A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday vacated $358 million in damages awarded to Alcatel-Lucent after Microsoft was found to have infringed patented software technology.
What is being billed as the largest gathering of IT and software architects is set to take place next month in New York, where a professional certification program will be launched.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/11/2009
Toronto-based i4i LP filed legal papers on Tuesday rebutting Microsoft's appeal in a patent infringement case involving Microsoft Word.
Microsoft's chief financial officer fielded questions about Microsoft's business at the Citi Annual Technology Conference on Wednesday.
The all-critical patch release of hotfixes served up by Redmond Tuesday hadn't even cooled off yet when Microsoft issued yet another security advisory on late Tuesday night.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its September security patch, which is notable for containing five "critical" security bulletins.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/08/2009
Software security vendors like to point to glitches in Microsoft products, but they don't always get much acknowledgment from Redmond.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/08/2009
Big Iron shops have two options to run their Windows applications on System z: emulation via z/Vos or full-blown porting via Mono.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/08/2009
A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday stayed an injunction against Microsoft, pending appeal, in a patent dispute involving Microsoft Word.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a test version of an extension that's designed to help speed up PHP-based Web applications running on Windows platforms.
Microsoft is forecasting a rare Patch Tuesday next week, with all of the September security bulletins expected to be deemed "critical."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/03/2009
Microsoft rolled out yet another free test version of Windows 7 on Tuesday -- this time targeting IT pros who haven't previously had access to the new operating system.
Microsoft launched a new licensing promotion on Tuesday aimed at midsize companies vying to better manage their servers and IT resources.
- By Herb Torrens
- 09/02/2009
Red Hat released the fourth update of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform, which the company is calling the foundation of its virtualization portfolio.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/02/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the availability of a test version of its Windows Embedded Standard 2011 operating system, formerly code-named "Quebec."
Oracle released the first major update of its flagship database in two years with an upgrade focused on server consolidation, improved storage and extended data warehouse performance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2009
For the second time this year, Microsoft issued a security advisory for possible vulnerabilities in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/02/2009
IBM released a virtualized client computing offering it touts as a cloud-based desktop.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2009
In a move aimed at expanding the footprint of its distributed application lifecycle management platform TeamForge, CollabNet today said it will offer preconfigured professional services and new online resources.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2009
New JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 boasts extended services architecture and integration with Amazon's EC2.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2009