More than just bug fixes, SP1 promises to improve developer productivity.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/15/2008
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
Intel Corp. on Tuesday shared technical plans for an important element needed to develop the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) specification.
New integrated development environments have become rapidly shadowed of late by monoliths such as Eclipse and Visual Studio. However, that has not deterred Boulder, Colo.-based startup N-BRAIN Inc.
Microsoft closed its investigation into an update blocking issue that affected users of Windows Server Update Service 3.0 or WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1.
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/13/2008
Microsoft's August patch, slated to be the largest patch rollout since 12 bulletins hit users in February of 2007, came up short by one.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/12/2008
With the U.S. economy still circling and unemployment on the rise, it's a good time to be in IT -- relatively speaking.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/11/2008
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
Microsoft lost browser market share over the last year, according to a report issued by management consulting firm Janco Associates Inc.
IT Pros and system administrators will be mighty busy this month as Microsoft announced plans to release 12 patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/07/2008
VMware joined the Linux Foundation on Monday.
A cache of stolen data gathered from a botnet that has been quietly sweeping up information for years contained the user names and passwords for 8,485 bank accounts.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008
We dodged a bullet last month -- the discovery of a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System, Dan Kaminsky told a standing-room only (and some sitting on the floor) crowd at the Black Hat Briefings Wednesday.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008
One fun thing about the interactive world of Web 2.0 is the online applications you can take advantage of, such as Google Gadgets.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008
Microsoft is initiating a new security notification approach, the company announced on Tuesday at the Black Hat security conference.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/06/2008
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
- 08/06/2008
The Black Hat Briefings return to Caesars Palace this week with a new batch of hands-on security research for a crowd of 4,000 IT administrators, hackers, industry experts and government officials.
- By William Jackson
- 08/06/2008
AT&T has introduced a new hosted service that offers online storage, processing power and enterprise applications.
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/06/2008
IBM Corp. late last week touted the construction of two additional cloud computing datacenters -- an investment of $360 million -- which let it address what officials call "surging" demand for cloud computing resources.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/05/2008