Microsoft on late Wednesday announced a reorganization of its Platforms & Services Division (PSD), as well as the departure of Kevin Johnson, a 16-year Microsoft veteran and president of the PSD.
Five seconds into reading this story, a Web page somewhere will become infected with malware or some other malicious code.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/23/2008
A KACE-sponsored survey on Windows Vista adoption represents more bad news for Microsoft's flagship operating system, even as Microsoft prepares to pour an estimated $300 million into a new Vista marketing campaign -- news that was announced at Microsoft's 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference.
The open source software community lags behind the commercial software sector in secure code development, according to a recent study of some commonly used open source packages.
- By William Jackson
- 07/22/2008
A first-quarter 2008 survey conducted by Computer Economics suggests a possible slowdown in IT spending and staffing lies ahead.
VMware has launched its first counter-attack to Microsoft's pricing structure for its virtualization products, announcing that ESXi, its lightweight hypervisor, is going to be given away for free.
The blogosphere is awash with talk about the possible overall weakness of the Domain Name System (DNS) architecture.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/22/2008
Speculation continues as to what the ultimate systemic Domain Name System (DNS) flaw could be.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/22/2008
Enterprise security is an expensive proposition, one that's likely to get even more expensive as organizations take further steps to protect themselves.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/21/2008
Yahoo partly acceded to the demands of corporate raider Carl Icahn by agreeing to seat Icahn and two of his proxy-slate candidates to Yahoo's board.
Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter and 2008 year-end financial results were announced in a Webcast on Thursday.
Microsoft quietly opened its Live Mesh preview to more testers on July 15, but by today (July 17), the offer had been narrowed to just waiting-list only.
A scan of Web servers by Internet security company Finjan Inc. has found more than 1,000 legitimate Web sites that had been compromised by a new wave of attacks in recent weeks.
- By William Jackson
- 07/16/2008
Microsoft's Chief Architect Ray Ozzie and some say the sky will be the limit for cloud computing in the enterprise, but there's still a need for IT security too.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/16/2008
New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
Oracle has released the latest quarterly round of critical patches for all its products.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/16/2008
In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
CIOs, enterprise architects praise Microsoft's SharePoint Server at Burton Group's Catalyst Conference North America 2008.
Sentrigo Inc. released its new Hedgehog vPatch database security software product on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/15/2008
CollabNet releases Subversion 1.5, an updated version of its open source software-configuration management tool.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/15/2008