New Internet attacks targeting computers that manage global Internet traffic has potential to overwhelm popular Web sites and disrupt e-mails
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- March 15, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The world industrial-standards association has rejected China's controversial wireless encryption standard for global use, news reports said Monday, dealing a blow to Beijing's effort to promote its own standards for computers and telecoms.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- March 13, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The FBI plans to spend up to $500 million building the final piece of its delayed, troubled technology upgrade, yet risks a repeat of earlier missteps that led to excessive costs, according to a government report released Monday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- March 13, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    NetIQ says it will ship next week a new Windows-based tool aimed at simplifying user change administration.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 07, 2006
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    From the business wires this week: a file transfer client/server for heterogenous environments, SQL Server and Exchange backup solutions, and a site for SOA resources. 
                    
			            - By Dan  Hong
- March 03, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is calling "speculation" a report that the company will have its highly anticipated grand gala to roll out Windows Vista in the first week of October.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 02, 2006
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is ready to unveil some heavy-hitting products in '06.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- March 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft began shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of Exchange 12 on Wednesday, marking the beginning of its first widespread testing.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Florida man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison in a computer theft case involving more than 1 billion records that Acxiom Corp., a data-management company, collected in its work for large corporations.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
- February 23, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Popular "second-shot" promotion keeps coming back; this time, it's worldwide.
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- February 15, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has quietly moved the delivery date of the next service pack for Windows XP to the second half of next year. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 20, 2006
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Everybody knows you need to reach out and touch your customers. The tricky part is figuring out just how often you can do so before you cross the line between attentive and annoying. 
                    
			            - By Fred  Bayles
- January 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Plenty -- as long as you combine it with a solid strategy to overcome SMBs' inherent fear of investing in IT. 
                    
			            - By Joanna L. Krotz
- January 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Competing with Linux once filled Microsoft partners with dread, but now 
        many are taking on the open source operating system with growing self-confidence 
        -- and success. Here are the tactics for winning the fight. 
                    
			            - By Rich  Freeman
- January 01, 2006
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft leads an industry-wide struggle to balance customer privacy and business value.
                    
			            - By Michael  Desmond
- January 01, 2006