The past week has been a momentous one. Co-founder Bill Gates officially retired. A few days later, Windows XP was retired. Officially, Monday, June 30 was the last day you could get Windows XP. Kinda, sorta, maybe … well, not really. It's true that XP

Microsoft has not just released the cat among the pigeons by releasing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, it is the cat among the pigeons. Both its allies and its competitors are fluttering about and squawking at the news. Microsoft's supporters are,

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of Windows Vista's demise have been exaggerated. Somewhat, at any rate. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. recently released a report that indicated Vista still isn't ringing many bells with major IT shops. "A year of

Despite CEO Steve Ballmer's claims last year that Linux vendors are violating some 235 Microsoft patents, the company seems to be trying harder to learn to live with the open source world – and vice versa. Redmond said Monday it will

The Microsoft juggernaut is further shaking up the virtualization arena. True, VMware (NYSE: VMW) dominates the market now, but Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rolling on with its plans to build an ecosystem of third-party developers to flesh out its

Microsoft revealed this week new details of its forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), including several capabilities designed especially for IT shops. The new features will include a function that enables administrators to slipstream IE8 into Windows

Microsoft has quietly hired the founder of antispam Web site CastleCops.com to work on its own antispam efforts regarding the company's consumer Live services initiative. CastleCops founder and administrator Paul Laudanski

The keynote kicking off the second week of Microsoft's annual Tech-Ed conference – this week for IT professionals -- didn't have Bill Gates. That was last week, when Gates gave his goodbye speech to third party developers. What Tuesday