Gartner revised its "worst-case scenario" forecast for the semiconductor industry due to an upswing in PC shipments, according to an announcement issued by the analyst firm on Thursday.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
 - May 29, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday. 
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
 - May 29, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    President Barack Obama on Friday announced the creation of the position of a cybersecurity coordinator who will direct national cybersecurity policy from the White House. 
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
 - May 29, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft published Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Monday for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 27, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recent study from IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology suggests that CIOs plan to invest in new IT initiatives over the next year, in spite of a bad (and possibly worsening) economic climate.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - May 27, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public  cloud, but without the attendant security and privacy headaches,  said Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of  enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat.
                    
			            - By Joab  Jackson
 - May 27, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday announced the creation of the "Social Enterprise Alliance," a partnership centered on the customization and integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 27, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft recently received a U.S. patent on technology that can restrict  software and hardware use on a computer
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
 - May 26, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has cancelled a hearing on alleged competition violations that was scheduled to take place before European Commission (EC) officials in early June.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 26, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned  3,632 access points (APs) and nearly 550 clients in seven different  financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either open  (unprotected) or used WEP encryption.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - May 26, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Friday announced that there's a problem for those who applied Service Pack 2 (SP2) to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) -- namely, it's timed to expire in 180 days. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 22, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's chief  software architect, Ray Ozzie, fielded questions from financial analysts at the  J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 21, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Monday alerted users of its Exchange Server  2007 product that Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be coming sometime in the third  quarter of this year.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
 - May 21, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft continued its foray into unified communications  (UC) with an announcement last week of support for a virtualized topology in  Microsoft Office Communications Server R2 (OCS R2).
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
 - May 19, 2009
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential  vulnerability in its  Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
 - May 19, 2009