Microsoft has devised a Windows Touch Logo Program for its hardware and software partners that are integrating products with Windows 7.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/27/2009
A Microsoft official took umbrage on Thursday to an "open standards" initiative proposed by a coalition of cloud computing technology providers.
The Distributed Management Task Force has released the first finished version of the Open Virtualization Format, a set of metadata tags that can be used to deploy a virtual environment across multiple virtualization platforms.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/25/2009
Since Microsoft's acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer last year, users have been keen to find out precisely what Microsoft plans to do with the company's search know-how.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/25/2009
Sun has released Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3, a major update to the company's virtualization management suite.
Developing and managing Web sites may have gotten a little easier with new tools announced by Microsoft this week as part of its MIX09 Web developer conference.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/20/2009
Microsoft won another round in a lawsuit over its "Vista Capable" practices after the federal judge overseeing the case dismissed a key plaintiff contention.
To help developers identify mechanisms that lead to system crashes or have other security implications, Microsoft will unveil its !exploitable (pronounced "bang exploitable") Crash Analyzer on Friday at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/20/2009
Microsoft today released the beta of its Silverlight 3 rich interactive media runtime and development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/18/2009
A recent report on Web security trends relayed a damning assessment of the IT security landscape that's prompting some to suggest the government should step in to give enterprises and individuals guidance on how to protect themselves.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/18/2009
Reports on Wednesday that IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems drew mixed views as to what Big Blue would gain from absorbing the struggling supplier of servers, open source software and Java.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/18/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of its latest e-commerce server, which integrates with SharePoint services.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/18/2009
Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) was released to manufacturing, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
Hackers are increasingly attempting to influence search engines to misdirect users to spurious Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/16/2009
Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the white-hot world of virtualization.
A white paper published by Microsoft on Wednesday concludes that Internet Explorer 8 is the fastest browser, based on benchmark testing conducted in a Microsoft lab.
In a bid to entice application providers to build and distribute their wares on the recently announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft today revealed plans to offer tooling and guidance on its developer portal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/11/2009
Adobe Systems Inc. had its own Patch Tuesday yesterday when it issued a critical security fix for an Adobe Reader 9 bug that first got broad attention in late February.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/11/2009
The Convergence 2009 event kicked off on Tuesday in New Orleans with couple of free product update announcements by Microsoft and the usual testimonials from Microsoft Dynamics customers.
Microsoft encouraged its hosting partners to move more into the "managed services" realm, offering incentives toward that end at last week's Microsoft Hosting Summit 2009 event.