Stuart J. Johnston

Microsoft started shipping its first significant update to Windows Phone 7. The update provides WP7 phones with a copy and paste function, as well as simpler navigation of Microsoft’s apps marketplace and improved app performance. When Windows Phone 7 made its debut, developers and users complained that the mobile operating system lacked multi-tasking for apps […]

Microsoft’s cloud-based online system management tools have exited testing and will be officially released today at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Intune was intended to give small and medium-sized companies access to enterprise-class system management tools via the cloud, and with an attractive price tag. The company began beta testing […]

Microsoft announced that Wednesday, it successfully shut down another giant botnet that’s been spreading malware around the Web with the aid of perhaps as many as a million corrupted PCs. The takedown of the latest botnet, known as Rustock, was similar to the Waledac botnet that the company helped bring down last year, according to […]

Enthusiasm for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is running so high that IE9 was downloaded more than 2.3 million times in the first 24 hours it was available, according to a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) blog post. “[That] is over double the 1 million downloads we saw of the IE9 Beta and four times that of the […]

In its report, “Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments, Q1 2011,” Forrester Research says that the use of virtual server technologies took off over the past year, proving that that virtualization has finally past the point where it’s mainly used in testing and development roles. In fact, 91 percent of respondents told Forrester researchers that […]

Microsoft has a major hole in its Windows 7 strategy. It doesn’t support custom-built applications made to run on the company’s aging Internet Explorer 6, but now some former employees think they’ve got a solution. The startup is named Browsium, and its first product is named UniBrows, which the company says will run those IE6 […]

In two decades, the Web has completely changed many industries. No sector has experienced as much of an impact as sales and marketing. Consumers today frequently browse for the best deals online and purchase products using their mobile devices. According to IBM, 70 percent of customers have their first experience with a product or service […]

SGI announced Tuesday that Microsoft has certified its Altix UV server as the largest and most powerful instance of a high-performance computing (HPC) system running Windows 2008 R2 for x86 to date. In fact, SGI’s (NASDAQ: SGI) Altix UV Intel Xeon processor-driven system has been certified by Microsoft, to support 128 cores and 1 TB […]

Though the majority of users installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) are having no problems, a small group is reporting that they’re receiving fatal errors and other hiccups during the update. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) issued the update late last month — after beta testing SP1 since July, the final code was released Feb. 22 […]

PC sales are growing worldwide and there’s a changing of the guard near the top spot. HP (NYSE: HPQ) continued to boast the top spot in the latest PC sales report from IHS iSuppli for the fourth quarter of 2010, but Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) jumped back into second place, edging out Acer which fell to […]

As companies in Japan begin to dig out from the damage done by the largest earthquake the island nation has ever experienced, analysts are already assessing the impacts it may have on the country’s technology industry. The 8.9 magnitude quake that struck Friday had its epicenter some 231 miles northeast of Tokyo off the coast […]

Microsoft is again trying to ease the path for IT managers to press ahead with the migration to Windows 7. The software giant has begun shipping two updated tools within its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) that offer support for virtualizing applications in Windows. The tools, dubbed App-V 4.6 and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) […]