beta news from FierceCIO
News
Microsoft unveils Office 2010 ship date, talks about Office Web
Just weeks after the release of Office 2010 Beta, Microsoft has finally confirmed that Office 2010 will be shipping in the middle of 2010. In addition, Microsoft also reaffirmed earlier plans to... Read more...
Microsoft Security Essentials arriving 'in weeks'
It has been revealed that Microsoft's Microsoft Security Essential (MSE) could be released in a matter of weeks. The replacement for Windows Live OneCare, MSE will focus on key security tasks such as... Read more...
New open-source management software community
Commercial vendors and open-source supporters are launching a new community devoted to free software monitoring tools and applications. MonitoringForge.org launched its site on Tuesday in beta. It... Read more...
Microsoft confirms that Windows 7 will arrive this year
Microsoft has officially confirmed that it will be releasing the Windows 7 operating system this year--and in time for the holiday shopping season. This is in contrast to the company's initial,... Read more...
Microsoft: Windows 7 will do less nagging
Paul Cooke, director of Windows 7 client enterprise security, has stepped forward to promise that Windows 7 will feature fewer alerts originating from User Account Control. UAC was designed to... Read more...
IE 8: Microsoft's last browser release?
Rumor has it that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 could be Microsoft's last IE release. That's the news that has been circulating in recent days, and the prospect has some in the FOSE community all... Read more...
Microsoft patches Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 Beta
Microsoft has released an update for the beta of Windows 7, directly addressing compatibility and reliability issues related to Internet Explorer 8. This update came about as a result of user... Read more...
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization goes into beta
In a bid to address one of the chief complaints about Windows Vista, Microsoft has released the first beta of a tool called the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). The role of MED-V... Read more...
Former Cisco engineers readies 'firewall killer'
On the premises that traditional firewalls are no longer adequate, five formal Cisco engineers have co-founded a start-up called Rohati Systems to offer more
... Read more...Parallels adds Leopard Server support
Virtualization has led to huge energy and hardware savings in a number of large enterprises and that includes Mac shops as well. After all, OS X applications like Paralells Desktop and VMWare
... Read more...