Month: August 2010

Cisco settles antitrust suit over software updates

Cisco settles antitrust suit over software updates has settled a 2008 lawsuit in which independent network maintenance company Multiven charged that Cisco forced customers to buy its SMARTnet service plan in order to get bug fixes and software updates. Multiven agreed to drop its claims against Cisco, and Cisco dropped countersuits against Multiven, network expertise […]

Microsoft releases Azure cloud platform appliance

Microsoft releases Azure cloud platform appliance With the help of hardware partners, Microsoft MCTS Training has released a version of its Windows Azure cloud platform as an appliance, the company said on Monday during the kickoff of its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Washington D.C. Microsoft has run a version of […]

Video previews Microsoft Office 2011 plans

Video previews Microsoft Office 2011 plans Microsoft has started rolling out more details about Office 2011, the upcoming upgrade of its productivity suite. On Wednesday, the company posted a brief video on its Mac Mojo blog showing off a few of the suite’s new features. The video–which combines images of the software and interviews with […]

IBM snaps up Storwize

IBM snaps up Storwize After much anticipation, IBM on Thursday announced its intent to acquire data compression vendor Storwize. Storwize, based in Marlborough, Mass., provides data compression in real-time that can reduce primary data by as much as 80%, according to company claims. The company has been successful in engaging customers such as Shopzill and […]

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole Microsoft MCTS Training on Tuesday will release a rare out-of-band patch to fix the highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability  that has caused multiple researchers to issuing warnings earlier this month. The patch will be for all supported versions of Windows and will require a restart. As I […]

Microsoft slates IE9 beta for September

Microsoft slates IE9 beta for September MIcrosoft will ship a beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in September, a company executive said today. If the timeline is accurate, the IE9 beta release will come a month later than earlier speculation, which had settled on August, a pick based in large part on PowerPoint slides purportedly […]

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole Microsoft on Tuesday will release a rare out-of-band patch to fix the highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability  that has caused multiple researchers to issuing warnings earlier this month. The patch will be for all supported versions of Windows and will require a restart. As I previously wrote […]

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