Tag: Microsoft

  • Fathi Reshuffled Out of Microsoft Security Chief Role

    Fathi Reshuffled Out of Microsoft Security Chief Role

    Ryan Naraine

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    For the second time this year, a major management reshuffle at Microsoft has sent ripples through the software maker’s security unit. Just seven months after tapping Ben Fathi to head up the newly formed STU (security technology unit), the Redmond, Wash. company announced that Fathi would move over to manage a Windows Core System development… Read more

  • Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division

    Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions. The software giant is also making changes on the security front by bringing its security, Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence teams together in one group,… Read more

  • Microsoft to PC Buyers: Don’t Wait for Vista

    Microsoft to PC Buyers: Don’t Wait for Vista

    Darryl K. Taft

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    NEW YORK—If you are contemplating a PC purchase but concerned about waiting for Windows Vista, don’t wait, said Microsoft officials at the DigitalLife conference here. G. Michael Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows Client marketing at Microsoft, opened the DigitalLife conference on Oct. 12 with a keynote in which he laid out the company’s plans… Read more

  • Microsoft Goes After Adobe

    Microsoft Goes After Adobe

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Formerly noncommittal Microsoft has come out swinging in relation to Adobe Systems with a video that compares Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 to Adobe’s Dreamweaver 8. However, it’s something of an apples-to-pears or an oranges-to-lemons comparison, in that Visual Studio is an all-purpose integrated development environment and Dreamweaver, although it has IDE capabilities, is primarily known… Read more

  • Technical Hiccup Delays Microsoft Patches

    Technical Hiccup Delays Microsoft Patches

    Matt Hines

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    Microsoft was unable to offer immediate access to its monthly collection of security patches as a result of a procedural issue in distributing the content to users Oct. 10. While the company appears to have remedied the situation, at the time that the security fixes were first released the software giant was forced to inform… Read more

  • Microsoft Services Chief Resigns

    Microsoft Services Chief Resigns

    John Hazard

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    Rick Devenuti, Microsoft’s services chief, announced his retirement Oct. 11. Devenuti, senior vice president, Microsoft Enterprise Services & IT since 2003, is stepping down to spend more time with his family and focus on “his next challenge,” Microsoft officials said in a statement. He is 48 years old. No successor has been identified, but one… Read more