Microsoft has a formal new program to lure independent software vendors from Linux and Unix to Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/11/2006
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is slightly modifying its support lifecycle to provide what it calls “more predictability” for customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/10/2006
Apple CEO Steve Jobs debuted the first new iMacs based on Intel CPUs at the company’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday -- two of them available immediately.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/10/2006
Remember that old gasoline ad about putting a “tiger in your tank?” How about Windows in your gas pump?
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/10/2006
Microsoft looks to electronic musician Robert Fripp to create the sounds of the next Windows OS.
From the business wires: a Group Policy security extension, a load testing tool for Web apps, USB flash drives with LCD displays, and Windows Media Player 11.
Microsoft is releasing an out-of-cycle patch Thursday for the Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability that attackers were already exploiting when the flaw was made public in the last week of December. Earlier this week, Microsoft had said it would not release a patch until its regular Patch Tuesday event next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/05/2006
The focus of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is, as you might expect, consumer electronics. But amid the smart watches, television-ready cell phones and movie download services were a few tidbits sure to impact IT in the coming year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/05/2006
Microsoft showed off the newest additions to its growing Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, including an updated line of SPOT-enabled watches and a wireless weather forecasting center with an information link through MSN Direct.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/05/2006
Spending on IT in the United States is set to grow by a modest 5 percent this year, according to new projections released by the technology market research firm IDC on Wednesday. The firm expressed unusual confidence about its numbers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/05/2006
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser slowly but surely lost significant market share to Firefox over the past year, according to the latest monthly traffic report released Wednesday by Web metrics tool vendor Net Applications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2006
At the very end of 2005, Microsoft quietly began shipping the first beta of IronPython, a release of the open source Python scripting language that functions within the .NET common language runtime (CLR).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2006
Symantec is acquiring instant messaging software maker IM Logic.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2006
Intel kicked off the new year by updating its brand image to focus on the company’s emerging strategy of featuring itself as a platform company rather than just a chip giant.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2006
The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2006
Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/03/2006
Security experts at F-Secure reported on Tuesday a zero-day exploit that exposes vulnerabilities in the Windows graphics handling engine to enable malware to take control of PCs running fully patched Windows XP SP2.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/29/2005
If your plans call for taking the new-generation MCP developer and SQL exams in the next few weeks, tell us how you plan to approach them and what steps you'll take to pass them.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/29/2005
Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005