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Microsoft has brought out its legal hammer against a businessman who publicized a problem with an incentive program run alongside the company's Bing search engine.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10, 2009—Brad Smith, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Microsoft Corp., will receive the Corporate 2010 Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession.
November's Patch Tuesday features fixes for holes in Windows, Excel, and Word, and a critical one affecting the Windows kernel that could be used in drive-by download attacks on Web surfers.
Yes, the user base of the collaboration tool is growing, but it might be shelfware whose hold on the enterprise could be threatened by easier-to-use offerings.
Microsoft announced that it has made some changes to Bing Maps . Changes include the color of the navigation bar, draggble routes, zoom bar changes, command parsing, embedding, dynamic computing, new navigation, speed, and Bing Maps will no longer stop at the international date line, but will wrap around the world continuously. Draggable routes is arguably the most significant change to Bing ...
Google's bringing a free perk to 47 airports around the country, offering free WiFi service during the busy holidays. At SeaTac -- homeport for competitors Microsoft and Amazon -- the freebie will continue "indefinitely."
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Juniper Networks® , the leader in high-performance networking, today confirmed its Intrusion Detection and Prevention security systems and Integrated Security Gateway firewall/virtual private network systems with IDP offer protection for new Microsoft vulnerabilities announced today.
When it comes to keeping your Windows PC secure, all of the scare tactics and overblown virus stories out there make it hard to feel safe online. The fact of the matter is that you don't need to pay...
Microsoft has brought out its legal hammer against a businessman who publicized a problem with an incentive program run alongside the company's Bing search engine.
Microsoft may have ditched the three application limit on the Windows 7 Starter Edition, but other restrictions on the netbook-only version of the operating system will be an unwelcome surprise for many netbook buyers, according to a survey.
GSX Groupware Solutions today announced that it has joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance and is releasing a new management pack, called GSX Monitor Management Pack for SCOM, to facilitate the seamless integration of its GSX Monitor solution for Domino, Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise servers with Microsoft System Center Operation Manager 2007.
OpenOffice.org, the developers of the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, recently released the new OpenOffice Mouse, designed to give OpenOffice users a faster and more efficient experience with the OpenOffice applications. The mouse has a whopping total of 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and up to 52 shortcut key commands. The large number of buttons is [...]
A high-profile online advertising Web site has been hacked and rigged to serve multiple exploits to Microsoft Windows users.
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are each giving consumers free Wi-Fi in manner this holiday season.
Software giant takes down tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on Netbooks after blogger raises question about whether the software improperly uses open-source code.
Cyber Cynic: "While I like the Linux desktop a lot, I don't pretend that it's that popular. That's why I found it fascinating that, despite everything Microsoft has been able to throw at it, desktop Linux still managed to claim 32% of the netbook market."
Microsoft released Office 2008 12.2.3 for Mac users on Tuesday. The update for the office application suite pushes fixes that Microsoft is calling critical, including patches for security-related flaws.
When Microsoft finally announced the release date for their next generation operating system, Windows 7, they made a promise to people who purchased Windows Vista machines after a certain date: you’ll be able to easily upgrade to Windows 7 with a disc sent to you in the mail, for a negligible price. It was a good [...]
Simply wetting yourself with excitement over Microsoft's new Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter? Well, pull yourself together because it looks like there isn't long to wait.
A Microsoft tool makes it impossible to change desktop settings if it detects a possible pirate copy of the XP or Vista operating system.
Samsung announced an "open" mobile platform called "Bada," which appears to be a programmable UI layer that runs on its proprietary feature phones, although one report defines Bada as Samsung's own Linux OS. Meanwhile, a Korean analyst report claims that Samsung plans to discard Symbian and downshift Microsoft's Windows Mobile.
