Microsoft changed its plans about issuing a special European version of Windows 7 that would lack Internet Explorer, according to a company announcement.
When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/31/2009
Microsoft executives on Thursday explained the company's business and prospects at the 2009 Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting in Redmond, Wash.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the promotion of Brad Anderson, an executive who helped foster various server management products in the Microsoft System Center product line.
Microsoft and Yahoo finally consummated an Internet search advertising-text deal after almost two years of contentious wooing.
Microsoft is taking aim at U.K.-based Sage Software in an attempt to grab a greater stake in the enterprise resource planning software market.
Plus: Microsoft's security initiative comes out from under the hat; Office in a sandbox.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
The Black Hat security conference continues this week in Las Vegas and Microsoft is once again rallying its industry allies, and even its competitors, to a common cause.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/27/2009
Microsoft issued a proposal last week that attempts to address European Commission concerns about its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.
PowerShell, at version 2, takes help to another level.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/24/2009
Microsoft's financials continued to decline, with the company reporting $13.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth-quarter -- a 17 percent decrease compared with last year's fourth quarter.
U.S. authorities have not determined who was behind the recent cyber attacks that temporarily knocked some federal Web sites offline.
Microsoft popped the champagne corks in Redmond today by announcing that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have both reached the "release to manufacturing" stage.
Open source software continues to make inroads into the federal government, and a new organization to promote open source applications has been established.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 07/22/2009
How should IT shops plan now that Microsoft has made noise about its latest productivity suite, Office 2010?
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/22/2009
The U.S. Census Bureau is deploying the Windows Mobile operating system on 140,000 PDAs being used for the 2010 census.
The -AsJob parameter offers an alternative approach to remoting, one that's more interactive.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft admitted on Monday that some users of Internet Explorer 8 may perceive its newest Web browser as sluggish.
Plus: Windows 7 security baseline guide; Adobe installer flaw; U.S. still ranks in spam origination.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/21/2009