Redmond's security team is undergoing a revamp with the announcement that Andrew Cushman, director of Microsoft's Security Response Center, will be stepping down to be replaced by group manager Mike Reavey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/23/2009
Microsoft announced lower than expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter said that it will eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/22/2009
Microsoft's disappointing second-quarter earnings showed just how dependent the software giant is on new PC sales.
Microsoft announced today the release of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) 1.0, a free downloadable tool designed to help install the Microsoft Web Platform or its components.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/21/2009
A survey of more than 300 open source software (OSS) developers found that many plan to distribute their solutions as services over the Internet cloud.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/20/2009
A new report from security consultancy AppRiver confirms what many of us have long expected: Spammers are becoming both savvier and sneakier.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/20/2009
The team developing Moonlight, a multimedia application for Linux- and UNIX-based machines, scrambled to enable live streaming media play for the Barak Obama Presidential Inauguration that was broadcast on Tuesday
How do you find a bug in a program when that program is spread across 200,000 processors?
- By Joab Jackson
- 01/16/2009
Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/16/2009
The European Commission (EC) issued a "Statement of Objections" against Microsoft's practice of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
Netezza last week appeared to close the loop on one of its perceived competitive shortcomings when it unveiled a new interoperability strategy for Microsoft's business intelligence platform
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/16/2009
Microsoft announced a client update to the beta version of Live Mesh on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/16/2009
There's nothing like a government mandate to speed up the adoption of a standard. The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a case in point.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/15/2009
Pink slips at the world's largest software provider may become a reality soon, according to several reports published this week, citing unnamed sources.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/15/2009
Users of Windows Server service that haven't patched a previously disclosed worm hole (MS08-067) are taking a big risk.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/14/2009
Datacenter managers in both the public and private sectors report being caught between increasing demands for performance and shrinking budgets, according to a Symantec study.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 01/14/2009
As expected, it's a one-patch Tuesday, with a single item deemed "critical" in Microsoft's first security update for the year.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/13/2009
When the going gets tough, it's the jobs that get going -- increasingly overseas.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/13/2009
Microsoft is the key investor in the latest round of funding to N-trig, a supplier of digitizers and software that enable touch-based computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/12/2009
Microsoft extended the general availability of its free Windows 7 Beta trial offer through Jan. 24 and removed the cap on the number of downloads within that time.