The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry, according to a survey released this week by Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 12, 2008
Developers got an indication of Microsoft's unfolding cloud platform strategy at this week's VSLive! conference in New York. Several conference sessions outlined the company's plans for Software plus Services and platforms-as-a-service, which offer hosted development and runtimes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- September 10, 2008
Microsoft on Monday issued its first service update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, a hosted sales database and collaboration solution unveiled in April.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 09, 2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- August 28, 2008
A variety of technical flaws in an upgrade of the system that supports the government's terrorist watch list has drawn congressional fire and raised concerns that the entire system might be in jeopardy.
- By Wyatt Kash
- August 27, 2008
Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2008
Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing on August 6.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 20, 2008
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 14, 2008
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 13, 2008
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- August 11, 2008
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services
- By Joab Jackson
- August 06, 2008
Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 28, 2008
You've already snapped up Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards and gaming consoles. Is a Microsoft data warehouse (DW) appliance in your future?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 28, 2008
Five seconds into reading this story, a Web page somewhere will become infected with malware or some other malicious code.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 23, 2008
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
- July 22, 2008