Tag: Microsoft

  • New Exploit Targets Older Versions of Internet Explorer

    Lawrence Walsh

    Categories:

    Symantec is reporting that older versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer are susceptible to a new attack against a vulnerability in its cascading style sheets (CSS). While a working exploit hasn’t been detected, Symantec suspects that it’s only a matter of time before hackers start actively using this new vulnerability with a full-functioning exploit.   According… Read more

  • Rackspace Expands SAAS Offerings to Include Online Storage

    Jessica Davis

    Categories: ,

    As software as a service has risen to gain the attention of more business customers and solution providers, plenty of service providers have cropped up with offerings that solution providers could private-label to their customers. Hosting provider Rackspace has been no exception, rolling out a hosted e-mail service and then a hosted Microsoft Exchange service.… Read more

  • Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure Cloud Platform

    Channel Insider Staff

    Categories: ,

    Microsoft will turn on its Windows Azure cloud platform as of January 1, 2010, said Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie in a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 here. In his speech on November 17, Ozzie said Microsoft would continue to offer Windows Azure as a Community Technology Preview (CTP)… Read more

  • Microsoft, IBM Prime for RFID`s Next Wave

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

    Categories:

    When it comes to RFID, the buzz has subsided and most budgets have dried up. Today, leery customers search first for RFID’s business impact. No brainer, right? Think back to 2004 and the budding RFID mania. Analysts and industry watchers sat perched on the edge of their chairs, watching and waiting for RFID adoption to… Read more

  • Microsoft, i365 Aim to Spoil Symantec`s Grip on Storage Protection Market

    Ericka Chickowski

    Categories: ,

    Microsoft and i365, the Seagate subsidiary built off its EVault acquisition, announced a partnership today for a new multi-platform, cloud-connected data protection solution they say will disrupt the midmarket in data backup and recovery and give Symantec a run for its money. The two companies are teaming up to extend the capabilities of Data Protection… Read more

  • Microsoft Lifts Covers on Exchange 2010

    Carolyn April

    Categories: ,

    At its TechEd Europe event in Berlin today, Microsoft officially released Exchange Server 2010, touting it as the first server in the Redmond portfolio developed from the ground up for both traditional on-premise and cloud-computing use cases. In his keynote, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop, who oversees Exchange as well as information worker technologies… Read more