Microsoft kicked off its first-ever Business Intelligence (BI) Conference in Seattle with a keynote speech by Business Division President Jeff Raikes, who spoke in general terms about Microsoft’s efforts to integrate existing products into businesses processes, without offering much in the way of specifics.
- By Keith Ward
- May 09, 2007
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 08, 2007
Branch offices present special challenges for IT, mostly because of often slow or unreliable WAN connections, and a lack of onsite IT personnel to secure the local network and computers. Microsoft Corp. and Cupertino, Calif.-based Packeteer believe they have found a solution with iShaper, which is being promoted as a "branch office in a box."
- By Keith Ward
- May 07, 2007
All seven updates will address critical issues, Microsoft said. Redmond lumped the bulletins into several groups, two of which affect Windows.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 04, 2007
BizTalk R2 represents a change in thinking about RFID, or radio frequency identification, says Microsoft product manager.
- By Keith Ward
- May 03, 2007
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- May 02, 2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
- By Keith Ward
- April 27, 2007
The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night.
- By Keith Ward
- April 25, 2007
Hoping to appeal to corporate IT shops looking to do their first implementation of virtualization technology, SWsoft on Wednesday will introduce an entry-level turnkey solution of its flagship product that will be priced below $1,200.
- By Ed Scannell
- April 23, 2007
Those with a desire to see how well messaging runs on 64-bit power but without the infrastructure or money to put that kind of environment in place now have a way to take a free, week-long test drive.
- By Keith Ward
- April 20, 2007
A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other patent infringement complaints.
- By The Associated Press
- April 12, 2007
Several Microsoft virtualization products are seeing their shipping dates slip.
- By Keith Ward
- April 12, 2007
As expected, Microsoft Corp. today published five new security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in its Windows and Microsoft Content Management Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 10, 2007
Microsoft has announced the availability of a software development kit (SDK) for its first-ever consumer-oriented server, Windows Home Server (WHS).
- By Keith Ward
- April 09, 2007
Flashy Forefront message suggests that security is easy to deploy across the enterprise.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2007