Uncertain financial climate, new U.S. president, new Windows OS -- all on the horizon and bound to affect partners in some way.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2009
Microsoft should learn a couple of things from its Vista missteps.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- January 01, 2009
In a change with implications for the channel, Enrique Salem will replace John Thompson as CEO in April.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2009
A top Microsoft official says the company expects to release a beta version of its next operating system this month-with a launch to follow in early 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 01, 2009
Redmond continues to investigate a new zero-day bug affecting popular database application SQL Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 23, 2008
MySQL 5.1 was released by Sun Microsystems in April, but I decided to test it out this month.
- By Will Kraft
- December 19, 2008
The public release of Windows 7 Beta 1 is expected next month, but speculation that it might appear earlier popped up on Friday from a few sources.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 19, 2008
While developers feel blindsided by Microsoft's shift to Entity Framework, company officials defend move and say LINQ to SQL is not on death row.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 18, 2008
How do you know that your antivirus (AV) program is working?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 18, 2008
As expected, Microsoft released its second out-of-cycle patch in three months -- this time to plug a widely discussed and "critical" vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 17, 2008
Microsoft released a beta version of its Code Analysis Tool and Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library for developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 16, 2008
Microsoft won't say exactly when it will ship the Release Candidate of its Internet Explorer 8 browser but it's "just around the corner," according to a senior company official.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 16, 2008
Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1.
- By Herb Torrens
- December 16, 2008
Microsoft will end 2008 with a "critical" out-of-cycle patch for IE, according to an advance notification issued Tuesday for a new security update slated for release on Dec. 17.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 16, 2008
Cisco's 2008 Annual Security Report report highlighted the increasing sophistication of Internet-based attacks, largely because cyber-criminals themselves are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 16, 2008