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Big Blue upped its ante in the software as a service (SaaS) space this week with the release of a hosted version of its venerable corporate e-mail software.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/23/2008
Redmond on Thursday released a critical out-of-cycle security patch affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/23/2008
Even sans GUI, Powershell can be made to work interactively. The trick is the Read-Host cmdlet.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/22/2008
Yahoo's revenue was up by one percent, year-over-year, according to its third-quarter results published on Wednesday, but its workforce will still get cut by 10 percent.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/22/2008
"Disaster breeds opportunity," so the old slogan goes. But when it comes to uncertain economic times, companies should double-check their internal policies and procedures, security experts say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/22/2008
A common problem when restoring databases is making orphans of users. Here's a quick fix.
- By Eric Johnson
- 10/22/2008
One of the most closely tracked companies on Wall Street's radar screen did not disappoint expectations with reported revenues for the third quarter of $472 million, a 32 percent increase achieved under increasingly difficult market conditions.
On-line gamers using profanity in audio chat sessions may have their act cleaned up if Microsoft has anything to say about it.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/21/2008
Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that it did not release the next version of its Sync Framework on Oct. 13, as reported by some news outlets last week.
Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008), the second major component of its virtualization strategy.
Enterprise IT professionals concerned about laptops holding proprietary corporate data should be heartened by a new 3G mobile security technology update from Alcatel-Lucent.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/21/2008
Admin wonders why user names in Exchange Server 2007 comes up with errors.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 10/20/2008
Google on Thursday reported strong revenue growth for its third quarter, despite a faltering economy.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2008
The updated Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 will make the IP private branch exchange (PBX) "the electronic typewriter of enterprise voice" by using software to do the job that hardware did in the past -- only do it better.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/20/2008
An IDC study released on Thursday depicted a slowing worldwide market for virtualized servers.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2008
Sun Microsystems this week announced the release of the latest version of its open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OO3).
Microsoft's CEO talked about Windows 7 and the company's vision for syncing up applications in the Internet cloud at a Gartner-sponsored event on Thursday.
A software project by a Columbia University computer science student to eliminate the need for multiple hardware-based touch interfaces is now on Microsoft's Codeplex site.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008