Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
The technology helps throttle bandwidth in streaming media, with a beta release expected early next year.
Group seeks better interoperability and conformance for office-suite XML document format standard.
The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will offer a new software development platform for cloud computing added new energy to the debate over how and when organizations might begin turning to the technology.
A technical preview of lightweight hosted Microsoft Office apps is planned for sometime this year.
An online startup company migrated some of its operations into the cloud by using Microsoft Windows Azure services.
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is out for private beta testing, but Microsoft is planning some new capabilities.
The company will add its efforts toward developing the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol open standard.
A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
Microsoft will release a beta of the second service pack for Vista "to a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers."
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a pre-beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
The latest version of Visual Studio features help for developers with parallel computing apps.
It looks like that Redmond's hunch was correct when it issued an out-of-cycle security patch late last week, because on Wednesday Microsoft identified publicly available exploit code related to that vulnerability.
Microsoft announced it will make Live Mesh available as a beta this week, while Live Framework is now available as a CTP.
Chrome has the makings of a good, lightweight browser, but it still lacks a few important features.
Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
The latest version Ubuntu Linux features some improvements, but a few problems still persist.
Microsoft may have reaffirmed its commitment to cloud computing with the launch of its Windows Azure operating system, but overall business adoption of the cloud concept may be stymied, in part, by security issues.