From the business wires: a Group Policy security extension, a load testing tool for Web apps, USB flash drives with LCD displays, and Windows Media Player 11.
- By Dan Hong
- January 06, 2006
Microsoft showed off the newest additions to its growing Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, including an updated line of SPOT-enabled watches and a wireless weather forecasting center with an information link through MSN Direct.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2006
Microsoft is releasing an out-of-cycle patch Thursday for the Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability that attackers were already exploiting when the flaw was made public in the last week of December. Earlier this week, Microsoft had said it would not release a patch until its regular Patch Tuesday event next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 05, 2006
The focus of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is, as you might expect, consumer electronics. But amid the smart watches, television-ready cell phones and movie download services were a few tidbits sure to impact IT in the coming year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2006
Spending on IT in the United States is set to grow by a modest 5 percent this year, according to new projections released by the technology market research firm IDC on Wednesday. The firm expressed unusual confidence about its numbers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2006
Symantec is acquiring instant messaging software maker IM Logic.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 04, 2006
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser slowly but surely lost significant market share to Firefox over the past year, according to the latest monthly traffic report released Wednesday by Web metrics tool vendor Net Applications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 04, 2006
At the very end of 2005, Microsoft quietly began shipping the first beta of IronPython, a release of the open source Python scripting language that functions within the .NET common language runtime (CLR).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 04, 2006
Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.
- By Michael Desmond
- January 03, 2006
The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 03, 2006
Intel kicked off the new year by updating its brand image to focus on the company’s emerging strategy of featuring itself as a platform company rather than just a chip giant.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 03, 2006
Everybody knows you need to reach out and touch your customers. The tricky part is figuring out just how often you can do so before you cross the line between attentive and annoying.
- By Fred Bayles
- January 01, 2006
Though many experts credit Microsoft with making great strides on security, many customers still aren't satisfied. But how much of the problem is really Microsoft's fault?
- By Rich Freeman
- January 01, 2006
Plenty -- as long as you combine it with a solid strategy to overcome SMBs' inherent fear of investing in IT.
- By Joanna L. Krotz
- January 01, 2006
Competing with Linux once filled Microsoft partners with dread, but now
many are taking on the open source operating system with growing self-confidence
-- and success. Here are the tactics for winning the fight.
- By Rich Freeman
- January 01, 2006