Stuart J. Johnston

As Microsoft brings its Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 offerings to market, it’s going after enterprise IT buyers with a series of new features. The latest version of the SharePoint collaboration server, for instance, enables concurrent document coauthoring through the Office productivity suite. Similarly, Office Web Apps can edit documents on SharePoint sites on systems […]

You can lead a horse to water but can’t make it drink. Well, you can’t make people follow you on Twitter, either. Or can you? A bug was uncovered today that would let you force someone on Twitter to follow you, even if they didn’t want to. The site that found it is no stranger […]

The so-called consumerization of IT trend has seen social networks and other collaborative technologies increasingly find their way into the enterprise. While many companies welcome improved collaboration as a means to more streamlined communications and increased productivity, gains can quickly be undone by security mishaps. eSecurityPlanet reports on Microsoft’s latest moves to make its popular […]

Microsoft’s latest, albeit belated effort to make an impact in the exploding smartphone market took flight this week when it finally made its Kin One and Kin Two smartphones available for online pre-sale through Verizon. However, as Enterprise Mobile Today points out, Microsoft’s plan to engage and hopefully profit from younger consumers who want all […]

It’s a Microsoft tradition. The second Tuesday of every month means a bunch of bug fixes. Some months are big, others small. The last few months had very large numbers, but this time around, it will be minor. Only two ‘critical’ fixes, the most important kind, are expected. Of course, that could change between now […]

Microsoft is ratcheting up the effort behind Internet Explorer 9. Though it’s not even in beta testing yet, the upcoming browser is already available for an early look in a version dubbed Platform Preview 2. Key to the new release is expanded Acid 3 compatibility — a high score on which is a way to […]

As cybercriminals grow in number and sophistication, Microsoft thinks it’s time for government and industry to rethink their approach to the problem. Scott Charney, the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing division, has offered up a new blueprint for defining and responding to cybercrime. Charney places a particular emphasis on attribution, and calls for […]

It seems a week doesn’t go by in the highly-competitive smartphone market without another new device being released. Apple, Research In Motion (RIM), Android devices and a host of others, including Microsoft, are ramping their efforts to win consumer and corporate sales. As EnterpriseMobileToday reports, Microsoft promised to release its new Kin smartphone this month […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to be the dominant Web browser, but new stats find that its lead continues to erode among users worldwide. That’s according to Net Applications, which said that Google’s Chrome is seeing the strongest growth among popular browsers. And while Mozilla Firefox has been chiefly responsible for cutting into IE’s lead in […]

It doesn’t have a patch ready yet, but Microsoft hastened to warn customers about a new flaw in its SharePoint collaboration server. The software giant has issued a Security Advisory about the code outlining a zero-day vulnerability in SharePoint that has been circulating on the Web. While the security threat doesn’t affect Office SharePoint 2010, […]

Microsoft’s technical conferences are massive undertakings designed to help the software colossus bring its customers, developers and system integrator partners up to speed on new and upcoming technology. But with the most recent WinHEC taking a powder, all eyes had been on the next Windows Summit as the locale at which Microsoft gave developers and […]

With Apple gearing up to launch the still-rumored iPad, Microsoft was reported to be pursuing a tablet of its own, featuring a dual-screen, book-like design. Those reports have since been proven true, with Microsoft testing what it referred to internally as “Courier.” But now, before the product even made its way out of its earliest […]