Microsoft continues to tweak its "Live" services effort, converging its current Windows Live Platform and Windows Live Core efforts, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday afternoon.
- By Barbara Darrow
- July 06, 2007
Europe's major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content.
- By The Associated Press
- July 05, 2007
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) plans to publish six security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 05, 2007
North American software developers are expecting to devote less of their efforts toward developing for the Microsoft Windows operating system, with some of the slack being absorbed by Linux and niche operating systems, according to a survey conducted by Evans Data Corp.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 03, 2007
Microsoft has released a new community technology preview of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which allows coders to program against data defined in a conceptual fashion instead of directly interacting with information stored in traditional table-and-column fashion.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 03, 2007
Google remains undaunted in its quest to become a legal player in the battle to keep Windows Vista's desktop search subject to federal scrutiny.
- By Keith Ward
- July 03, 2007
A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia as the Baltic nation sparred with Russia over a Soviet war memorial.
- By The Associated Press
- July 02, 2007
Virtualization rocketed to the top of the gotta-have-it technology list a few years ago, primarily as a means of consolidating servers. But since that initial resurgence, vendors have been finding other applications for the technologies that provide a layer of abstraction between hardware systems and the software running on them.
- By John K. Waters
- July 02, 2007
Vista Ultimate has been out more than half a year now, and several prominent Windows bloggers have been asking when more Extras are coming.
- By Keith Ward
- July 02, 2007
The iPhone hype makes it a natural target -- by scammers looking to sell Apple's first cell phone for a huge markup, and also by hackers looking to add to their bot networks.
- By Keith Ward
- July 02, 2007
In Dayton, a state employee returns to work to find a $2,000 computer stolen. In Cleveland, someone walks into an unlocked office and takes a $2,200 laptop belonging to the state auditor's office.
- By The Associated Press
- July 02, 2007
Here's an up-to-date sketch of Microsoft's competitive landscape -- including the peaks and valleys that most affect partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2007
Partners can get seen in the small business space through some basic marketing moves.
- By M.H. McIntosh
- July 01, 2007
Take steps ahead of time to ensure a successful Microsoft partnership on products that will succeed.
- By Paul DeGroot
- July 01, 2007
Opening an office near Microsoft's corporate HQ can help you get inside information and access to the right people -- or simply drain your bank account. Here's what to consider before deciding whether a Redmond branch is right for you.
- By Rich Freeman
- July 01, 2007