In a move that promises to extend the appeal of the Spring Framework to enterprise developers, SpringSource on Monday said it has acquired Hyperic Inc., a supplier of open source Web application and infrastructure management.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 05/05/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced  that it is seeking customers  willing to test their databases in a cloud-based data connectivity project.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft announced some SharePoint product updates that may have  gotten trampled under a stampede of information flowing out of Redmond this week.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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.