A pair of researchers are claiming to have sussed out how to circumnavigate the security protections in Intel's vPro remote management technology.
- By Joab Jackson
- January 07, 2009
A memo purportedly from Microsoft to its OEM partners suggests that Microsoft will offer upgrades from Windows Vista to Windows 7, starting possibly on July 1, 2009.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2009
Bob Muglia, a Microsoft veteran of 21 years, has been named to the newly created position of president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 06, 2009
Microsoft has issued a patent application, published on Dec. 25, that specifies the metered use of computers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 06, 2009
The upcoming Windows 7 beta -- scheduled to be released this month -- found its way onto the Internet over the holidays.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 05, 2009
The developers behind Linux have released the latest version of the open source operating system kernel.
- By Joab Jackson
- January 05, 2009
Bloggers and analysts on Monday poured cold water on rumors that Microsoft plans to lay off a substantial number of its employees.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 05, 2009
Sun Microsystems recently released the latest version of its desktop virtualization software, xVM VirtualBox.
- By John K. Waters
- January 04, 2009
European security researchers have demonstrated a weakness in a hash algorithm widely used for creating digital certificates to secure Web sites and sign e-mails.
- By Joab Jackson
- January 04, 2009
Partners will handle billing in a new business-continuity solution.
- By Anne Stuart
- January 01, 2009
In a change with implications for the channel, Enrique Salem will replace John Thompson as CEO in April.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2009
A top Microsoft official says the company expects to release a beta version of its next operating system this month-with a launch to follow in early 2010.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 01, 2009
Despite progress by Microsoft, the economy could put projects lacking quick ROI at risk.
- By John K. Waters
- December 23, 2008
Redmond continues to investigate a new zero-day bug affecting popular database application SQL Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 23, 2008
MySQL 5.1 was released by Sun Microsystems in April, but I decided to test it out this month.
- By Will Kraft
- December 19, 2008
The public release of Windows 7 Beta 1 is expected next month, but speculation that it might appear earlier popped up on Friday from a few sources.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 19, 2008
While developers feel blindsided by Microsoft's shift to Entity Framework, company officials defend move and say LINQ to SQL is not on death row.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 18, 2008
How do you know that your antivirus (AV) program is working?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 18, 2008
As expected, Microsoft released its second out-of-cycle patch in three months -- this time to plug a widely discussed and "critical" vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 17, 2008
Microsoft released a beta version of its Code Analysis Tool and Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library for developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 16, 2008