In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions.
About a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey released by Gartner this month.
The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained.
Microsoft's latest tally of MCPs shows MCTS: Vista-Configuration to be one of the hotter certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/10/2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/10/2008
Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/10/2008
Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, initiated at the end of January, today unleashed media reports suggesting that shifting coalitions are forming that could decide Yahoo's fate.
Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference 2008, his company's namesake information security conference, yesterday (April 8) in San Francisco with a warning.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/09/2008
Yahoo issued an announcement today that it plans to conduct a limited test of Google's ad search solution.
Microsoft's automated security suite for home users and small businesses is available for testing from the Microsoft Connect Web site.
Microsoft today released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 at the RoboBusiness conference in Pittsburgh.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/09/2008
Microsoft rolled out five "critical" and three "important" patches for Windows Server 2008, Vista, Office, IE and other software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/08/2008
Microsoft today released information on protocols used in some of its software products.
Microsoft's released a public beta version of an integrated security solution, code-named "Stirling."
If the traditional notion of infrastructure-based perimeter security is not yet dead, it's not for lack of effort by keynote speakers at this week's RSA Security conference.
- By William Jackson
- 04/08/2008
Microsoft reported today that it has fixed a problem that caused some users upgrading to Vista Service Pack 1 to enter "an endless reboot cycle."
Yahoo's board of directors got a letter from Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer over the weekend about Yahoo's slow response to Microsoft's proposed takeover bid.
Nearly a year and a half after striking their improbable alliance to provide better interoperability between open source and Windows-based platforms, Microsoft and Novell told developers this week that the pact has yielded technical benefits but there's still work to be completed, particularly on the interoperability between the two companies' enterprise directory platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2008
Microsoft yesterday provided new details about the life of its popular Windows XP operating system.
When it comes to infrastructure and operations, research firm Gartner says that virtualization will be the most significant trend through the next four years.