IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

eldavojohn writes "Microsoft is due for a very large patch this month, in which five critical holes (that render Windows hijackable by an intruder) are due to be fixed, in addition to twenty other pro

snydeq writes "Microsoft warned that a flaw in IE gives attackers access to files stored on a PC under certain conditions.

Jared writes "Microsoft says it is investigating reports of notebooks with poor battery life with Windows 7, as first reported by users on Microsoft TechNet.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Microsoft Office 2003 bug is locking people out of their own files, specifically those protected with Microsoft's Rights Management Service.

duguk writes "Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the 'black screen of death,' which affects Windows 7 — and reports suggest it affects Vista and XP, too.

After this weekend's report of a dangerous flaw in IE (which Microsoft confirmed today), intrudere points out an exclusive report in The Register on a new hole in IE8 that could allow an attacker to p

Has Microsoft suddenly awakened to open source? (OStatic)
Amazon delivers Kindle for PC — works great on a netbook (jkOnTheRun)
Battery startup ActaCell lassos cool $1M from Texas (Earth2Tech)

CWmike writes to mention that the "Windows Presentation Foundation" plugin that Microsoft slipped into Firefox last February apparently left the popular browser open to attack.

CWmike writes to mention that the "Windows Presentation Foundation" plugin that Microsoft slipped into Firefox last February apparently left the popular browser open to attack.

Bing, the shiny, new search engine that Microsoft launched this summer, may be starting to lose its luster. Its U.S.

Microsoft today unveiled pricing details for its Azure services platform — possibly because customers were reluctant to build an application on the beta platform without knowing what it may one day

By now, you all must have read about the next version of Microsoft Office 10. You’ve also likely heard about the web version of Microsoft Office.

As a longtime Kayak user, I was shocked when I first saw Microsoft’s new Bing travel site.

ko9 writes that Microsoft has re-launched its "'Get the facts' campaign, in an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome.

dasButcher writes "Adobe joins Microsoft and Oracle on regularly scheduled security patch releases.