Microsoft today described its own version of events concerning Friday's failed talks with Yahoo's management, which were focused on a renewed effort to buy Yahoo's search ad business.
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, which was technically approved in April as an international standard (ISO/IEC 29500), may be on its way toward surviving an appeals process -- the last challenge to its legitimacy as a standard.
Redmond divulges tidbits of SQL Server 2008 release information at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/10/2008
One of the big surprises at Microsoft's Tech-Ed North America 2008 Developers conference in Orlando, Fla., last month was the launch of Project "Velocity," the code name for a distributed, in-memory data-caching platform that was quietly under development in Redmond.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/09/2008
Most desktop computers today, when not in use, power down their hard drives to save energy. While this may be very green, it also incurs minor, though sometimes frustrating, delays.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/09/2008
In a move that sent shock waves across the virtualization market, VMware's board of directors announced that Diane Greene, the company's co-founder, president and CEO, will be replaced by Paul Maritz, a 14-year veteran of Microsoft and head of EMC's Cloud Division.
Major vendors of domain name system (DNS) servers are making an unprecedented coordinated release of patches for what is being called a fundamental flaw in DNS, a core element of the Internet.
- By William Jackson
- 07/08/2008
The International Organization for Standardization has approved the PDF as a standard format for electronic documents.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/07/2008
Microsoft has released all of the source code used in its Sandcastle project, which is now published at the CodePlex open source developer's Web site, according to a blog.
IT pros will come back from the holiday weekend to face a possible four patches in Microsoft's July patch rollout, according to an advance announcement.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/03/2008
At the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools deigned for helping developers build education solutions.
Reported data breaches increased sharply in the first six months of 2008, jumping 69 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
- By William Jackson
- 07/02/2008
In the wake of a report suggesting that IE was the least secure Web browser, Redmond on Wednesday touted the security features expected to appear in IE 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/02/2008
Statistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California (UC). Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back over old data.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/02/2008
Microsoft's surprise launch of its in-memory data caching platform could bolster data-driven app development.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008
Redmond joins the Open Source Census in a bid to better understand and track open source deployment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008
Adobe launches Acrobat.com, a free Web-based productivity and collaboration tools bundle.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008
New support for both Silverlight and the .NET 3.5 Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008
iAnywhere Solutions Inc. opens beta program for its SQL Anywhere 11 embedded and mobile database-management system.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008
Redmond’s Secure Development Lifecycle requirements aim to counter security defects in the face of recent SQL attacks.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008