Stuart J. Johnston

Microsoft snapped back Tuesday at a small security firm in the U.K. when it announced that recent patches to Windows are not the cause of a ‘black screen’ condition that some users appear to be encountering. In response, the U.K. firm, Prevx, which started the tale of woe with a blog post on Friday now, […]

Microsoft and Lockheed Martin have announced a deal to license the software titan’s simulation software — dubbed “ESP” — for use in the aerospace firm’s battle training simulations. The announcement of the strategic alliance between the two firms came at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC) this week in Orlando, Fla. Additionally, Lockheed […]

Sometimes, a patch can be almost as bad as the problem it fixes. That appears to be the case with problems that arose with Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) most recent set of bug patches, which for some users triggers a “black screen,” according to U.K. security firm Prevx. The security company posted a blog entry late […]

Microsoft is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the opening of its Silicon Valley campus, in the heart of the technology industry. Okay, so the campus first opened on October 4, 1999, but what’s important is that it’s become the company’s second-largest facility in the U.S., driven largely by the huge pool of technical talent located […]

Chris LiddellSource: Microsoft Microsoft said Tuesday that its Chief Financial Officer, Chris Liddell, is leaving the company after four and a half years — but his replacement is already waiting in the wings. He is to be replaced by a long-term Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) finance executive, Peter Klein, who joined the company in early 2002. […]

Microsoft confirmed late Monday that a zero-day security hole in older versions of Internet Explorer (IE) is a real threat that the company is taking seriously. The proof-of-concept code first appeared over the weekend, when it was posted anonymously on Symantec’s (NASDAQ: SYMC) popular BugTraq security mailing list. When the bug and proof-of-concept code to […]

Microsoft acknowledged Monday that it is evaluating an apparent zero-day bug in older versions of Internet Explorer, after an anonymous hacker posted proof-of-concept code online to exploit the hole. The exploit for the bug in Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) IE6 and IE7 browsers was posted on Symantec’s BugTraq bug database over the weekend, according to a […]

Even though Microsoft just shipped Windows 7 a month ago, company officials have apparently already started providing a roadmap to some partners that shows the next major release coming in 2012 or thereabouts. The story evidently emerged from private presentations during last week’s Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, according to […]

Microsoft said it is readying two new online services, and one updated online service, for its Dynamics Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package — all to debut next year. The company also said that its ERP hosting business has more than doubled in the past year as it moves more of its software and services business […]

Microsoft Friday denied rumors that have been circulating all week that it had put hidden “back doors” into Windows 7 at the federal government’s request. But that still leaves some wondering, who can you really trust? The rumors began Tuesday, when Richard Schaeffer, director of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Information Assurance Directorate told a […]

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Despite the fact that Microsoft recently posted its first declines in revenue and earnings in its history, stockholders today at the company’s annual shareholder meeting appeared forgiving. None of the audience harangued the company for not doing better in the current economy, although Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer took a defensive […]

October wasn’t the best of months for Yahoo search. According to analysis from Web tracking firm comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), the Web pioneer seems to caught in the crossfire between Google and Microsoft’s Bing. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) finished October with 65.4 percent of overall search market share. Bing, by comparison, reached 9.9 percent. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) […]