Company will lay off 25,000 employees.
Most are easily exploitable, according to industry report.
On Tuesday, Redmond rolled out four patches for the month of May as expected, with three deemed "Critical" and one "Moderate."
Microsoft is investigating the matter, but the bug seems to derive from bad installs by OEMs on AMD-based computers.
IT pros are having a hard time balancing security, software patch management and IT auditing with a host of other duties, says a Shavlik Technologies survey.
On Monday Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 beta bits for public download.
They're small and easy to create. They multiply like rabbits. The best become immensely popular very quickly and are forgotten just as fast. And they are changing the face of application development.
At JavaOne this week, Neal Gafter, a software engineer at Google, presented his proposed specification for adding closures to Java
Three patches will target critical remote code execution exploits in Microsoft Office, Publisher and the Jet Database Engine.
It's not efficiencies -- it's cutting costs.
If there is one topic that seems to get Java programmers excited, it's the question of whether to include a new feature called closures in the next version of Java.
Microsoft issued the second community technology preview of its scripting and management tool for servers using Windows operating systems.
Just because you've deployed an enterprise-grade instant messaging (IM) solution from a well-known vendor, doesn't mean you've mitigated -- let alone completely licked -- the threat posed by rogue, unsanctioned or illicit IM use in your enterprise environment.
Rock legend Neil Young joined Sun Microsystems' Executive Vice President of Software Rich Green on stage during the opening keynote of the 13th annual JavaOne conference.
Exec says Live Mesh key for tying together various online and offline solutions
Borland agrees to sell its CodeGear unit for $23 million to Embarcadero Technologies.
Deepening its existing partner relationship with Dell as a new competitive dynamic and pricing model unfolds, Citrix has announced the availability of a Dell-specific embedded version of XenServer for Dell PowerEdge servers.
Redmond hopes to challenge SAS Institute and SPSS for data mining and predictive analytic bragging rights.
Thirty years after the first unsolicited e-mail advertisement was sent, the phenomenon now known as spam is continuing to grow -- and becoming more sophisticated, creative and malicious.
Developers expand Eclipse's ability to run applications across different systems; new languages, SOA tools expected in next release.