Microsoft news from FierceCIO

Microsoft has announced the availability of SP1 for Windows 7, though I won't set my hopes too high. Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc wrote in a blog entry, "For Windows 7, SP1 includes only minor... Read more...

Sometimes organizations learn the hard way that they don't really know much about a major software program until after it is implemented. Fortunately, the five largest enterprise application vendors... Read more...

Microsoft Bing has been inching forward from 8.92 percent of the search market in December to 9.37 percent in January and 9.70 percent in February, says online traffic monitor Hitwise. While it is... Read more...

Microsoft has decided to discontinue the Windows Essential Business Server (EBS), to be effective June 30 this year. EBS shipped in November 2008, and is aimed toward businesses with between 250 to... Read more...

Rumors have it that Microsoft will be releasing the first service pack for the popular Windows 7 operating system toward the end of 2010, or about Q4 of this year. Using previous Windows releases as... Read more...

Google security software engineer Berend-Jan Wever has published proof-of-concept code on how to bypass Microsoft's data execution prevention technology, or DEP. First introduced in Windows XP... Read more...

A website that has made its mark revealing IT secrets has felt the heavy hand of Microsoft. Cryptome.org, a site that posts documents people want to keep secret, ran into trouble when it published a... Read more...

A new report by Janco Associates noted that Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has lost more than 12 percent of its market share since February 2007, courtesy of competing browsers like Firefox... Read more...

Microsoft is planning to invest heavily in its cloud platform, but doesn't expect a fast return, Bob Muglia, the president of the server and tools business, said during a conference call on Tuesday.... Read more...

Competition in the search engine world is about to get steeper and it may result in better, faster searches for users under a new agreement with Microsoft and Yahoo. The two companies received a... Read more...