Windows XP Mode, a feature designed to help small businesses migrate to Windows 7, will be available as a beta for download on April 30.
Service Pack 2 for the Microsoft Office 2007 product family is available for download at Microsoft Update.
Microsoft released its BizTalk Server 2009 enterprise application integration platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2009
Microsoft provided a couple of Windows 7 tidbits on Friday, confirming the availability of Windows 7 release candidate (RC) and describing a forthcoming virtualization capability in the new operating system.
Microsoft last week described improved security features in its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, currently in beta release.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/27/2009
Writing more secure software is not a simple task, but it can and should be done for applications, experts say.
- By William Jackson
- 04/24/2009
The release candidate version of the Windows 7 operating system has apparently hit the streets in the form of various leaked peer-to-peer BitTorrent distributions.
At a time when everyone is watching the bottom line, there is an increasingly strong impetus to virtualize IT environments.
- By William Jackson
- 04/23/2009
IBM this week announced a new version of its flagship DB2 database with software that will provide compatibility with applications built for Oracle databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/23/2009
Researchers from Finjan Software Inc. announced at the RSA Security conference the discovery of a new botnet on nearly 2 million infected computers -- many of them in U.S. government networks.
- By William Jackson
- 04/23/2009
Microsoft announced its fiscal third-quarter results for 2009, which showed an overall six percent decrease in revenue compared with last year's Q3 result.
A day after Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, MySQL, one of Sun's own recent acquisitions, unveiled the next version of its popular open source database.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/22/2009
Microsoft has yet to reveal its Windows 7 upselling strategy with netbooks, but Redmond's profit margins already appear to be diminished with Windows XP.
Microsoft has been looking to fill jobs associated with Windows 8, its next operating system beyond the current Windows 7 beta.
There are a wealth of commercial tools available to help secure networks, but getting them to share information so that administrators have more than a piecemeal picture of their systems can be a challenge.
- By William Jackson
- 04/22/2009
Virtualization leader VMware sees a cloudy future for the datacenter. To that end, today the company announced vSphere 4, the next generation of what was formerly called VMware Infrastructure.
As cyber security problems become more widespread, Microsoft urged the IT community to take a more active role, and described its security approach.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/21/2009
Oracle's agreement to acquire Sun will reshape the landscape of tools and platforms for Java and database developers, but it also means a change in emphasis -- or even the demise -- of some key tools, development platforms and databases.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/21/2009
Web browsers offered soft and interesting targets for hackers in 2008, who took advantage of them to attack the increasingly rich Web experience, said security expert Jeremiah Grossman.
- By William Jackson
- 04/21/2009
Terracotta Inc. last week released a higher throughput version of its open source in-memory database caching platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/21/2009