Microsoft has advanced to the next testing phase by issuing Release Candidate "Escrow"-build versions of Service Pack 2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 29, 2009
Microsoft's rollout of Windows 7 Beta, the company's newest operating system, has resulted in a stepped-up workload for the Department of Justice effort overseeing Microsoft's compliance with a past federal court antitrust ruling.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 28, 2009
Redmond says it's replacing its consumer security suite with a free product to provide more protection for Windows users worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 2009
Microsoft is still trying to control the Conficker worm, both the bug itself and news about how it's handling it.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 23, 2009
Despite grim stats announced on Thursday by Microsoft in its fiscal second-quarter report, at least one company in the software IT sector reported positive 2008 quarterly earnings.
- By Jim Barthold
- January 23, 2009
Microsoft announced lower than expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter said that it will eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 22, 2009
IBM on Monday rolled out social networking and collaboration services for businesses called "LotusLive," which integrates with IBM's venerable Lotus Notes e-mail and calendar application.
- By Jim Barthold
- January 22, 2009
Microsoft's disappointing second-quarter earnings showed just how dependent the software giant is on new PC sales.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 22, 2009
Microsoft is reorganizing two of its online teams -- Live Mesh and Live Services -- by centralizing them under a Windows segment, according to reports from Mary-Jo Foley and Todd Bishop published on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 19, 2009
Microsoft announced a client update to the beta version of Live Mesh on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 16, 2009
The European Commission (EC) issued a "Statement of Objections" against Microsoft's practice of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 16, 2009
Microsoft released a beta of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), which lets users run older OSes and applications on newer Windows systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 15, 2009
Users of Windows Server service that haven't patched a previously disclosed worm hole (MS08-067) are taking a big risk.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 14, 2009
As expected, it's a one-patch Tuesday, with a single item deemed "critical" in Microsoft's first security update for the year.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 13, 2009
Microsoft published an update to a Windows Media Player patch on Tuesday, the same day as its January general security update release.
- By James LaTour
- January 13, 2009