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Microsoft posts preview of ASP.Net MVC 3
Microsoft is readying an update to its ASP.Net MVC (Model View Controller) technology for Web application development, leveraging the company’s new “Razor” view engine and offering enhancements for JavaScript.
Microsoft calls for ‘coordinated disclosure’ of bugs
It wasn’t long ago that we were reading about the air war between Microsoft and Google over a vulnerability disclosure from a Google employee, Tavis Ormandy, that affected
Microsoft signs big licensing deal for Arm chip technology
Microsoft signed a new agreement to license technology for the Arm microprocessor architecture, opening the potential for the software giant to follow in Apple’s footsteps and design its own Arm-based chips.
Apple money machine trounces Microsoft — and hints at more to come
Apple really is the king. The company’s revenue in the just-reported June quarter was an astonishing $15.7 billion, well above what Wall Street expected and likely somewhat higher than what Microsoft will report on Thursday. I want to underline that de…
Windows Phone 7: Don’t bother with this disaster
There’s no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7 will be a failure. Announced to much bravado in February as the platform that would breathe life into Microsoft’s mobile ambitions, Windows Phone 7 looked based on very early previews as if it might bring …
InfoWorld review: Microsoft ADFS 2.0 and Forefront Identity Manager 2010
Managing user access in businesses today is something like playing traffic cop in an intersection of a thousand roads. From Web-based applications to homegrown programs, from desktop PCs to the latest crop of smartphones, IT has to be able to control a…
Microsoft: 10,000 PCs hit with new XP zero-day attack
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.
Windows Phone 7 in trouble? MeeGo DOA?
If I believed in conspiracy theories, I’d say that Windows Phone 7 is a failure six months before its expected availability. And the Nokia-Intel MeeGo operating system will be dead on arrival, if it’s ever released.
Businesses face security ‘red alert’ as XP SP2′s retirement looms
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 Softchoice analyzed rely on the aged operating system.
Microsoft’s embarrassing problem with the future
If you haven’t noticed, Microsoft has done a pretty good job with its core products lately: Windows 7, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/test-center-preview-windows-server-2008-r2-298" targe