Microsoft has offered an explanation as to why it took the company seven years to issue a patch for a known vulnerability.
The upcoming Microsoft Office Web will also run on Mac OS X and Linux
Microsoft has released EBS (Essential Business Server) 2008 and Windows SBS (Small Business Server) 2008
All About Microsoft published a news story on Windows 7 and netbooks
Microsoft has released the November 2008 version of the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
InfoWorld posted a news story that a programmer has unlocked several still-unfinished features of Windows 7 that Microsoft has hidden from users who received the alpha build at two recent developer conferences.
InfoWorld posted a news story that Microsoft signs MSN Toolbar deal with Sun
Windows 7 will usher in a host of changes all over the OS, including a major overhaul of the graphics architecture. Extreme Tech published an article about what you can expect.
InfoWorld posted some first information on the planned Visual Studio 2010 software
CNET News' Ina Fried offers a peek at several features in Windows 7 that haven't gotten much attention.
InfoWorld reports that Windows 7 will run on SSD netbooks
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has a message for his Microsoft counterpart Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo, and Ballmer only has to say the word and Yang will be sitting at the negotiating table. To this day I would say that the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo, Yang said during a keynote appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Yang to Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo
Yang to Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo
Last week, Microsoft announced its cloud-computing effort, called Azure. Fitting between Google's and Amazon.com's current offerings, it represents a very big step toward moving applications off the desktop and out of a corporation's own datacenters.
Making sense of Microsoft's Azure
Making sense of Microsoft's Azure
Microsoft has released the November 2008 issue of the DirectX Software Development Kit
Hardware and device makers that hadn't developed drivers compatible with Windows Vista when it was released shouldn't have the same problem with Windows 7, a Microsoft product manager said Wednesday. Microsoft is building Windows 7 to ensure a high level of compatibility with Windows Vista, so device makers that invested in creating drivers for Vista won't have to rebuild them from the ground up for Windows 7, said Jeff Price, senior director, Windows product management, in an interview.
Microsoft: Moving to Windows 7 easy for device makers
Microsoft: Moving to Windows 7 easy for device makers
Microsoft focuses on a feature called "device stage" that makes it easier to tweak settings for add-ons. Also, company shows off support for sensors and touch.
Windows 7 takes center 'stage'
Windows 7 takes center 'stage'
Looking to boost Web-based ventures and its new Windows Azure cloud services platform, Microsoft on Wednesday is announcing Microsoft BizSpark, a program providing software and services to startups. "The cornerstone [of the program] is to get into the hands of the startup community all of our development tools and servers required to build Web-based solutions," said Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft. Participants around the globe also gain visibility and marketing, Lewin said.
Microsoft launches BizSpark to boost Azure
Microsoft launches BizSpark to boost Azure
Software maker will allow certain companies to use Windows Server and other products for three years at no charge.
Microsoft offers free software for start-ups
Microsoft offers free software for start-ups
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows Trojans continue to dominate the field of malware, emerging markets are at greater risk for infection, and vulnerability rates are going down overall.
Microsoft: Trojans are huge and China is tops in browser exploits
Microsoft: Trojans are huge and China is tops in browser exploits
Microsofts latest security report shows that the number of new vulnerabilities found in its software was lower in first half of the year than the last half of 2007, with the Windows Vista OS proving more resistant to exploits than XP.Microsoft reported 77 vulnerabilities from January to June compared to 116 for the last six months of 2007, according to the companys fifth Security Intelligence Report.
Microsoft: Data shows Vista more secure than XP
Microsoft: Data shows Vista more secure than XP
