PC Magazine - A small group of Microsoft Technology Adoption program customers will get their hands on Vista Service Pack 2 next week, but a release date for the general public has not yet been set. -- read full article
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:59:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reaching farther into the cloud. After two years in beta, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is now generally available. Amazon also announced a beta for hosted support running Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server. -- read full article
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:42:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft beat Wall Street's forecast for last quarter thanks to strong sales of business software, but it lowered its guidance for its fiscal year ending June 30 in the face of the global economic slowdown. -- read full article
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:55:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - It doesn't happen often, but when it does it gets the attention of the security world. Microsoft on Thursday issued an out-of-band patch designated as critical for Windows XP and older versions, and important for Windows Vista. -- read full article
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:43:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Microsoft on Thursday reported a 1.8 percent rise in quarterly profit but said it was lowering its outlook for the full year because of fears of a "continued economic slowdown."
InfoWorld - Microsoft will herald a security project called Web Sandbox, for securing Web content through isolation, at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week. -- read full article
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:44:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC Magazine - Is bgC3 a technology incubator? Or just a legal construct to pay the Microsoft co-founder's maids? Depends on who you ask. -- read full article
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:23:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC Magazine - Microsoft's earnings were up 2 percent in the most recent quarter, the software giant announced Thursday. Operating income and revenue are expected to climb during the December quarter. -- read full article
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:54:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - Microsoft announced Wednesday night that it is issuing an emergency security patch Thursday, 19 days before the next regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday on Nov. 11. It's the first time in more than a year that Microsoft has issued a so-called "out-of-band" patch. -- read full article
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:48:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week will expand access to its Surface SDK for building applications for its surface computing platform. -- read full article
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:40:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - Microsoft on Thursday reported a 1.8 percent rise in quarterly profit but said it was lowering its outlook for the full year because of fears of a "continued economic slowdown."
AP - Microsoft is still churning out big profits, but its decision to trim its sails shows that even the world's largest software maker is feeling the effects of the choppy economy.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp reported better than expected quarterly profit and reduced its outlook less than many investors had feared in the face of tough economic conditions.
