Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report calls its latest OS the safest. Plus: phishers "like" social media, and scareware gets scarier.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/16/2011
The Test-Path cmdlet can keep you from going bonkers by offering a little bit of script pre-error-handling.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/16/2011
A final legal judgment against Microsoft, rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns, expired on May 12, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Wednesday.
Insights from a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer on how to identify poor disk performance conditions and how to communicate the problem to SAN administrators and vendors.
- By Clint Huffman
- 05/12/2011
Windows and IT security pros already are on edge each Patch Tuesday. Now there's a fake Patch Tuesday that could push them over. Plus: Tweaks to the Exploitability Index; DLL weakness report; improving Microsoft Security Essentials; more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/10/2011
Microsoft's May patch arrived as expected, with just two security bulletins, one deemed "critical" and one considered "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/10/2011
Skype will be sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion, according to an announcement by the company today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/10/2011
Automating SQL Server administration tasks is easy with PowerShell, especially with the SQL-related snapins.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/10/2011
Wordwide PC microprocessor shipment data looks to improve over the next few years, according to an IDC report released on Thursday.
Your skills working with Microsoft Hyper-V won't translate over to just any hypervisor. So, here's what you'll need to know to get up to speed with VMware's ESXi 4.
According to an announcement by Microsoft today, the release candidate (RC) version of its Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) solution is available to the public.
Manage the whole VMware infrastructure from PowerShell. Yes, you heard right; it can be done.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/02/2011
Microsoft works with other vendors on vulnerability disclosures, whether they like it or not. Plus: Hackers push Sony gamers offline; Kaspersky Labs wants kidnap rumors to die down.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/02/2011
The bookseller released a brief on Monday that outlines its legal defence against Microsoft's claims of patent infringement used in the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader series.
According to a recent poll by Unisys Corp., IT organizations appear to be dragging their feet on migrating to Window 7.
Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can't perform server virtualization using Intel's Core vPro processors -- unless SP1 is also applied.
PowerShell doesn't have tools to automate AD management, but some vendors have developed tools that can get you nearer to that goal.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/26/2011
Microsoft works with other vendors on vulnerability disclosures, whether they like it or not. Plus: Hackers push Sony gamers offline; Kaspersky Labs wants kidnap rumors to die down.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/26/2011
BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Learning Group announced $25 price increase for selected Microsoft exams in U.S., with similar increases for exams worldwide.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/22/2011
Microsoft assembled a panel of MVPs, product managers and consultants to prod XP user to move to Windows 7.