What does the "plus" mean in Microsoft's Software Plus Services? A keynote talk by John DeVadoss, director of architecture strategy at Microsoft, provided an explanation. He spoke on the topic, "Software Plus Services: Towards a Model of Differentiated IT" at the Enterprise Architect Summit 2007 event held this week.
Starting today, you can buy Dell computers with Linux as the operating system. Dell is offering the open source OS on two desktop models and one laptop model.
Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Americans are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study finds.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/24/2007
Microsoft tends to tout the release of a new operating system as an earth-shattering event, certain to change computing as we know it.
Dell Inc. plans to sell personal computers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, in a departure from Dell's approach of selling machines only directly to customers.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/24/2007
Microsoft provided a few more details about this week's MOICE offering, which was the subject of a previous security advisory.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/23/2007
Microsoft Corp. last night released a new security advisory, the second this week. The good news is that it doesn't actually deal with a known exploit, worm, or virus. In other words, it doesn't technically deal with security at all.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/23/2007
The House passed legislation Tuesday to combat the criminal use of Internet spyware and scams aimed at stealing personal information from computer users.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/23/2007
"The List" is nearly 500 names long, and growing rapidly. It might have started out as a light-hearted jab, but it has quickly become a flashpoint of the building fury in the open source software community toward Microsoft and its recent claim of patent infringements.
Microsoft, Juniper work to integrate Network Access Protection and Unified Access Control
Microsoft Corp.released a new security advisory. The good news is that it doesn't actually deal with a known exploit, worm, or virus. In other words, it doesn't technically deal with security at all.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/22/2007
Yesterday, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE), a feature it hopes will help put the kibosh on an increasingly common exploit vector –- the innocent-looking Office document with a malicious payload.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/22/2007
T-Mobile USA on Tuesday will launch the first cell phone in the U.S. to come with Microsoft's latest version of Windows Mobile, with improved handling of e-mail and tougher security.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/22/2007
According to security professionals, it's possible for users of Microsoft's new RDP 6.0 client to bypass server-side security settings and successfully establish connections—even when their sessions haven't been authenticated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/21/2007
IBM Corp. said Monday that its new Power6 microprocessor will go on sale next month, boasting twice the clock speed of the previous generation while consuming roughly the same amount of power.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/21/2007
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer witnessed the signing of an agreement Monday requiring all of Vietnam's government offices to use licensed computer software in a step to curb rampant piracy.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/21/2007
Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a double-barreled attack on Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/21/2007
Microsoft has revealed one way it hopes to foster rapid adoption of Silverlight, its new technology for building rich Internet applications.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/21/2007
Microsoft, in its latest foray into the love/hate relationship with the open-source community, is extending the interoperability between a number of its products and the Chinese open document format.
After missing out on DoubleClick and other high-profile companies, Microsoft finally got its foot in the Internet advertising door by buying aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion in cash.