Stuart J. Johnston

One would think Microsoft has a vested interest in seeing net neutrality become the law of the land. Or at least the policy. It has a number of online projects in the works and relies on people having an unfettered connection to the net, rather than having to keep paying for more time and bandwidth. […]

Microsoft has long offered an embedded operating system for a variety of tech devices that hide their underlying operating system from the user. Just nine months following the release of Windows 7, to positive reviews, Microsoft has brought its embedded OS in line with the release of Windows Embedded 7. Windows Embedded has long been […]

The bad news? Incidents of malware continues to increase. The good news? Free software scanning tools are helping to detect and clean users’ systems automatically. That’s the upshot of the latest Security Intelligence Report from Microsoft, which described a significant increase in the number of infected PCs over the course of 2009. eSecurity Planet takes […]

For years, power home users had to improvise making their own servers, so Microsoft finally came out with a special version of Windows two years ago, dubbed Home Server. Since then there hasn’t been much activity, mostly because Microsoft had its hands full with Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. But now, Microsoft has a […]

The global economy might not be exactly humming as well as IT firms would like, but this year figures to see a return to spending among small and midsized businesses. That’s according to a recent survey of more than 500 of Microsoft’s Small Business Specialist partners, which say they expect 63 percent of their SMB […]

Small and midsize businesses looking to test and fix Windows 7 issues without springing for Professional XP Mode just received some welcome news. That’s because Microsoft has forged an alliance with ChangeBase, and application-compatibility tool vendor, to offer SMBs an appliance that automatically tests their applications and fixes buggy code. Small Business Computing takes a […]

Even before Microsoft launched Windows 7 as the successor to Windows Vista (and Windows XP, Vista’s popular predecessor,) expectations had been high among industry-watchers about how long enterprise adoption would take. Conventional wisdom has it that many IT shops prefer a “wait and see” approach — delaying until at least the first Service Pack is […]

What a difference a product release makes. Windows 7 has been given high marks by reviewers and customers alike and it is quickly picking up the slack from the maligned Windows Vista. Strong sales for Windows 7 can only mean one thing: big earnings for Microsoft However, Microsoft’s outstanding third calendar quarter was not limited […]

Microsoft’s cloud-based strategy continues to mature, with the latest offering being cloud-based system management. After all, if the goal is to reduce tying one particular task to one specific machine, then where better to implement it than system’s management? Microsoft Intune allows admins to manage computers from any location instead of forcing them to be […]

Microsoft has always had the challenge of offering support for its products to consumers and businesses alike. With so many millions of customers, anything the company can do to cut down on support services is in its own interests as much as it is for customers. Last year, Microsoft introduced the ‘Fix-It Button’ for individuals […]

Good news! More evidence emerges that salaries for IT jobs are ticking their way back up, according to new data from tech employment tracker Glassdoor, which looked at where the highest-paying jobs are located who some of the highest-paying companies are, too. Perhaps not surprisingly, the San Francisco Bay and Seattle areas remain the highest-paying […]

Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is getting expanded to reach a host of new potential users this week. The cloud-based software — which contains some of Microsoft’s most popular business software, like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting — will be extended to users in more countries. They’ll also […]