Yahoo's CEO at a tech conference admits to second-guessing the Microsoft offer and offers his assessment of the Google deal gone bad.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/07/2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.
IT pros can expect one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent memory this month as Redmond indicated there would only be two patches -- one critical, one important.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/06/2008
Lesson in Logic #2: The WHILE statement keeps things rolling in your PowerShell scripts.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/05/2008
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/04/2008
The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
- By William Jackson
- 11/03/2008
Behind the new /admin switch in Vista and Windows Server 2008
- By Zubair Alexander
- 11/03/2008
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will offer a new software development platform for cloud computing added new energy to the debate over how and when organizations might begin turning to the technology.
To recognize the dynasties in our annual Readers' Choice competition, <i>Redmond</i> is introducing the "Triple Crown," a new award for products that have won (at least) three Readers' Choice honors in a row.
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
Microsoft is providing three free vouchers toward any MCP exam for first 3,000 test takers as an incentive to take this pilot exam.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/30/2008
Lesson 1: Using an IF construct in a PowerShell script.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
An IDC study found that nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations don't have solutions in place to prevent data leakage over e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
Microsoft may have reaffirmed its commitment to cloud computing with the launch of its Windows Azure operating system, but overall business adoption of the cloud concept may be stymied, in part, by security issues.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/28/2008
Microsoft demonstrated Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- By Michael Desmond and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/28/2008
Reader wants to speed up Internet behind and in front of the firewall.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 10/27/2008