Stuart J. Johnston

Central Desktop has built its business with a cloud-based collaboration platform. Now, it’s extending that solution to provide compatibility for the applications in Microsoft’s popular Office suite. The new Central Desktop for Office product offers cloud-based storage and collaboration features built on its existing SaaS product, and adds a toolbar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint […]

Don’t think Microsoft is resting on its laurels. The company has plenty of challenges ahead, particularly as it tries to resurrect its sputtering mobile business. But the company’s business software is so well-established that it’s easy to think of it more as “steady” than a high growth opportunity. Datamation reports on why Microsoft is bullish […]

Microsoft offered fixes for a handful of security vulnerability this month with one of the largest Patch Tuesday releases in the company’s history. One of the “critical” patches fixed a flaw that had been lingering for more than half a year. With its latest security release, Microsoft has offered a fix for a flaw in […]

It’s almost graduation time for IE9. Next month, Microsoft is planning to take the wraps off of the beta version of Internet Explorer 9, the latest iteration of its market-leading Web browser. But IE has fallen on hard times of late. Competitors such as Firefox have chipped away at its market share, though Microsoft argues […]

A good IT department works diligently to prepare for the inevitable outages, bugs, security flaws and other issues that can keep operations from running smoothly. IT vendors also offer support and service level agreements (SLA)s that guarantees a high level of availability. And while IT can’t prepare for every contingency, enterprises want to be sure […]

Patch Tuesday could become a week-long affair for IT administrators charged with installing more than a dozen patches to lock down more than 30 serious vulnerabilities. As eSecurity Planet reports, the fixes represent one of the largest monthly security tune-ups in company history. Microsoft sent out an advance notification last Thursday warning staff with responsibilities […]

What’s old is new again, it would seem. At least in the world of Microsoft security. The software giant is looking into yet another zero-day vulnerability that reportedly affects all supported versions of Windows. The vulnerability was made public by Danish security firm Secunia, which identified it as a buffer-overflow exploit. As it moves ahead […]

Polycom is celebrating a major new partnership with Microsoft, one that it says should give it a greater foothold in the enterprise, SMB and government markets. Building on Microsoft’s forthcoming Communications Server 14, Polycom is planning to bring to market integrated unified communications solutions over the next year and a half that marry Polycom’s conferencing […]

Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform is building a bridge to other leading online services, offering single-sign-on capabilities that will support a federated identity regime. With the announcement, the Windows AppFabric Access Control Service will support credentials from leading Web identity providers such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo, as well as OpenID. Datamation has the details. Microsoft […]

Even before their tit-for-tat patent lawsuits, Microsoft and Salesforce.com were already on a collision course. On one side, a scrappy player looking to take on established names in deployed enterprise software with its promise of delivering CRM and other applications cheaply and effectively via the cloud. On the other, a massive force in software, looking […]

Windows is again the key focus as Microsoft gears up for the August release of its monthly Patch Tuesday updates, targeting vulnerabilities chiefly in the operating system. Even before today’s advance warning on Tuesday’s workload, August had already proven a busy month for IT security administrators thanks to Microsoft. Earlier week, the company released a […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is starting to take shape. The company has begun shipping the fourth and final technology preview of the new browser, and intends to start beta testing next month. To date, the three prior technology previews had been downloaded 2.5 million times. Microsoft has been trying to seed the early versions across […]