Microsoft announced the beta release of System Center Essentials 2010 on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/01/2009
The National Science Foundation has awarded $7 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center to run a supercomputer system for large-scale scientific visualization and data analysis.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/01/2009
Government adoption of Vista has been anemic at best. But the prospects seem much better for Windows 7.
- By Brian Robinson
- 10/01/2009
A trial judge on Tuesday voided a $388 million jury award to Uniloc in its long-running intellectual property dispute with Microsoft.
Eight identity management products from seven vendors have earned interoperability certification for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) in this summer's round of interoperability testing.
- By William Jackson
- 09/30/2009
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote talk at a Microsoft event called "The New Efficiency" on Tuesday.
Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond's free consumer security software for PCs, will be available for download by the general public on Tuesday.
Networking threats are migrating from the network perimeter to the interior and up the networking stack, often making older firewall technologies and policies inadequate.
- By William Jackson
- 09/28/2009
IBM rolled out a free toolkit to help IT pros migrate their infrastructure to IBM products and use Microsoft's virtualization technology to consolidate servers.
Microsoft on Friday announced that Release Candidate 0 of Forefront Unified Access Gateway is now available for testing.
Microsoft released a minor update this week for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that addresses compatibility issues for some applications.
If the latest semiannual round of security advisories from Cisco are any indication, DoS attacks continue to be a serious -- and largely unsolvable -- problem for networks.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/25/2009
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
Lawyers for Microsoft and Toronto-based i4i LP concluded oral arguments before the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Microsoft bolstered its Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) product by acquiring intellectual properties (IP) from three of its partners.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/23/2009
Microsoft last week filed a civil lawsuit against five companies for allegedly spreading malicious online advertising.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/22/2009
Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston on Tuesday.
In a surprise announcement Monday, Dell Inc. said it plans to purchase Perot Systems Corp. for approximately $3.9 billion.
- By David Hubler
- 09/22/2009
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech is looking to shift unemployed technology professionals into teaching careers.
Microsoft is instituting a "say-on-pay" policy that will let its shareholders vote on compensation for Microsoft's senior executives.