After devoting the first day of this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) to the client, Windows 7, day two was centered around Windows Server 2008 R2. It might seem remarkable that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has a second service pack

It may not be as sexy or as urgently needed as Windows 7, but Microsoft's server operating system took center stage on day two of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) with some pretty big news announcements. The company

Developers at the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) not only got their hands on the latest builds of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, they also got community technical previews of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. The CTPs of Visual

Windows 7 isn't the only product making its debut in this red carpet town. Microsoft is announcing Office Web applications, lightweight versions of its main Office applications that will run in any Web browser. The news comes during day two

With Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference just days away, so is the arrival of Windows 7. The pre-release test release of Microsoft's next version of Windows, will undoubtedly be the most sought-after item in the goodie bag of freebies that

Microsoft is rushing out an emergency security fix outside of its regular patch schedule for Windows users. Microsoft posted the fix at 10 a.m. Pacific time today. It applies to all versions of Windows, from Windows 2000 up to Windows Server 2008.

Further upping the ante in its war with VMware for the virtualization market, Microsoft today confirmed that System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008, the management piece of its virtualization product line, has been released to manufacturing.

Microsoft's latest monthly Patch Tuesday roundup of fixes came with a little something extra today -- the company's first rankings of how likely each vulnerability is to be exploited by an attacker. The update thus marks not just a large patch count