In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- April 15, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Mark Logic Corp. has submitted its Extensible Markup Language (XML) database server for Common Criteria certification.
                    
			            - By Joab  Jackson
- April 15, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix Systems announced Monday that its new enterprise desktop virtualization product, XenDesktop, will debut next month.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- April 15, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Rumors that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will appear this month  continue to flourish.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 15, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing. 
                    
			            - By Patrick  Marshall
- April 14, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    About a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey released by Gartner this month.
                    
			            - By David  Nagel
- April 11, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 11, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- April 10, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's  automated security suite for home users and small businesses is available for  testing from the Microsoft Connect Web site.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 09, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference 2008, his company's  namesake information security conference, yesterday (April 8) in San Francisco with a  warning. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- April 09, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft today released information on protocols used in some of its software products.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 08, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    If the traditional notion of infrastructure-based perimeter security is not yet dead, it's not for lack of effort by keynote speakers at this week's RSA Security conference.
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
- April 08, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's released a public beta version of an integrated security solution, code-named "Stirling." 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- April 08, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Federal mandates for issuing interoperable electronic IDs to employees and contractors soon could spur the adoption of digital certificates and the use of public-key infrastructure (PKI) throughout the country, one industry observer predicts.
                    
			            - By William  Jackson
- April 08, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft rolled out five "critical" and three "important" patches for Windows Server 2008, Vista, Office, IE and other software. 
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- April 08, 2008