus rebate season is upon us, and the phishers are changing their bait.
- By William Jackson
- April 23, 2008
Microsoft and Novell have stepped up their collaborative efforts on open source operating system technology and intellectual property by moving their controversial enterprise Linux licensing agreement into the Chinese market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2008
Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms, Microsoft this week will release a sample application, tutorials and benchmarks to help simplify the development and deployment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 22, 2008
Microsoft rolled out its Dynamics CRM Online platform today as a generally available service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing, according to a post on Microsoft TechNet.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 21, 2008
Security personnel in Redmond are investigating a newly reported zero-day bug vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems and server systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 18, 2008
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 18, 2008