Licensing changes were made late last week to Microsoft's PowerShell to allow ease of access for those using OSes other than Windows.
One slight omission from news on the IE 10 Preview released at MIX 11: It won't run on Vista boxes.
Microsoft has sent word that the beta version of Windows Intue will exprie on Monday, April 18.
The U.S. government announced legal actions against the Coreflood botnet on Wednesday, and is seeking to prosecute those involved.
Along with the 17 security bulletins in the April patch, Microsoft released a tool to help protect older versions of Office, as well as an update to the winload.exe program.
No surprises as Microsoft releases 17 security bulletins patching of 64 vulnerabilities.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/12/2011
StatCounters' usage numbers show that Windows 7 has surpassed XP in the U.S.
Microsoft on Monday annouts that its Dynamics prodlcut line will be available as a cloud-based service, thanks to the Azure Cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/11/2011
Microsoft's advanced security notice previews a large rollout for IE, Windows and some of the tools in the Office suite.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/07/2011
Dell announces two-year initiative to build out datacenters to provide customers with capabilities to create public and private cloud resources.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
The 64-bit Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS 2011) was released today by Microsoft to its professional service subscribers, while Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS 2011 Essentials) was also released for general evaluation.
According to Gartner, worldwide IT organizations will not be able to continue to avoid migration away from Office 2003 and Windows XP.
Two recently released surveys show that datacenter managers say they don't expect a budget increase for the year, while overall IT spending is on the rise.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2011
A new update for Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 allows shared block storage in storage area networks with the use of iSCSI Protocol.
Microsoft announced some Client Access License changes last week at its Microsoft Management Summit.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched its EC2 Dedicated Instances in response to the fact that some enterprise customers don't want to share computing resources across the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/28/2011
Microsoft hasn't officially announced Office 365, but pricing and licensing were topics at a Directions on Microsoft talk.
Beta version of Virtual Machine Manager adds Server App-V, which lets Windows apps not designed for Windows Azure to work on Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/24/2011
Microsoft issued Security Advisory 2524375 yesterday concerning nine fraudulent digital certificates.
Microsoft today released the second beta of its System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM 2012) product.