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Microsoft applies Model T factory methods to datacenters Microsoft has come up with a faster, cheaper way to build its datacenters over the next five years, and it says other companies could use its methods too.Microsoft's approach, described by General Manager Michae Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft patched critical Windows bug in XP SP3 early The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows. The glitch, which sent some PCs into an endl Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Will Microsoft deliver Windows 7 next year? Microsoft has dropped two strong hints in the past two days that the next version of its Windows operating system will arrive in 2009, shaving up to a year off previous expectations.It could also be a signal tha Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft exec touts mixed source ventures Microsoft has been making moves on the licensing front and accommodations with open source, such as its controversial 2006 agreement with Novell pertaining to Suse Linux. Looking to elaborate on Microsoft's activities, Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft vice president and d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to fix eight bugs in year's final Patch Tuesday Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and other products.Two of the eight updates will patch Windows, anothe Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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TechNet subscribers rip Microsoft over XP SP3 'farce' In a repeat of a February donnybrook over SP1 (Service Pack 1) for Windows Vista, IT professionals and developers are blasting Microsoft's decision to withhold the final version of Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) from them until after it's released to the public. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud Microsoft has been busy this year, rolling out Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in a push to expand its presence in the corporate data center. To be successful, the company must overcome an economic environment that appears increasingly difficult as well as tou Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: IE8 release candidate 'just around the corner' Microsoft Tuesday said that the release candidate for Internet Explorer 8 is "just around the corner" and urged developers to get ready to test their sites with the new browser.Elsewhere, the TG Daily technology Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft pursues search improvements, sans Yahoo While the company only has a 10 percent share of the search market with its Live Search technology, Microsoft has big plans to enhance its platform regardless of what happens with its now-dormant proposal to buy Yahoo. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open APIs may help Microsoft repair reputation If Microsoft executes effectively on its new interoperability promises, it could repair its tarnished reputation in the technology industry and help the company get out of its own way to compete more effectively with Google. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Will Google and Microsoft own the Web? It's something of an open secret that Mozilla, the organization behind the open source Firefox Web browser, gets most of its funding from Google -- 91 percent, to be exact. The deal gives Google top placement in Firefox's search engine bar. But now that Google is also Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised "greater transparency" in its development and business practices, outlining a new strategy to provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols for some of its major software products, i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft cited for open efforts, eyes Eclipse Microsoft received plaudits and criticism for its openness efforts at the MIX08 event Thursday with a Microsoft official also citing an overture toward the Eclipse Foundation for open-source tooling.During a pan Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo Assuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we hav Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to push life-cycle collaboration in newest Visual Studio Under the banner of "democratizing" application life-cycle management (ALM), Microsoft is unveiling today the next major release of its Visual Studio Team System platform. Visual Studio Team System 2010, which has been code-named "Rosario," focuses on collaboration be Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft lays out SQL Server roadmap Microsoft laid out on Monday its road map for SQL Server and a complement of add-ons it hopes will eventually redefine business intelligence and data warehousing.The next version of the database server, code-nam Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft lays out SQL Server road map Microsoft laid out on Monday its road map for SQL Server and a complement of add-ons it hopes will eventually redefine business intelligence and data warehousing.The next version of the database server, code-nam Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft rewriting applications for hosted offerings Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to offer them in a hosted fashion, an executive said on Tuesday.In order to efficiently host applications for customers, Microsoft must support multitenancy, whic Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft confirms another executive departure Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that a long-standing and influential member of the Windows OS team has left, one of several recent and imminent executive departures that together represent a changing of the guard at the company. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux creator: Microsoft is bluffing on patents Microsoft's aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than "a marketing thing," according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |