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Microsoft Windows chief decries standards grandstanding

Los Angeles – Microsoft will be compliant with industry standards in Internet Explorer 9 such as HTML 5, but Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live division, decried the habit of vendors getting ahead of the process. "We are not ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft touches on cloud management system

Microsoft System Center "Cloud" management will hit beta in 2010 LOS ANGELES –Almost as a forgotten footnote, Microsoft introduced System Center "Cloud" Tuesday providing little detail other than a name on a slide during the opening keynote of the ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Gartner, Inc.,  BMC Software, Inc.

Microsoft's new lab pushes social networking boundaries

DENVER -- Microsoft's Lili Cheng's passion is making things that solve real problems, so as the leader of the company's new FUSE Labs she fully expects to blur the line between pure research and product development. In fact, after only a month with its ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Twitter Inc,  Ray Ozzie

Microsoft: Win7 tool includes GPL code; software will go open source

Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code. To correct the error, the company next week will make the source code and binaries for the tool available under terms of the GPL v2 ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Windows exploit code coming

As Microsoft recommends that users focus first on installing the MS09-065 patch released Tuesday, experts are agreeing with that advice because exploit code for remote execution appears to be right around the corner. The current proof-of-concept (POC) ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Symantec,  Jason Miller

Patch Tuesday: What the experts say

Microsoft Tuesday released six patches that address 15 vulnerabilities. Here's a look at what security experts are saying about the vulnerabilities, patches and what should concern users. "There are three vulnerabilities this month that target a ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Jason Miller,  Symantec

Novell adds debugger to Mono to help Windows apps get to Linux

Novell Tuesday released a Mono-based plug-in for Visual Studio that gives developers a debugger to help them use Windows to design applications that will run on Linux. In addition, Novell is integrating its Suse Studio Online, which lets users build ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Miguel de Icaza

Microsoft Exchange set; SharePoint, OCS to follow

Microsoft Monday shipped the final release of Exchange 2010, ushering in not so much the latest version of its messaging server but the first updated piece of its unified communications and collaboration platform. The release was no surprise, given the ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Subaru

Open source software ready for big business

The combination of pumped-up technical features and relatively low prices are giving vendors with open source-based products more inroads to corporate networks than ever before. "In the dot-com bust it was Unix to Linux migration because Linux was ...

From JOHN FONTANA, NetworkWorld,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Oracle,  Yahoo!,  Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.

Cloud computing inevitable? Not so fast, educator says

Network World - DENVER -- Is cloud computing inevitable? Maybe, but IT still has a lot of questions to ask before floating away on its promises, according to Melissa Woo, director of cyberinfrastructure and network and operations services at the ...

From JOHN FONTANA, ComputerWorld,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.,  University of Wisconsin,  Microsoft Corporation,  T-Mobile

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