Microsoft released a Windows 7 Beta client update that fixes problems that a small number of users were experiencing with Internet Explorer 8 on the new OS.
Microsoft released a cumulative update to its application virtualization solution, which now supports the Windows 7 Beta, according to an announcement issued by the company on Thursday.
Microsoft's technical team on Thursday reported progress on improvements to the beta version of Windows 7, assuring testers that the team really cares about user feedback.
Market researchers at IDC, who produce one of the most widely watched forecasts for IT spending, have revised the forecast for 2009 -- and it's "downward ho."
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/26/2009
A new report from IDC, announced on Wednesday, suggested that the global economic malaise has already chipped away at the enterprise IT server market.
Microsoft is looking into public reports of a vulnerability in Excel that could enable a remote code execution attack by hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/25/2009
TechNet and MSDN subscribers now have access to the Release Candidate version of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
Google is the latest Web browser maker to join the plaintiff's side in a European Commission (EC) complaint against Microsoft's Internet Explorer distribution practices.
A team consisting of Microsoft Research personnel and university staff members has demonstrated a potentially more secure Web browser called Gazelle.
Microsoft provided a strategic update at a financial analyst meeting in New York, describing prospects for the company's second half of the fiscal year, which ends in June.
Citrix and Microsoft, already close collaborators on many
virtualization-based initiatives, ratcheted up their relationship Monday with
the announcement of Citrix Essentials, a group of technologies calculated to
shoehorn their way into the enterprise datacenters now dominated by VMware.
Earlier this month, BeyondTrust released a report on security threats to IT shops running Microsoft software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/23/2009
VMware on Monday joined the growing list of major software platform firms with a virtual partner training campus by launching a nine-language Partner University.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/23/2009
Another vendor has thrown its hat into the enterprise virtualization ring. This one is red.
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
VMLogix has partnered with Citrix to shore up its brand-new offering, adding lab management and automation capabilities to Citrix Essentials.
A Norwegian Web portal has begun a campaign to kill the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser.
Microsoft got a favorable court ruling on Wednesday in an ongoing lawsuit against its past Vista Capable marketing practices.
Microsoft changed course on its "custom support" policy by holding down a routine price increase this year.
Trend Micro said hackers are targeting a hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was addressed in Microsoft's February security patch issued last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2009