Microsoft today previewed the ability to centrally manage applications and resources in the planned upgrade of SQL Server, code-named "Kilimanjaro."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/19/2008
Microsoft held its Shareholder meeting for 2008 on Wednesday, and shareholders approved all nine board-member nominees on the proxy slate.
Jerry Yang is transitioning out as Yahoo's CEO, but he will continue on as a member of the board, according to an announcement issued late on Monday by the online search and advertising company.
A team of security researchers this week demonstrated an attack confirming that the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol can be compromised.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/18/2008
Three companies are seeking indemnification from Microsoft after being sued for using technology associated with Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform.
Court documents may contain a "smoking gun" reference to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's participation in a crucial decision to downgrade capabilities needed to gain Windows Vista Capable certification in new PCs.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/17/2008
Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/14/2008
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008
More details about planned features in VS 2010 are coming to light as Microsoft slashes pricing on different versions of VS 2008 by as much as 30 percent.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/10/2008
VMware today announced a new market direction involving the mobile telecom market: VMware will target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a rousing endorsement of cloud development in Australia today at a Live Web Rally event entitled Liberation Day.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/06/2008
Adobe Systems on Wednesday said it has released a patch to stave off stack buffer overflow exploits in its free and widely used Adobe Reader software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/05/2008
Microsoft is leading the move to claims-based access with an announcement this week of a claims-aware application codenamed "Geneva" Framework.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/05/2008
Despite issuing a preemptive patch two weeks ago and another warning late last week, Redmond is now investigating a bug exploiting Windows Server Service for Windows 2000 that reportedly originated in China.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2008
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
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
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.
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.
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008