Microsoft mostly beat financial analyst expectations in its fiscal second quarter, reporting overall earnings of $19.9 billion.
Future ARM-based servers could reduce power costs in the datacenter, helping cloud service providers such as Microsoft.
IE still vulnerable, but hackers are heat-seeking on other browser targets. Plus: Browser makers making "no tracking" a feature priority; Wordpress plug-in threatened by SQL injection attack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/24/2011
Scammers have set their sights on tablets and smartphones, and away from Windows desktops, in response to rising consumer demand for mobile devices.
Brad Brooks, a Microsoft executive who helped promote Windows 7 to consumers, has signed up for a new marketing role at Juniper Networks.
Company adds new tools to SDL for developers. Plus: Windows Live Messenger update is mandatory; researchers says third-party vulnerabilities, attacks to outpace Windows attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/18/2011
Customize graphical elements of the user's desktop via the Shell.Application COM object. Yes, it can be done through PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/18/2011
Analysts are thinking out loud in the wake of Microsoft's Windows ARM announcement last week.
Microsoft today announced its release plans for its forthcoming Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 shared computing product.
As expected, Microsoft today released two security bulletins in its January security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/11/2011
The Select-Object cmdlet lets you get what you always want, at least as parameters are concerned.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/11/2011
Security experts have yet to get the edge on hackers. Plus: Unpatched IE bugs likely to be fixed post-Patch Tuesday; smartphones all the rage -- with hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/11/2011
Windows Embedded Standard 7 made the scene at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
Microsoft plans to start the year with a light count of just two security bulletins in its January patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/06/2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night with lots of positive stats, along with a few gizmos.