Tag: Microsoft

  • Google Revamps Search Engine for Real Time

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google’s flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a partnership to license… Read more

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Takes On VMware on Virtualization: Will the Mighty Fall?

    Jessica Davis

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    On the surface, VMware’s unshakable stronghold in the enterprise so far seems unchallenged by the likes of virtualization alternatives from vendors such as Citrix and Microsoft. But although VMware ranked top among best vendors in TheInfoPro’s most recent survey of IT leaders at about 300 enterprises, there is just the barest hint that Microsoft may… Read more

  • Busted: Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Blitz

    Steve Wexler

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    Claiming a more than 100 percent increase in reports from people who unknowingly purchased counterfeit software, Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) has announced Consumer Action Day, a simultaneous launch of education initiatives and enforcement actions in more than 70 countries to “help protect consumers and increase awareness of the risks of counterfeit software.” The company reports more… Read more

  • Microsoft Updates Endpoint Forefront Products

    Carolyn April

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    Microsoft updated two endpoint security products in the Forefront family this week, as it continues to position security as not only a means of protecting assets but of allowing companies and their employees to get their jobs done. Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 acts as a Web security gateway and is an upgrade from a… Read more

  • Microsoft Says Security Updates Not Causing ‘Black Screen of Death’

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it could find no evidence that recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some have dubbed the "black screen of death." The problem, which has caused a small number of users to see a completely black screen after logging on, was… Read more

  • Microsoft CFO Liddell to Leave Company

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company. Liddell, 51, has been CFO at the world’s largest software company since May 2005, after joining from paper and packaging maker International Paper… Read more