Microsoft said it expects to have Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, its virtual collaboration and conferencing software, released to manufacturing later next month, with availability some time this fall. The company made the announcement at the Tech Ed Conference taking place this week in Orlando, Florida.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft's subscription-based desktop management program is adding another branch to its tree, in the form of error monitoring to help with crashes.
- By Keith Ward
- June 05, 2007
Microsoft has added another "core" product, one that will make Web hosting companies and Web farm administrators happy: Internet Information Services 7.0 is now available as a server core installation on Windows Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- June 04, 2007
From the White House to town hall, government is big business. Here's a guide to the top IT opportunities and how to get in on them.
- By Rich Freeman
- June 01, 2007
Creating user interfaces for ERP systems just got a little more complicated for developers.
- By Joshua Greenbaum
- June 01, 2007
A sneak peek at the upcoming Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, the channel's biggest networking opportunity of the year.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2007
IT admins are justifiably excited by the idea of a "server core" in Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn Server. The technology, which strips out extraneous functionality to allow just the services needed to run a server in a specific role, promises easier installation and a smaller footprint once set up. It even has implications for security.
- By Keith Ward
- May 31, 2007
Warning to users of pre-release versions of Windows Vista: In two days, your operating system will self-destruct, like the cassette tape at the beginning of "Mission: Impossible."
- By Keith Ward
- May 30, 2007
Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.
- By The Associated Press
- May 30, 2007
Microsoft announced the cancellation of its semi-annual Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) last week, leading to lots of Internet speculation on the reason. But conspiracy theorists should take a breath: The reason may well be as mundane as the fact that it just isn't necessary this year.
- By Keith Ward
- May 29, 2007
Microsoft tends to tout the release of a new operating system as an earth-shattering event, certain to change computing as we know it.
- By Keith Ward
- May 24, 2007
Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week that the mid-cycle, R2 release of Windows Server 2008 will be 64-bit only. Some have extrapolated that to mean that Windows Vista will be the final 32-bit desktop OS from Microsoft. Not so, according to a company blog.
- By Keith Ward
- May 17, 2007
Windows Server 2008 general availability is still months away, but Microsoft already has plans for a Windows Server 2008 R2 release in 2009.
- By Michael Domingo
- May 17, 2007
In its latest technological leap, online search leader Google Inc. will begin showing videos on its main results page Wednesday along with photos, books and other content previously separated into different categories.
- By The Associated Press
- May 16, 2007
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said today that Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses for its Vista operating system in the first 100 days of release.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 15, 2007