Windows XP service pack 3 will have its release-to-manufacturing debut in April of this year, according to the Tech ARP Web site.
Microsoft last week made available its set of IT deployment tools and practices called Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008.
Microsoft confirmed "very limited, targeted" attacks on an open Word security flaw. The company is researching a patch.
Like much of the rest of the city, New Orleans' information technology department was nearly crippled by Hurricane Katrina. But as the city continues to put itself back together, the IT department has been able to rebuild -- and even improve some operations. The automation of its business processes has been among the improvements.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/24/2008
A calculation-error bug in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, which was acknowledged by Microsoft last Friday, has been resolved with a security update.
Microsoft is on a buying spree, and its latest acquisition is rootkit security vendor Komoku.
Adobe this week began shipping Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, a $40,000 (per CPU) system designed to integrate with Adobe Media Player and Adobe AIR software to "safeguard video content created for Adobe Flash technology against misuse."
Microsoft blogger lists 12 exams for SQL Server 2000 and Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 that will retire soon after support for those products ends.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/20/2008
Microsoft presented its latest customer relationship management (CRM) product, Dynamics CRM 4.0, this week.
Citrix has become the latest entry into the increasingly-crowded field of embedded hypervisors.
Microsoft, famous for its product delays, has taken a different approach with its latest virtualization offering: instead of multiple delays, it's pushing up delivery deadlines.
Microsoft has added another nickel to its open source credibility bank this morning with the announcement of its first collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/19/2008
On Tuesday, Yahoo filed a three-year plan with the SEC in an effort to convince investors that the company can offer shareholders value without merging with Microsoft -- or, at the very least, that Microsoft should significantly raise its bid for the company.
Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. The company has also posted the upgrade to its download site.
Microsoft and Aspect Software Inc. today initiated a global strategic alliance focused on better enhancing communications between contact centers and the broader enterprise.
For Microsoft and Intel, the computing universe is going parallel.
A report commissioned by Hewlett-Packard Company earlier this year suggests that a major issue for a third of the CIOs surveyed is unwieldy growth of datacenters in the next two to five years, particularly as the number of business services and applications that are deployed through them continues to head skyward.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/18/2008
Microsoft admitted on Friday that a patch it released last week is causing Excel 2003 to make some incorrect calculations.
The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard for business documents.
- By William Jackson
- 03/17/2008
Microsoft licensed two of Adobe's software products for use with smartphones that run Microsoft Windows Mobile operating systems, according to an announcement issued by Adobe today.