As part of a company-wide shift toward cloud computing, Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs worldwide with plans to create new cloud-focused positions down the road, according to various reports. Read the rest here: Microsoft cuts jobs as part of core shift to cloud computing  Read More →

A newly formed gang of rogue security researchers calling itself MSRC (Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective) has announced it will publicize any Windows vulnerabilities it finds, rather than reporting them privately to Microsoft for the company to patch. Read more from the original source: Security researchers wage war on Microsoft  Read More →

Nearly a month after a Google engineer released details of a new Windows XP flaw, criminals have dramatically ramped up online attacks that leverage the bug. More here: Microsoft: 10,000 PCs hit with new XP zero-day attack  Read More →

Most of us by now are familiar with all the obviously new parts of Office 2010 , such as the revised Ribbon , the Backstage document view , Paste preview , and Originally posted here: More great Office 2010 features for business  Read More →

The core idea behind PowerPivot is deceptively simple: Since people use Excel as a generic data analysis tool, why not make Excel into a front end for data analysis from any number of sources, not just the app itself? This way, they don’t have to learn an entirely new program; they can leverage all the skills and habits they’ve built up with Excel. The end result is PowerPivot, and I see... 

Three out of four companies will soon face more security risks because they continue to run the soon-to-be-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), a report published today claimed. According to Toronto, Canada-based technology provider Softchoice, 77 percent of the organizations it surveyed are running Windows XP SP2 on 10 percent or more of their PCs. Nearly 46 percent of the 280,000 business computers... 

It’s that time of year again. TechEd 2010 is being held this week in New Orleans, and Microsoft has used it to give IT a preview of where its enterprise platforms are heading in the near term. For those of you not at the conference with me, here’s what you should know. View post: Microsoft’s server road map: Top 5 developments coming soon  Read More →

Microsoft and third-party security experts warned that users could be subjected to drive-by downloads because of flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer that received fixes on Patch Tuesday this week. Here is the original: Microsoft warns of drive-by downloads on Patch Tuesday  Read More →

On the first day of TechEd here in New Orleans, Microsoft Server and Tools Division President Bob Muglia used the his keynote speech to share the event’s most anticipated announcement: Service Pack 1 for More: SP1 for Windows Server 2008 geared for cloud computing  Read More →

If a report is accurate and Google is urging its workers to dump Windows because of security concerns, the company’s rationale is bogus and disingenuous, analysts said today. The experts were reacting to a story published Monday on the Financial Times’ Web site that cited several unnamed Google employees who said the company is phasing out the use of Microsoft’s Windows operating...