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Ballmer Wants Board Change at Yahoo

Microsoft's executives have been talking with investor and corporate raider Carl Icahn about renewed plans for Microsoft to acquire part or all of Yahoo, provided that Yahoo's board is replaced.

Microsoft Mends Breach in Open Source Sandcastle

The source code is now available after Microsoft initially removed the project for not following OSI rules.

iTKO Enhances SOA Test Solution With LISA 4.5

The solution is designed to simulate architectural dependencies and test SOA components.

Most Network Data Sits Untouched

Statistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California (UC). Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back over old data.

Citibank Hack Shines Light on PCI Compliance

Just two days after the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council announced the deadline for application security compliance and said it would be issuing guidelines for PIN entry devices, court documents have emerged detailing an elaborate plot to hack Citibank's ATM network architecture.

Data Breaches Up in First Half of 2008

Reported data breaches increased sharply in the first six months of 2008, jumping 69 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

IE Is Least-Patched Browser, Report Says

More than 40 percent of Internet surfers don't use browsers with up-to-date security patches -- and IE users are the biggest culprits.

Microsoft Issues Version 1.0 Protocol Documentation

The new documentation describes technologies that can be used by developers to interoperate with Microsoft's solutions.

Microsoft's XP SP3 Patch Fixes Antivirus Glitch

The hotfix addresses a registry corruption problem that was associated with PCs using Symantec's Norton Antivirus software.

Another Patch-Blocking Problem for Microsoft

Microsoft issued an advisory alerting users about a glitch that prevents security updates from being distributed through specific Windows Server Update programs.

Adobe Adding CMS Features to Upcoming LiveCycle Release

The Java EE-based software bundle will also feature 3D document conversion support and new deployment tools.

Hyper-V Made Available

Microsoft's first major push into the virtualization space officially and unexpectedly kicked off Thursday.

ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta Testers Stage No Confidence Vote

Hundreds of dissatisfied testers of Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework V1 are expressing what they call a "vote of no confidence" in the technology.

ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta Testers Stage No-Confidence Vote

Hundreds of dissatisfied testers of Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework V1, which is still in beta, are staging a protest against the software giant by expressing what they call a "vote of no confidence" in the technology.

Eclipse's Third 'Release Train' on Schedule

On Wednesday June 25 the Eclipse Foundation is sending Ganymede down the tracks.

Linux Developers Condemn Binary Drivers

Top contributors like David Woodhouse, Theodore Tso and Andrew Morton cite havoc binary-only Linux modules can wreak on Linux deployments.

Microsoft Open XML Converter Arrives for Mac

Users of earlier Microsoft Office suites on Mac computers can now convert the current Open XML document formats.

Microsoft Advisory Targets SQL Injection Attacks

Company issues three tools to help Web developers with security.

UPDATE: Windows XP's Death Is for Real, Microsoft Official Explains

Microsoft is really serious about this Monday, June 30, being the end date for selling Windows XP licenses with new computers -- so serious that Senior Vice President Bill Veghte wrote a letter clarifying some the details.

Open Source SOA Software Shares Microsoft Stage

WSO2, recently featured in Microsoft's Tech-Ed IT keynote, also launches new version of ESB product.