Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange went offline for a few hours on Wednesday across North America.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/22/2011
Called "one of the biggest changes ever to the Domain Name System," the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced it approved a a plan to expand the number of generic Top Level Domains used in online addresses yesterday at its opening of its 41st annual meeting, being held in Singapore.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2011
Two infamous hacker groups, LulzSec and Anonymous, have released a statement that it will be targeting government and large corporation Web sites for the sole purpose of obtaining classified and private information. It also calls individuals to join in on the attacks.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/20/2011
Even though Microsoft's Internet Explorer is on the decline among users, Windows 7 has more than doubled over the past year, according to a Forrester Research study published this month.
The trick to making functions act like cmdlets? It's all in the binding.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/20/2011
The company says the 3D Web standard is a security risk. Plus: Hackers breach Sega's database, resulting in the loss of customer data; Symnatec warns of online currency scam; Attackers taking to the phones to get you to install malware.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/20/2011
Microsoft today noted the one-year anniversary of the release of Office 2010, calling it the "fastest selling version ever."
Government officials are predicting that a future attack on the U.S. may happen in cyberspace. Plus: Evaluating the security landscape, Windows malware threats becoming sophisticated, anti-span suite helps avoid user interaction with possible phishing threats.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/14/2011
Today Windows security released the June patch that features 16 bulletins: nine "critical" and seven marked "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/14/2011
Turn any command-line tool into a PowerShell tool.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/14/2011
The market research firm now sees dip in PC shipments due to shifts in consumer spending.
After a disastrous 2009, security software companies see sales making a comeback.
Windows IT pros can expect a full slate of fixes for June, if the advance notification for this month's security update is any indication.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/09/2011
Microsoft announced that its Windows Thin PC solution has reached its release-to-manufacturing milestone, with general availability expected on July 1.
Fujitsu's Japanese datacenter will begin to offer commercial cloud services, based on Microsoft's Windows Azure platform, in August.
Red can be disturbing at times, so let's change the color of the PowerShell console so it looks less aggressive when you chance upon the rare error.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/06/2011
Increased attacks are being both staged and carried out on some of the Web's most popular e-mail sites. Plus: U.S. gets serious on cyber threats, Syria blocks Internet access.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/06/2011
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012, Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 both out in beta format.
Check out these Automatic Variables that are defined by PowerShell with every new session.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/02/2011
Code-named "Windows 8," Microsoft's upcoming operating system was shown off Wednesday at the D9 Conference.