Andy Patrizio

Microsoft’s next scheduled monthly patch update is Tuesday, June 13, and with it will come a number of security fixes for Windows as well as updates to other Microsoft products. The update will feature nine Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows, at least one of which is critical. One patch will change how Internet Explorer […]

Windows Server and Linux are growing up fast, but they still aren’t a match for the solid, stable Unix systems on the high-end of the server scale. That’s the conclusion of a report from The Yankee Group, which released it 2006 Global Server Reliability Survey on Wednesday. The report compared a number of server operating […]

McAfee today announced four new security service suites as part of the Falcon family of products, which provides a more user-friendly interface to McAfee’s product line, plus a subscription model. At the same time, the company snapped up an intrusion prevention and compliance testing firm for its business customers. The company picked up Preventsys, a […]

While there has been no formal announcement, Microsoft has confirmed to internetnews.com that there will be a third beta of Internet Explorer 7. Planned for August, the third beta will test all of the new technologies and standards being added to IE 7, as well as bug fixes found in the first two betas. The […]

There may be a lot of question marks hovering over Sun Microsystems these days, but its dedication to AJAX isn’t in doubt. The company has just appointed Greg Murray its AJAX Architect, making him the company’s chief cheerleader and evangelist for AJAX technology. Murray is also the lead for Project jMaki, which allows Java developers […]

Microsoft is launching a new community designed for a job title of rising importance: the architect. The goal of Skyscrapr is pretty straightforward, said Norman Guadagno, group manager of Microsoft’s developer and partner evangelism architecture strategy team. It is to get people informed around and empowered about architecture. It is also dedicated to developing a […]

Even though he was adamantly against any layoffs, Sun Microsystems’s new CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced today the company plans a net reduction in headcount of between 4,000 to 5,000 positions. That would be an 11 to 13 percent reduction in the company’s worldwide headcount of 37,500. The cuts would come in what he dubbed “non-core” […]

Would-be identity thieves have turned loose another sneaky means for stealing users’ personal information. It comes in the form of a fraudulent e-mail pretending to be from Microsoft that suckers users into installing a key logger. SophosLabs, the virus analysis center for antivirus vendor Sophos, put out the warning on Tuesday about the letter, with […]

Microsoft is broadening its Visual Studio 2005 Team System line. A new client designed specifically for database programmers and administrators provides them with the same version control and management tools most programmers use. The Team System line consists of four products – Software Architect, Software Developer, Software Tester and Project Manager. All work with Team […]

Mainsoft is the latest development firm to offer a bridge between the worlds of Microsoft’s .Net framework and Sun Microsystems’ Java environment. The developer tools company has come out with a set of extensions to run .Net applications on IBM’s WebSphere Portal server. Mainsoft has updated its Visual MainWin for J2EE and released it as […]

Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Devices (MED) Group has partnered with WindowsForDevices.com to co-promote a developer contest using new technologies in Microsoft’s Windows CE software. The challenge of the contest is to create an application with some kind of real-world application using one of two newly released Shared Source components — the Windows CE WebCam driver […]

IBM is offering a helping hand to a remote corner of the globe, but it might not be the first region that comes to mind. The area IBM is helping is in rural Appalachia, right here in the United States. The computing giant has partnered with the Appalachian College Association (ACA), a group of 35 […]