Microsoft has been forced to issue emergency patches for its Windows operating system after researchers discovered a way to bypass …
Nortel and Microsoft ICA offerings announced
Coming on the heels of five new commercial offerings introduced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference for the Nortel and …
Microsoft ties Dynamics CRM to Twitter
Microsoft has integrated its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software with Twitter, in just the latest move by an enterprise …
Microsoft wraps up Windows 7
As anticipated, Microsoft Corp. late last week announced that it had finished work on Windows 7, declaring that its next-generation …
Update: Microsoft revenue declines 17% in fiscal Q4
Microsoft revenue declined 17% and net income declined 29% year over year in the company's fiscal 2009 fourth quarter due …
Microsoft to rush out emergency IE patch
Microsoft is taking the unusual step of rushing out two emergency security patches ahead of its regularly scheduled updates on …
Microsoft admits it can’t stop Office file format hacks
Microsoft's plan to “sandbox” Office documents in the next version of its application suite is an admission that the company …
Microsoft, Intel design Windows 7 to be speedy
Collaboration with Microsoft could allow the software giant's upcoming Windows 7 OS to take advantage of multithreaded and multicore Intel …
Microsoft finalizes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 code
Microsoft finalized the code for its Windows 7 client OS and Windows Server 2008 R2, sending both products to manufacturing …
Red Hat lauds, criticizes Microsoft’s Linux efforts
While applauding Microsoft's contribution of code to the Linux community this week, Red Hat nonetheless urged its rival to pledge …
‘Microsoft uses GPLv2 for plug-in linking collaboration tools’
Microsoft continued its GPLv2 theme for the week, announcing a plug-in that integrates its Live@edu collaboration tools with the open …
Bing, Windows 7 in spotlight for Microsoft results
Windows 7 and Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, will be under close watch when the company reports its financial earnings …
Microsoft ships major update for Mac Office 2008
Microsoft updated Office 2008 for Mac to Service Pack 2 (SP2), adding a tool that beefs up access to documents …
Virtualization, cloud underlie Microsoft’s Linux kernel submission
Experts say Microsoft's submission of virtualization driver source code to the Linux kernel marks a watershed event in the vendor's …
Microsoft stuns Linux world
In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. …
Microsoft working on quick-fix capability for IT patch tools
Under the dark cloud of recent zero-day attacks, Microsoft is quickly working to update its enterprise patching tools to incorporate …
Analyst: Microsoft’s Windows 7 license numbers misleading
A former Microsoft employee and prominent analyst warned the financial community not to be misled by Microsoft's claims about early …
Microsoft working on quick-fix capability for IT patch tools
Under the dark cloud of recent zero-day attacks, Microsoft is quickly working to update its enterprise patching tools to incorporate …
Microsoft and Yahoo close to search ad deal
In less than a week, Microsoft could reach an alliance with Yahoo that could compete better with Google in online …
Microsoft admits it tested SQL Server as store for Exchange 2010
Microsoft Corp acknowledged that it had “absolutely” considered replacing the maligned storage engine in its Exchange e-mail server software with …