Microsoft today released the beta of its Silverlight 3 rich interactive media runtime and development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/18/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of its latest e-commerce server, which integrates with SharePoint services.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/18/2009
A recent report on Web security trends relayed a damning assessment of the IT security landscape that's prompting some to suggest the government should step in to give enterprises and individuals guidance on how to protect themselves.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/18/2009
Reports on Wednesday that IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems drew mixed views as to what Big Blue would gain from absorbing the struggling supplier of servers, open source software and Java.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/18/2009
On Thursday, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8.
A newly released maturity model could be the first to shed new light on how enterprises are implementing security initiatives in their internal software development efforts.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/17/2009
Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the white-hot world of virtualization.
Hackers are increasingly attempting to influence search engines to misdirect users to spurious Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/16/2009
More user interface tweaks and bug fixes are being carried out by the Windows 7 engineering team in preparation for the release candidate version of the OS.
Amazon Web Services has added a new option for its EC2 hosted cloud service that allows customers to sign long-term commitments in exchange for substantial discounts over its existing offering.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/12/2009
nCircle's Tyler Reguly discovered a vulnerability that renders the Microsoft's DNS patch virtually useless if a server has already been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/12/2009
Windows 7 will feature superior application compatibility over Windows Vista, according to a Microsoft announcement issued on Monday.
In a bid to entice application providers to build and distribute their wares on the recently announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft today revealed plans to offer tooling and guidance on its developer portal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/11/2009
Adobe Systems Inc. had its own Patch Tuesday yesterday when it issued a critical security fix for an Adobe Reader 9 bug that first got broad attention in late February.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/11/2009
Following months of criticism that its cloud-based SQL Data Services lacked the horsepower for enterprise-grade applications, Microsoft today said it is scrapping the effort and moving to a pure relational model instead.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/10/2009
Microsoft is rolling out three security fixes today in its March patch release, with one item described as "critical" and two items labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/10/2009
Two leading suppliers of complex event processing (CEP) platforms, Aleri and Coral8, have combined, the two companies announced today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/09/2009
Mike Nash, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows product management, talks about the status of IE 8 RC1.
- By Doug Barney and Kurt Mackie
- 03/09/2009
Microsoft will expand the list of "features" that can be disabled when the Windows 7 Release Candidate becomes available, including the ability to turn off IE 8.
As Microsoft prepares to reveal its plans for a more robust offering of its emerging SQL Data Services, an obscure two-person company last week launched its own cloud-based relational database service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/05/2009