What a difference a little money makes -- and it's nearly $7 billion in the case of New York-based chipmaker AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), which unveiled a major investment and restructuring deal on Tuesday.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/09/2008
Microsoft Springboard Virtual Roundtable examined Vista performance, fielding technical views from panelists that had actually carried out system upgrades.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/08/2008
You’ve seen them, but have you really ever used them?
- By Eric Johnson
- 10/08/2008
We all love the CSV format, so Powershell has a cmdlet that supports it.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/08/2008
Analyst firm Gartner put Microsoft at the top of its "leaders" category for information access technology, which includes enterprise search.
Migration to virtualization won't be the quick transition that some technology evangelists have predicted, according to recent surveys by two IT security companies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/07/2008
A new study from Gartner concludes that the WLANs of today comprise a "significant vulnerability" for enterprise IT organizations.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/07/2008
In a survey of CIOs, network admin skills -- particularly, expertise with Cisco, Nortel and other networking technologies -- continue to be in strong demand.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/07/2008
A quick one: Change the TS Web Access banner and keep users better informed of what they're connected to.
- By Greg Shields
- 10/06/2008
Microsoft kicked off its BI Conference this week in Seattle with news that it's planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of SQL Server database.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/06/2008
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer denied knowing the details of "Vista Capable," a Microsoft hardware certification and Vista marketing campaign.
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates expressed confidence in the current economic system, despite plunging market values, in a TV interview broadcast on Sunday.
Rumors that Microsoft initiated a hiring freeze are not true, according to Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos, who denied it in accounts published on Friday.
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/03/2008
Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash"?
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/02/2008
The Microsoft Learning Group is in the midst of beta testing a new exam for Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/02/2008
Yahoo plans to resolve a password security vulnerability identified last week in its Zimbra open source e-mail and collaboration software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/02/2008
And to use the -ErrorVariable cmdlet to keep track of them is divine.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/01/2008
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
A Microsoft partner subsidy promotion to stimulate cross-selling, upselling and license sales gets renewed for part of fiscal 2009.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/01/2008