Microsoft will discontinue its PerformancePoint business intelligence product and will merge its function into SharePoint Server, the company said late last week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/26/2009
MSRC gets new leader, while old leader moves up; IE8 stems clickjacking; Conficker continues to confound; payment cards -- now, more vulnerable.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/26/2009
With the release candidate of IE 8 now available, Microsoft GM Dean Hachamovitch talks about switching to standards compliance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Kurt Mackie
- 01/26/2009
Redmond's security team is undergoing a revamp with the announcement that Andrew Cushman, director of Microsoft's Security Response Center, will be stepping down to be replaced by group manager Mike Reavey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/23/2009
Despite grim stats announced on Thursday by Microsoft in its fiscal second-quarter report, at least one company in the software IT sector reported positive 2008 quarterly earnings.
- By Jim Barthold
- 01/23/2009
Microsoft is still trying to control the Conficker worm, both the bug itself and news about how it's handling it.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/23/2009
Citrix Systems has teamed with Intel Corp. to provide virtualization technology for Intel-based desktop computers.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 01/23/2009
Microsoft's disappointing second-quarter earnings showed just how dependent the software giant is on new PC sales.
Microsoft announced lower than expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter said that it will eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/22/2009
IBM on Monday rolled out social networking and collaboration services for businesses called "LotusLive," which integrates with IBM's venerable Lotus Notes e-mail and calendar application.
- By Jim Barthold
- 01/22/2009
A malicious keystroke logging exploit hit Heartland Payment Systems in what many are already calling the biggest data theft ever, with nearly 100 million records siphoned from the large payment-processing company.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/21/2009
Tools for migrating old computer accounts, settings, files to a new Vista computer.
A survey of more than 300 open source software (OSS) developers found that many plan to distribute their solutions as services over the Internet cloud.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/20/2009
A new report from security consultancy AppRiver confirms what many of us have long expected: Spammers are becoming both savvier and sneakier.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/20/2009
Homework Assignment #1: Creating a formatted report of a selected scoped of peak paged memory.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/20/2009
The team developing Moonlight, a multimedia application for Linux- and UNIX-based machines, scrambled to enable live streaming media play for the Barak Obama Presidential Inauguration that was broadcast on Tuesday
Need proof that times are tough? Just ask Nortel Networks which last week, following a half-decade of tumult, announced that it was seeking creditor protection in Canada.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/20/2009
Microsoft is reorganizing two of its online teams -- Live Mesh and Live Services -- by centralizing them under a Windows segment, according to reports from Mary-Jo Foley and Todd Bishop published on Friday.
Gartner's fourth-quarter 2008 report on the PC market, announced last week, reported shrinking global and U.S. sales for the top computer makers.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/19/2009
Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/16/2009