Microsoft has patched 25 software vulnerabilities – including bugs that allow hackers to hijack PCs via Internet Explorer, Word and Excel files, and Visual Basic scripts.
Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Acompli, a mobile email app maker, is expected to provide Outlook capabilities that can compete with recent email client updates from Google and IBM.
Microsoft has patched a critical bug in its software that had existed for 19 years. IBM researchers discovered the flaw, which affects Windows and Office products, in May this year…
When it comes to building applications for the cloud, John Gossman thinks agility and portability are essential. “You don’t want to get locked in too much to a particular vendor,…
Microsoft today announced it will release seven security updates on Tuesday, three of them critical, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, various pieces of the Office suite, and the SharePoint…
Just weeks after Northrop Grumman got approval to begin building a new breed of mobile radar systems for the Marine Corps, the Corps has asked the defense contractor in Linthicum…
According to a new report from The Linux Foundation, Linux is leading Windows on both the cloud and in enterprise application deployments.
For a very long time, the Xbox 360’s indie marketplace has been something of a wild west for small game developers, a place where it’s nearly impossible for a good…
Google Inc. plans to boost the commissions it pays some outside firms to sell its workplace software, signaling a more serious challenge to Microsoft Corp. ’s dominance at larger companies,…
Security researchers say the newly-disclosed critical SSL weakness in Microsoft’s Windows operating system could be worse than Heartbleed and Shellshock.
GOOGLE IS MOVING ahead with plans to kill off support for Microsoft Silverlight in its Chrome browser. The Microsoft runtime depends on an ageing plug-in protocol called Netscape Plugin Application…
Microsoft’s open-sourcing of server-side .Net technologies is a big step for the longtime king of proprietary desktop software. But the move itself is of limited impact, and .Net has a…
After selling its handset business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion earlier this year, many people — myself included — thought Nokia was done with devices and would focus on its…
Microsoft has released a security patch to squash a bug in Windows that hackers are exploiting to compromise whole networks of computers.
Last Tuesday’s MS14-066 causes some servers to inexplicably hang, AWS or IIS to break, and Microsoft Access to roll over and play dead.