Research firm Gartner is predicting that the current economic downturn in the U.S. will mean more IT and development positions will go overseas.
Offering includes diskless servers, Ethernet switches and a SAN-all in one box.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 04/29/2008
Betas debuted at this week's Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
According to market watcher Infonetics Research, both Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are tops, overall, in the UC space. In fact, buyers say that Cisco and Microsoft are their preferred Unified Messaging and Communicator suppliers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
Mr. Gates Goes to Washington
New survey of resellers finds them struggling with poor leads, misaligned vendor marketing and continuing conflict with direct sales teams.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/29/2008
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/29/2008
The Response Point phone system takes center stage at Microsoft's annual online-only event for entrepreneurs.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- 04/29/2008
Microsoft's annual event for Dynamics partners and customers indicates that, after an awkward adolescence, its business-products line has grown up.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- 04/29/2008
Advanced developers who want to tell their computer what to do (literally), rather than punch keys or click on icon, may want to check out a "pre-beta" technical preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros for Vista.
Whoever becomes our next president will inherit a cyber infrastructure under almost constant attack and at greater risk than eight years ago, and a handful of experts and legislators have come together to ensure that cybersecurity has a high priority in his or her administration.
- By William Jackson
- 04/29/2008
According to a recent study from security and anti-virus specialist Sophos, servers in the U.S. and China host the lion's share of malware-infected Web sites. Meanwhile, Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of this year, according to Sophos -- with no sign of dropping off any time soon.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
Last week, Microsoft's .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET -- Managed Extensibility Framework -- designed to improve compatibility with third-party extensions.
IT execs are focusing on cutting costs rather than investing in technology this quarter, according to a report by research analysts at IDC.
Live Mesh sounds like "HailStorm" in concept -- a way to access your data from any device with an Internet connection -- says Microsoft's Rosoff.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/25/2008
Windows XP, which will no longer be sold after June 30, will not get a reprieve despite Ballmer's quip at a press conference about relenting to customer feedback.
Microsoft had flat revenue results as reflected in its third-quarter 2008 report.
Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft's Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo underway this week: Think open platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/24/2008
New attack vectors and methods for hacker intrusion, it seems, are popping up every few months.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/23/2008
Spurned suitor Microsoft, which has been trying to acquire Yahoo since the end of January, adopted a new tactic today.