Saying both he personally and his company were entering a new era, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he will take a much more active role in championing innovation within the company as chairman Bill Gates gradually backs away from his role as chairman over the next two years.
- By Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
- 07/27/2006
In a move meant to strengthen its enterprise security message, Microsoft said this week it has completed the acquisition of a leading secure access software firm.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/26/2006
Microsoft will host a crowd of financial analysts on campus Thursday for its annual financial analyst meeting.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/26/2006
Here’s how to allow VM save state operations time to complete when a Virtual Server host is shut down.
Microsoft announced it has begun shipping Beta 1 of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 edition. However, the beta is billed as "private."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/25/2006
You've got SAN and NAS on the mind. What about unstructured data? And even more so, ways to store unstructured data? Enter, the CAS.
- By Bill Heldman
- 07/20/2006
Microsoft has completed its purchase of application virtualization vendor Softricity, the company said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/20/2006
Microsoft announced this week it will cooperate with a leading Linux open source developer to provide interoperability between Windows Longhorn Server and Xen virtualization technology for Linux.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2006
While the next Windows Server will be huge, a core version of it will be excitingly stripped-down and efficient.
Microsoft announced this week it has acquired Winternals Software LP, a well-known vendor of enterprise systems recovery and data protection solutions for Windows, along with the company's associated freeware site Sysinternals.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/18/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have formed a four-year alliance to develop and sell products that aim to give people more sophisticated
ways to communicate with each other.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/18/2006
Don't reinstall Windows XP/2003 when you've got a corrupted TCP/IP stack. Use NetShell to get you out of a jam quickly.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 07/17/2006
Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/17/2006
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are beginning a limited test of plans to make their instant messaging systems work together.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/13/2006
Microsoft on Wednesday at its Velocity 2006 partner conference in Boston debuted a desktop virtualization licensing plan for Windows Vista Enterprise in hopes of generating more interest in its Software Assurance program.