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Article | 11/03/2008 Group offers open source security code to Java developers

Open source identity community OpenLiberty.org Monday announced the release of open source code to help Java developers build privacy and security fea...

Article | 7/03/2008 Microsoft works toward a service-based identity platform

Microsoft is working on a series of upgrades to its directory and identity technologies in the coming months with the goal of creating a service-based...

Article | 29/02/2008 Gates shifts gears on LinkedIn

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has changed the question he will pose Thursday on the social-networking site LinkedIn from one that focuses on how techn...

Article | 27/02/2008 Hotmail, Windows Live back online, Microsoft says

Microsoft late Tuesday said it has cleared up what was a daylong outage and that all users have access again to Windows Live services that include Hot...

Article | 20/02/2008 Windows Server 2008 potholes snag Exchange

Users planning to run Microsoft Exchange on Windows Server 2008 and those contemplating in-place upgrades of the new server operating system coming ou...

Article | 12/02/2008 Microsoft ships 6 critical patches; 2 more could be serious

[[xref: http://www.microsoftsubnet.com|Microsoft]] Tuesday released 11 security patches, six with the highest rating of "critical" that span Windows, ...

Article | 6/02/2008 Microsoft fixing Vista SP1 flaw, release moved to mid-March

Microsoft Monday said Vista SP1 will not be available until mid-March because the company is working out issues with some device drivers that lose fun...

Article | 5/02/2008 Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 set to go

Microsoft Monday wrapped up work on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 and said both the server and client software will be generally available...

Article | 4/02/2008 FAQ: What does Microsoft's Yahoo purchase mean?

Microsoft Friday rocked the industry with its offer to buy Yahoo. Clearly, the battle lines against Google are poised to be redrawn, and other areas ...

Article | 24/01/2008 Lotus toys with Sametime features including virtual meetings

IBM/Lotus will crank up its Sametime lineup this year with two new editions -- plus the company is playing with next-generation features to see where ...

Article | 5/12/2007 Microsoft pulls plug on potty-mouth Santa

Microsoft cuts off Big Man after he starts talking about sex acts, using foul language

Article | 27/11/2007 Microsoft's new multicore-computing guru speaks out

Supercomputing expert Dan Reed, who saw the birth of the Web browser at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is joining Microsoft Research ...

Article | 7/11/2007 Visual Studio 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 to ship in November

Microsoft Monday said Visual Studio 2008 would ship by the end of November, along with the .Net Framework 3.5.

Article | 3/11/2007 Microsoft releases free tool to monitor voice quality

Microsoft has released a free module for its just released Office Communications Server 2007 that lets users troubleshoot voice quality issues by moni...

Article | 1/11/2007 Microsoft plots ambitious SOA roadmap

Microsoft this week laid out an ambitious SOA roadmap around a set of technologies code-named Oslo that will be blended into its middleware, developme...