Microsoft is stopping automatic distribution of an update required to install Vista SP1 following reports of faulty reboots on some machines.
Company's upcoming Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 now under Windows Essential Server Solutions umbrella.
Also: Chinese bloggers get DDOS'd; Microsoft does its part to warn users on legacy file support; Sears doesn't come clean on privacy.
Windows Update Agent shines like a gem in the rough, its brilliance even more evident when set next to SCE.
- By Greg Shields
- 02/20/2008
A fully baked beta release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is now available for testing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2008
The first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 is expected from Microsoft in the next few weeks. By all accounts, those that have seen the private beta report that the features outlined by the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, Scott Guthrie, in a November blog posting are pretty much on track.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/19/2008
Microsoft Corp. to give away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard and other software to college students worldwide.
Microsoft today launched an open source software project on the SourceForge site, aimed at developing conversion tools that will translate Microsoft Office binary files to Office Open XML (OOXML) file formats.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/15/2008
Migration to the Windows Vista operating system apparently isn't generating much enthusiasm among IT personnel in the enterprise.
Microsoft announced the recent promotions of 14 executives, seven to senior vice president positions and seven others to corporate vice president.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/15/2008
Timed with the 2008 Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona this week, Microsoft made announcements pushing its interests further into the consumer and global mobile market.
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
E-mails that have come to light in the ongoing suit against Microsoft regarding its "Vista Capable" and "Vista Ready" labels for PCs show that even prominent executives within the company questioned the plan.
Prof. Powershell shows you how to automate aspects of your IT job.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/13/2008
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Microsoft is facing another suitor for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
In a blog post Tuesday, Scott Guthrie, general manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, laid out the roadmap for its upcoming ASP.NET model view controller (MVC) framework for developing Web applications.
For the February security bulletin release, Microsoft rolled out six "Critical" fixes -- rather than the seven detailed in the advanced notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2008
Microsoft wants Silverlight to be a rich interactive application environment you can bank on -- literally.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2008
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took the wraps off a major new version of Office Live Small Business and launched a new developer program for Office Live.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/12/2008
Once you've got Systems Center Essentials running, what's next? It's time to act on what SCE is telling you is working -- or not working.
- By Greg Shields
- 02/11/2008