For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Microsoft announced a sweeping range of updates to its ...
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Just 11 days after issuing an advisory, Microsoft has released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer 8 that bedeviled the U.S. Department of Labor earlier this month. Microsoft's speedy release of this patch "is an outstanding example of ...
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. IE10, which Microsoft launched last October for Windows 8 and in ...
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While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released ...
Microsoft today re-released a security update that had crashed customers' PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots, saying that the revised patch is now safe to install. The revamped MS13-036 update -- first issued April 9, but ...
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Cisco?last week extended its?data centre?product line to support Microsoft's?Windows Server 2012?hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align the two companies' data centre and cloud architectures for joint customers. The ...
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Microsoft today urged Windows 7 users to uninstall a patch shipped earlier this week that has crashed customer's PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots. The patch, which was originally issued Tuesday, has been pulled from ...
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Microsoft on Monday released a public beta of Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2), the first major update to the suite in almost two years. The preview of Office 2010 SP2 can be downloaded from Microsoft's Connect website, the company said. ...
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The more information that leaks about Windows 8's expected summer upgrade, dubbed "Blue" by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts said today. And with very few exceptions, customers don't have answers. The latest tidbit ...
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Microsoft today said it will start automatically pushing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to customers as a last-ditch move before it drops the original 2009 edition of Windows 7 from support next month. Windows 7 RTM -- the latter stands ...
As part of its monthly issue of software patches, Microsoft has fixed a Windows vulnerability that would have allowed someone to subvert a computer's security using only a USB thumb drive and some attack code. The vulnerability, MS13-027, ...
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Cortado presented its mobile device management (MDM) and virtual printing solutions at this week’s CeBit trade fair in Hanover, Germany. The vendor said that trends such as BYOD offer companies the potential to substantially ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering users a monthlong free trial of a set of system analysis tools that the company is developing. The free offer is one of a number of price cuts and expanded services the company has introduced in the ...
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Fujitsu promises that its Lifebook E Line laptops will use all the same standard components, including the main board, drives for the modular expansion bay and AC adaptors, despite coming in screen sizes from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches. ...
Microsoft may upgrade Office 2013 as often as four times a year, the company's top Office executive said this week, a massive change from decades of more measured development. The faster release pace for Office has been repeatedly touted ...
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