Microsoft news from Network World

Microsoft tops $60 billion in annual revenue

John Fontana — 2008-07-17T00:00:00Z

Microsoft Thursday announced it has topped $60 billion in yearly revenue for the first time in its history and posted a 25% year-over-year gain in net income for its fiscal year 2008.

Microsoft's online service push has holes

John Fontana — 2008-07-10T00:00:00Z

Microsoft's plunge into the hosting arena isn't sending shock waves through partners who welcome the visibility the move brings but say many corporate users will find the Exchange and SharePoint services fall short of the mark.

Microsoft sets key piece of identity puzzle

John Fontana — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

Microsoft Wednesday released a beta of its most important tool to date for helping developers build applications that can plug into the company's Identity Metasystem and provide what amounts to a re-usable identity service for securing network resources.

Microsoft issues four patches, none critical

John Fontana — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday on July 8 was relatively easy for corporate users, going off without a critical patch and only four vulnerabilities listed as "important."

Microsoft cracks down on certification exam cheating

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

Microsoft is tackling certification exam cheating in a big way, with harsher penalties and a data forensics program that can find cheaters through statistical analysis of their exams.

Microsoft reveals service bundles, pricing

John Fontana — 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z

Microsoft Tuesday finally showed how it will price online services, including Exchange and SharePoint, and how it will share revenue with partners.

Alliance to promote Windows-managed Macs in enterprise

John Fontana — 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

A group of five vendors has formed an alliance to help push Macintosh desktops into managed Windows environments on corporate networks.

Autonomy, Endeca rate among top enterprise search vendors

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

The best enterprise search products on the market come from Autonomy, Endeca, the Microsoft subsidiary Fast and Vivisimo, but Google’s Search Appliance continues to dominate the market in terms of brand awareness and sheer number of customers, Forrester Research says in a new report.

Cisco, IBM, Intel, Juniper and Microsoft fight cyber terror together

Tim Greene — 2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

Five major network hardware, software and services vendors are banding together to improve IT security by promoting faster responses to threats.

Microsoft ships Hyper-V

John Fontana — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

Microsoft Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five year in the making and is a major play in the company's march toward services-based computing.

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2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

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