One report suggests that IE could account for less than half of all browsers in use by enterprises within the next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2008
Google's Chrome Web browser -- complete with quirky marketing comic book -- made a splash when announced on Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Microsoft, following its earlier announcement about new virtualization products and imminent releases, has filled in some details that give more shape to its vision.
Japan, the United States and China topped the list of countries from which Internet attack traffic originates in a recent report by Akamai Technologies Inc. The three countries accounted for more than 60 percent of attack-oriented Internet traffic.
- By Dan Campbell
- 09/10/2008
If executive turnover in the online advertising world were a soap opera, it might be called, "The Young and the Restless."
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/11/2008
Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/10/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released late last month, so I gave it a test run.
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft's proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google's browser as well.
Alistair Croll, a principal analyst for consulting coalition BitCurrent, argues that moving to Internet-based Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, "won't eliminate work [but will] just change the work," for IT administrators.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/18/2008
An industry specification for content management interoperability services has been floated by three players in the enterprise content management (ECM) space.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/15/2008
Redmond continued to rebuff assertions that a "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8, currently at Beta 2 release, invades user privacy.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/15/2008
Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/16/2008
Microsoft won't say when the first public beta release of its Windows 7 operating system will occur, but some possible dates have been anonymously leaked.
It's unclear how a Virginia Supreme Court ruling may influence other state and federal laws, but the court on Friday struck down a Virginia law that prohibits the sending of unsolicited e-mail.
- By Jim Barthold
- 09/17/2008
McAfee Inc. has agreed to purchase Secure Computing Corp. for about $465 million.
- By David Hubler
- 09/22/2008
One thing you won't find underlying a cloud computing initiative is a relational database. And this is no accident: Relational databases are ill-suited for use within cloud computing environments.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/22/2008
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/19/2008
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
The Payment Card Industry Council on Wednesday released an updated version of its PCI data security standard, which is designed to help protect transmitted charge and debit card information.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/01/2008