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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 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 […]

Can Microsoft imitate Apple one more time

Can Microsoft imitate Apple one more time Remember back in early June when Steve Ballmer said the Apple iPad was “just another PC”? He’d like to amend that slightly to “just another PC that’s now kicking our a**.” In a meeting with analysts yesterday, Ballmer spent a fair amount of time talking about Apple’s iPad […]

Microsoft Get Back to Work

Microsoft Get Back to Work Steve Ballmer assured analysts and the world that Microsoft MCTS Training is hard at work developing a Windows 7-based tablet to compete with devices like the Apple iPad. It is also putting the finishing touches on Windows Phone 7, and preparing to launch the innovative Kinect controller for the Xbox […]

Microsoft wins a Pwnie for failure

Microsoft wins a Pwnie for failure Microsoft has earned the dubious distinction of having the Most Epic FAIL of the last year in computer security with a browser cross-site scripting (XSS) filter that actually exacerbated the problem. The company was given the award at the conclusion of the annual Blackhat 2010 security conference Wednesday in […]

Adobe joins Microsoft patch-reporting program

Adobe joins Microsoft’s patch-reporting program Adobe and Microsoft are now working together to give security companies a direct line into their bug-fixing efforts. By year’s end, Adobe will start using the Microsoft MCTS Training Active Protections Program (MAPP) to share details on its latest patches, according to Brad Arkin, Adobe’s director of product security and […]

Drop responsible from bug disclosures Microsoft urges

Drop responsible from bug disclosures Microsoft urges Microsoft today pitched its own proposal for how software makers react to bugs reported by researchers, calling for a name change to describe the process it prefers. Rather than dub the back-and-forth between bug finders and vendors “responsible disclosure” — a term that implies that the researcher reports […]

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