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Fourteen September bulletins means lots of work for administrators For sheer volume of bulletins – 14 – Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month will prove onerous, with one critically important set of patches aimed to fix flaws in all versions of the Internet Explorer browser that can result in remote code […]
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New OS gains 2.5 points in August, second-largest one-month jump by a Microsoft operating system Microsoft got some good news Sunday as metrics company Net Applications said Windows 8’s user share in August is now larger than Vista’s at the same point in the latter’s post-launch timeline. Windows 8’s user […]
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VP of Android mgmt. Hugo Barra headed from Google to Xiaomi – but why? And just like that, Google I/O 2014 will be a different show – vice president of Android product management Hugo Barra abruptly announced that he’ll be leaving Google in “a few weeks” to join Chinese phone […]
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Also: Is Windows 8 TPM security an NSA back door? Even though Windows 8 incited hordes to call for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s ouster, the operating system is not what he regrets most about his 33-year tenure at the company. That distinction falls to one of Microsoft’s other operating systems, […]
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Reaction to news of Microsoft CEO’s forthcoming retirement unsurprisingly noisy, contentious. The Internet reacted to the news that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans to retire within 12 months as might have been expected – with a flurry of jeers, opprobrium and the occasional heartfelt farewell. “Retirement! Retirement, retirement, retirement!” japed […]
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He has been in hot water over a variety of issues, including Microsoft’s position in the tablet market An accumulation of perceived missteps under Steve Ballmer’s leadership may have hit a tipping point this year, leading to Friday’s groundshaking announcement that Bill Gates’ former right hand and heir, as well […]
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After a 30-year run, once dominant server OS gets 86ed by x86es Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and […]
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Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal? Microsoft and Oracle announced a wide-ranging partnership deal in late June. At first glance, the logic behind it was fairly baffling. The agreement lets Oracle customers run its software-including Java, Oracle Database and WebLogic Server-on Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, in its Azure […]
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Riverbed executive outlines how the company has put together a parcel of tools focused on improving IT resource performance. In an IT organization you’ll often end up with four silos, each of which has their own tools that do a great job of proving problems are not their fault. This […]