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Ballmer and Liddell Defend Microsoft's Online Spending Plans

Microsoft held its 2008 Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday, with 10 senior executives attempting to assure the number-crunching crowd on the company's overall financial outlook.

Most Malware Found on Trusted Web Pages, Report Says

Sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Blogspot.com represent vectors for attack.

Survey: Vista Adoption Weakens, as IT Pros Eye Apple

Interest in adopting Windows Vista has slipped among IT professionals, according to a recent survey.

DNS Flaw Unfixed as Experts Argue Protocol

Speculation continues as to what the ultimate systemic Domain Name System (DNS) flaw could be.

VMware To Give Away Hypervisor

VMware has launched its first counter-attack to Microsoft's pricing structure for its virtualization products, announcing that ESXi, its lightweight hypervisor, is going to be given away for free.

Microsoft's DNS Fix Leads to More Problems

The blogosphere is awash with talk about the possible overall weakness of the Domain Name System (DNS) architecture.

IT Cost Cuts in 2008 May Be a Trend, Study Says

A study surveying 201 CIOs found a general slowdown in IT spending and staffing.

Open Source Needs Better Security Focus, Study Says

The open source software community lags behind the commercial software sector in secure code development, according to a recent study of some commonly used open source packages.

Compliance, New Threats Drive Security Spending

Enterprise security is an expensive proposition, one that's likely to get even more expensive as organizations take further steps to protect themselves.

Subversion SCM Tool Gets Update

CollabNet releases Subversion 1.5, an updated version of its open source software-configuration management tool.

Yahoo Ends Proxy Fight With Icahn

Yahoo partly acceded to the demands of corporate raider Carl Icahn by agreeing to seat Icahn and two of his proxy-slate candidates to Yahoo's board.

Microsoft's $60B Year-End Revenue Dogged by Search Costs

Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter and 2008 year-end financial results were announced in a Webcast on Thursday.

Microsoft's Live Mesh Preview Wait-List Only

Microsoft broadened the preview access to testers of its new cloud-computing connectivity platform.

Live Mesh Preview: It's Wait-List Only

Microsoft quietly opened its Live Mesh preview to more testers on July 15, but by today (July 17), the offer had been narrowed to just waiting-list only.

Sun Launches Java VisualVM

Free, open-source tool offers visual details for Java apps.

NetBeans To Support Python/Jython

The Sun Microsystems-sponsored open-source NetBeans IDE will soon be supporting both Python and Sun's Jython dynamic scripting languages

Oracle Releases Critical Updates

Oracle databases 9i through 11g, Oracle Application Server, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM among products patched.

Embarcadero Releases SQL Optimizer

In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.

Q&A: Fausto Ibarra Takes SQL Server Reins

New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.

Government, Health Care Web Sites Attacked

A scan of Web servers by Internet security company Finjan Inc. has found more than 1,000 legitimate Web sites that had been compromised by a new wave of attacks in recent weeks.