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2009-11-24
Software developer K. Scott Allen in a blog post questions Microsoft's commitment to dynamic languages. At issue is whether Microsoft's IronPython and IronRuby are first-class citizens in .NET land.
2009-11-24
The Samsung Omnia II will be coming to the Verizon Wireless network Dec. 2. The Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone pairs a full-touch, super-bright 3.7-inch display with 3G, Wi-Fi and enterprise-friendly features.
2009-11-23
Microsoft confirms the existence of proof-of-concept attack code for a flaw affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
2009-11-23
Microsoft responded to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's assertion, made in a Nov. 20 column, that Bing offers pro-Chinese-government results for politically sensitive queries inputted in simplified Chinese. Microsoft now asserts that those results are related to what the company calls a "bug" that will be fixed soon, although Kristof argues the company told him the same thing in June. Microsoft follows Google in experiencing political problems while trying to disseminate the Chinese version of its search engine.
2009-11-23
Overall PC shipments are expected to be up in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a new report from Gartner. Falling ASPs, however, have market value on the downhill, and the effects of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system likely won’t be felt until 2010.
2009-11-23
Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. are rumored to be in talks over an agreement that would see News Corp.'s Websites delisted from Google search in exchange for payment by Microsoft. While Microsoft has declined to comment on the rumors, the Financial Times has cited an anonymous source as saying the talks are in early stages. Throughout 2009, Microsoft has been securing deals with Yahoo and other companies as part of a broad strategy aiming to eat into Google's market share.
2009-11-23
Researchers at Symantec say exploit code for a zero-day security vulnerability has been uncovered in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
2009-11-22
Microsoft rolled out the beta of Office 2010 and other productivity software, and made some key announcements about its Windows Azure cloud platform, during the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week. Even as Microsoft moves to embrace the cloud, the release of Google Chrome OS to open source for developers on Nov. 19 suggests that Redmond may eventually have to think even further about the cloud--and ways it could potentially move parts of its Windows franchise from the desktop to the Web.
2009-11-21
A boutique Texas law firm establishes a forum for Microsoft Xbox 360 owners who feel they were unfairly banned from the company's Xbox Live service, in the interest of filing a class action suit against Microsoft.
2009-11-21
Microsoft unveiled some details about Internet Explorer 9 this week at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. But what does Microsoft have in store for IE users from a security perspective?
2009-11-20
Microsoft issued an official response to news of Google releasing its Chrome Operating System to open source for developers. Although the Chrome OS will not be available to end users for at least another year, Microsoft is already citing Windows 7 as a more viable alternative for working on both the Web and the desktop. The initial target of the Chrome OS will be netbooks, whose always-on data connection will allow the browser-based operating system to launch and run its applications from the cloud.
2009-11-20
Microsoft uncovers a vulnerability in a controversial Google plug-in for Internet Explorer that could be exploited to bypass cross-origin protections. Google patched the issue this week in an update.
2009-11-19
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells his audience at the Microsoft Annual Shareholder Meeting that Windows 7 has been outselling previous versions of Windows, including Windows Vista, by a ratio of 2-to-1. Data from outside analysts suggests that Windows 7 has made steady gains in the PC market since its Oct. 22 release.
2009-11-19
With Chrome OS, Google says it has abandoned the traditional operating system security model and put its focus on using process isolation, verified boot, encryption and system hardening to protect users.
2009-11-19
News Analysis: Google is new to the operating system market, so it has to demonstrate that it understands how to build and maintain a secure Web OS. The history of Windows security has shown there are many avenues of attack against a desktop operating system. There are even more potential attack strategies for an online OS. But whether Google has learned the many hard lessons of Web security is very much in doubt at this point.
2009-11-19
SugarCRM has announced that it will offer its CRM applications on the Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers (VARs) to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of the Microsoft cloud platform for Web applications and services.
2009-11-19
Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past year. In addition, the company released a software development kit for developers to use on their PCs to simulate the Surface environment.
2009-11-19
Microsoft and SAP announced that the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application would be "a preferred solution" for Microsoft customers seeking business functionality such as planning, budgeting, and financial forecasting. Both companies will explore ways to accelerate adoption of the SAP application among Microsoft's user base. Microsoft’s focusing on its core products, and divesting itself of some internally created business-intelligence applications, leaves it open to such partnerships.
2009-11-18
News Analysis: With the preview of Google's Chrome OS possibly just a day away, Microsoft should be concerned. If Chrome OS delivers on Google's promises, it could eventually capture the operating system market. The computing world is moving to cloud computing on the Web. Chrome OS, starting from its base as a Web OS, could win over a host of developers and users to this new platform. If this happens then Chrome OS could become the first new operating system in many years that has a serious chance of shaking Windows' dominance on the world's PCs.
2009-11-18
Microsoft releases the public beta version of Office 2010, asking for feedback from users ahead of the productivity suite's general release in early 2010. While Microsoft Office has traditionally been a desktop-centered platform, new functionality connects its various applications to the Web in new ways, particularly with the Outlook Social Connector, which allows users to see e-mail senders' LinkedIn connections and activity feeds.
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In Office 2007, the Outlook mail client looked a lot like its previous iteration, lacking even a full implementation of the productivity suite's ribbon interface. With Outlook 2010, however, Microsoft has caught the mail client up with the rest of the Office suite. eWEEK Labs' tests of the Outlook 2010 beta show some significant improvements, but also some room for confusion.
Microsoft's "Windows 7 Is My Idea" billboard campaign reminds eWEEK Labs' Andrew Garcia that annoying things about Windows are still present in Version 7--and that new annoyances have been added to the list. Here's what Garcia would add to the OS to make Windows truly his idea.
Office has an unenviable task: getting organizations and individuals excited about undertaking a major upgrade of a platform whose previous versions have been handling users' productivity chores just fine for going on 10 years now. The beta of Office 2010 shows extended Web and mobile reach, as well as a number of useful enhancements across the suite's apps.
A move to Windows 7 was driven less by the new operating system's features and more by the 64-bit performance promise, but unexpected issues forced unwanted compromises.
With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 comes an update to the company's Web platform, Internet Information Services. Like R2, IIS 7.5 isn't a massive upgrade, but it does provide some welcome administration improvements. In addition, the new version seems to acknowledge that Microsoft may have made IIS a little too Apache-like in previous iterations.
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