Microsoft got a favorable court ruling on Wednesday in an ongoing lawsuit against its past Vista Capable marketing practices.
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009
Worldwide shipments of PC microprocessors plummeted in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to a report announced on Wednesday by the International Data Group (IDC).
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/11/2009
Redmond's February slate of security bulletins includes four patches -- two deemed "critical" and two "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/10/2009
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) today posted an open letter to President Barack Obama on open source software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/10/2009
Microsoft's antitrust past has come back to haunt it, yet again.
After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/06/2009
Microsoft plans to rollout four security bulletins for this month's patch cycle on Tuesday, with two "critical" items and two "important" patches on the slate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/05/2009
Microsoft has begun aggressively reaching out to the channel to prepare for the release of Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/04/2009
The latest products for .NET developers.
Users testing Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta have been asking Microsoft when it will release the final product, but Microsoft isn't saying right now, according to a Windows 7 team blog posted on Friday.
A dispute with the European Union might change how Microsoft distributes its software in the region.
One bright spot in the IT economy appears to be virtualization, with leading provider VMware today announcing that its yearly revenue rose 42 percent in 2008 to $1.9 billion. Fourth quarter revenues were a "solid" $515 million -- up 25 percent over last year.
Microsoft today made available Release Candidate 1 of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2009
For the second time in as many weeks, after a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/27/2009