As expected, Microsoft's September "Patch Tuesday" update contains fewer security patches than in recent months -- four, to be exact.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- September 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's new server virtualization product is on schedule -- albeit a delayed schedule -- and expects to make a community technology preview (CTP) available with the first release candidate of Windows Server 2008.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Is Microsoft Office in danger of having real competition for the first time in a decade? That's the question being asked this week, as the battle for office productivity suites heats up on several fronts.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 11, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft will unveil three security enhancements as part of its upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) release, slated for early 2008.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- September 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    By 2012, smart phones that use a scaled-down variant of  the open source Linux operating system will account for roughly 31 percent of  all smart devices in the marketplace, according to ABI Research. Linux  smartphone technology will see its fastest growth, with annual growth rates as  high as 75 percent, in the 2007 to 2012 period.
                    
			            - By Will  Kraft
- September 10, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A recent graduate of Texas A&M University is charged with hacking into the school's computer system and illegally accessing information on 88,000 current and former students, faculty and staff members.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- September 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has dropped one fix from its September "Patch Tuesday" update, pulling Security Bulletin 5 that affected Windows and SharePoint Server.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- September 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Yesterday, Microsoft released the next component in its growing virtualization product line, announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). General availability is expected in October.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 07, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's patch rollout looks to be on the light side in September, with just five patches -- one of which is labeled "Critical" and four rated "Important" -- as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- September 06, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IT workers continue to ride a strong wave of increasing experience to a third straight year of high earnings, according to <i>Redmond</i> magazine's 12th annual Salary Survey.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 06, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    CodeGear is releasing a rapid application development (RAD)  environment for database-driven Web-based applications that supports multiple  versions of Microsoft Windows as well as the .NET Framework. The company's new  RAD Studio 2007integrated development environment (IDE) supports Windows 2000,  XP and Vista operating systems.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 05, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Group devises a more flexible method of handling policy  changes for Web services and service-oriented architectures.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- September 05, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The next beta versions of the products that make up the Windows Live suite were made available today.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 05, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has turned on the Silverlight.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
- September 05, 2007
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft Corp. has submitted a test version of its Windows Vista operating system with features that make it easier to use non-Microsoft programs to search PC hard drives, according to a report issued by the Justice Department Friday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- September 04, 2007