Microsoft mostly beat financial analyst expectations in its fiscal second quarter, reporting overall earnings of $19.9 billion.
Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a former general manager working in the public sector market who left for an executive position at Salesforce.com.
Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft.
Microsoft announced today that it has rolled out a new support lifecycle policy for its Online Services offerings.
The Document Foundation today released LibreOffice 3.3, calling it the first "stable release" of the free, open source productivity suite.
IE still vulnerable, but hackers are heat-seeking on other browser targets. Plus: Browser makers making "no tracking" a feature priority; Wordpress plug-in threatened by SQL injection attack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/24/2011
Microsoft today highlighted some of its interoperability accomplishments reflected with the release of the open source Drupal 7 content management (CM) system.
Salesforce.com hired Microsoft GM Matt Miszewski as senior vice president for the global public sector.
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to enable its .NET Framework 4 on Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, will be stepping down from that position while continuing to serve the company as executive chairman.
Scammers have set their sights on tablets and smartphones, and away from Windows desktops, in response to rising consumer demand for mobile devices.
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2011
Brad Brooks, a Microsoft executive who helped promote Windows 7 to consumers, has signed up for a new marketing role at Juniper Networks.
One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft today unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2011
Version 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week.
An analysis of the Stuxnet worm shows it to be a combination of sophisticated and flawed work, most likely the product of a partnership between several entities with varying levels of expertise and resources.
- By William Jackson
- 01/19/2011
Company adds new tools to SDL for developers. Plus: Windows Live Messenger update is mandatory; researchers says third-party vulnerabilities, attacks to outpace Windows attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/18/2011
The Worldwide Web Consortium today unfurled an HTML 5 logo as part of an overall publicity campaign.
Customize graphical elements of the user's desktop via the Shell.Application COM object. Yes, it can be done through PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/18/2011
Microsoft today announced the formal product name of its next-generation Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning solution.