Microsoft is taking a"big gamble"with its new Windows 8,one that will see the operating system peak at just 20%to 25%of corporate PCs,Gartner analysts said today. "Microsoft is taking a big gamble over the next few months with Windows and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Gartner, Windows 8, analysts, Michael Silver, Steve Kleynhans
"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, Trend and Risk Report., IBM, US
Businesses should start leaning on vendors now to upgrade applications that use less than 1,024-bit encryption before it's too late. What is currently a voluntary upgrade request from Microsoft is likely to become mandatory within a few ...
Tags: Microsoft, applications, encryption, encryption keys, Microsoft platforms
IDG News Service - Microsoft has released Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0, a free tool that can help system administrators, IT security professionals or software developers understand how newly installed applications can affect the security of ...
Computerworld-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveiled the next version of Office as the company launched previews of the suite for consumers and businesses. "This is designed from the get-go for Office as a service,"said Ballmer as he ...
Tags: Microsoft, preview of new Office, service, Home Premium Preview
Just two weeks before researchers are to disclose bugs in Windows "gadgets" at Black Hat, Microsoft acknowledged unspecified security vulnerabilities in the small pieces of software supported by Vista and Windows 7. To deal with the ...
Windows 8,the next major upgrade of Microsoft's operating system for PCs,tablets and laptops,will be released to manufacturers in August and will ship commercially in October,the company announced on Monday. Microsoft had previously said ...
Tags: Windows 8, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer
Microsoft will support full upgrades to Windows 8 only from the three-year old Windows 7,according to a report Thursday. Yesterday,ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley,citing unnamed sources,said that Microsoft has informed select partners of ...