Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo are back on the table again, but maybe not about the acquisition bid.
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2008
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
Cross-platform developers can now download the source code for Moonlight, the open source project chartered with building a Silverlight runtime for Linux.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/19/2008
Security software vendor PC Tools on Friday fired the latest salvo in the argument over whether Windows Vista is as secure as Microsoft says it is.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/16/2008
Microsoft warned developers on Thursday that if they're getting an error when installing the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta released Monday, they need to uninstall the hotfix KB944899 that came with the earlier version of the release.
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets along with Linux.
Evans Data research indicates only eight percent of developers in North America are writing applications for Vista, even though the OS has been live for 15 months.
Concerns over SQL Server 2008’s third-quarter release date stoked by SQL Server 2005 SP3 release.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/15/2008
SQL injection attacks stir up concerns over weaknesses in databases and
coding practices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/15/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday released Service Pack 1 for Office 2008 for Mac, the first major update to what the company called its most successful Mac Office launch in 19 years (in terms of sales volume).
A former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle that can happen on computers with AMD processors
Developers critique Microsoft's Software plus Services release.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2008
Codemesh bridges the Java-to-.NET gap at Deutsche Post.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2008
Telerik launches updated version of RadControls, which supports Office SharePoint Server and DotNetNuke, among other platforms.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/15/2008
BMC Software plans to release its Application Problem Resolution System 7.0 for monitoring application code.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/15/2008
Fortify Software’s new software suite brings information security into the development process.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/15/2008
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates spent a lot of time today talking about "empowering the workers" at the Microsoft's 12th annual CEO Summit 2008 in Redmond, Wash., where he gave a keynote speech.
Microsoft and some independent security researchers had the blogosphere buzzing Wednesday over a series of denunciations after one company claimed that Vista was more vulnerable to malware and other exploits than previous operating systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/14/2008
The Wall Street Journal reported today that investor Carl Icahn purchased about 50 million shares of Yahoo (3.5 percent of total shares) following Microsoft's failed acquisition bid for the company, citing an unnamed source.