Microsoft showed off a new user interface for copying files in Windows 8.
Microsoft released two community technology previews of its Hadoop connectors, one that works with SQL Server and other with SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse.
Microsoft this week released community technology previews of a new Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008.
NoSQL oponents see no future for the language. Proponents, though, are building new products around it.
Take the guesswork out of your scripts and find out the common risks via the -Whatif parameter.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/23/2011
The company provides a comprehensive breakdown of the Internet irritant. Plus: Anonymous releases defense information; Famous individuals go to the front of the line with Google+
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/23/2011
Microsoft is working to make its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system work with Universal Serial Bus 3.0 technologies.
A poll originating from Microsoft's support division puts people and processes at the root of most big IT problems.
In earnings call bombshell, Hewlett-Packard said it might sell its PC division.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Microsoft's Windows 8 planning, coding and testing efforts comprise about 35 teams, with each team responsible for a single feature area of the operating system.
Several Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, CRM Online and SkyDrive, have been crippled by major outages today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/17/2011
Let me offer a few suggestions that will make your script writing easier, more productive and less buggy.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/16/2011
Microsoft products, and Windows in particular, no longer appear on Kaspersky's latest top-10 list of vulnerability concerns.
Microsoft wants Business Productivity Online Services customers to plan their move to Office 365 now, even though it'll take some of them at least a year to make the transition.
Microsoft's newest browser topped the list of ones that provides the best protection against socially engineered threats.
This month's Patch Tuesday included a fix for an Internet Explorer exploit found by Steven Fewer. Plus: Anonymous releases personal information of San Francisco public transit users; Facebook, Twitter and Research in Motion discuss possible actions to dissuade rioting in London; AOL attacked by a server-side incursion.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/15/2011
Microsoft released a report updating the progress of the Microsoft Security Response Center in ensuring software security.
According to a recent Gartner projection, Windows 7 will be on 42 percent of all PCs at the beginning of 2012.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/10/2011
Deploying scripts with parameters? Be sure to validate input. Here are a few validation tests worth considering.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/09/2011
The August patch cycle's 13 fixes target 22 flaws in various Microsoft technologies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2011