The beta trial for Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 1.0 is now closed after 75,000 testers downloaded it following Tuesday's debut.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/24/2009
Microsoft has extended service-pack support for its Dynamics products from 12 months to 24 months, the company announced on Tuesday.
The downturn in the economy is affecting the role and spending strategies of IT organizations, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by Microsoft.
Plus: DirectShow bug not fixed yet; MasterCard makes PCI auditing even more difficult; accidently hacking Twitter via shortened URLs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/23/2009
Microsoft last week rolled out a beta of its new planning tool, which is designed to help its partners and customers migrate to products within the Microsoft stack.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/23/2009
Microsoft last week released a public beta of Configuration Manager Service Pack 2.
Microsoft on Tuesday will roll out a public test version of its free consumer security application, which was previously known by its code name, "Morro."
Microsoft found a problem with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a new data synchronization plug-in launched by Google last week.
Plus: Microsoft's "Morro"; U.S. Senator ticked at cyber coordinator role.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/16/2009
A report shows many organizations have limited or no knowledge of the systems to which their active and terminated employees actually have access.
Microsoft is releasing new betas of Forefront enterprise security products, according to announcements issued this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/11/2009
A setting in Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista can help stave off a particular remote code execution attack, according to Microsoft's security team.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2009
Google just made it easier for IT organizations to ditch Microsoft Exchange Server.
It only took six months for Microsoft to break its own record for addressing the most vulnerabilities in a single patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/09/2009
Have a blast stringing along functions and reusing them.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/02/2009
Microsoft executive Tami Reller fielded questions about the company's Windows business segment on Thursday in New York City.
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
Microsoft published Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Monday for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
A recent study from IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology suggests that CIOs plan to invest in new IT initiatives over the next year, in spite of a bad (and possibly worsening) economic climate.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/27/2009
You may be familiar with Out-File for saving output to a file. Now, try something different and use Set-Content.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/26/2009