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Microsoft unleashes five service packs for its enterprise security wares

In the past week, Microsoft has unleashed five service packs for its enterprise class security software. These service packs include the beta 2 of its identity management framework "Geneva," the SP3 of Forefront Security for SharePoint, the SP2 of Forefront Security for Exchange Server and trial versions of Antigen Spam Manager for Exchange and Antigen for SMTP Gateways.

| News | Security | Software | 07/02/09 at 9:41 am |


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Microsoft to push IE8 at businesses next month

Microsoft will begin pushing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to enterprises next month, the company announced this week.

| News | Internet | Software | 07/01/09 at 12:00 pm |


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Microsoft Pushes IE8 With Ads That Are Actually Funny

Microsoft has done it again: The company has released another set of baffling and mystifying ads, but this time they're actually funny.

| Opinion | Internet | Offbeat | 06/30/09 at 11:36 am |


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First look: Microsoft Office 2010

Call it serendipity. As I was working through my review of OpenOffice.org 3.1 and SoftMaker Office 2008, an early version of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Office 2010 was conveniently leaked to the Internet. Sporting mostly incremental improvements, Office 2010 serves to bridge the gap between the Vista and Windows 7 eras by streamlining the product's controversial Ribbon-based user interface and extending it to encompass the full range of Office applications.

| Product review | Personal tech | Software | 06/30/09 at 11:23 am |


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