Microsoft has promised to create 4,000 positions in the UK this year.
The announcement comes after Prime Minister David Cameron held Downing Street talks with business leaders aimed at taking up the employment slack left
by lay-offs blamed on spending cuts.
At the end of January 10, 2011, the latest Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ public preview was slated to expire — even though there was no replacement beta slated for another four to six weeks. But Microsoft has issued a last-minute expiry workaround, officials said today.
The expiration didn’t mean users would lose any data, but did mean users would have their servers auto-rebooted hourly because the beta period had ended. Officials still told testers if they had any :important data on your ‘Vail’ server, it is recommended that you migrate the data to another location.”
Two zero-day bugs which have been exploited by hackers will not be patched by Microsoft Corp.’s first Patch Tuesday of 2011.
The company will be releasing two security bulletins addressing three bugs all in all, but will not be patching two bugs which have caught the attention of attackers recently.
Microsoft has a late Christmas present for security professionals in January.
Following what was one of the largest patch releases in Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) history last month, the company's first Patch Tuesday of 2011 – coming next week – will only feature two patches, just one of which is rated critical.
This isn’t a typical keynote write-up. Usually, covering a keynote, I write about what executives say or announce. At the kick-off Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on January 5, the more interesting bits were what Ballmer didn’t say.
He didn’t offer Windows Phone 7 sales numbers. (Microsoft said recently it had sold 1.5 million WP7 devices, but later admitted it had sold these to carriers, not consumers.)
In just three and a half months of existence, the next version of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer 9 beta, has been downloaded over 20 million times, Microsoft said in a blog post. The download rate is a record for a Microsoft beta release, according to a company representative.
All tech eyes focus on Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, including on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Wednesday evening keynote at which he’s widely reported to be introducing a tablet computer running Windows. Oddly, at least from my perspective, it will run Windows 7 instead of its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system.
It’s that time: Time to start plotting the travel schedule and penciling in the Microsoft events (that we know about so far) for the new year.
Nearly every time a new DRM-enabled product is launched, you can be sure that it is only a short matter of time before the system is cracked. This time, after much debate over the effectiveness of the DRM on Windows Phone 7 applications, hackers have demonstrated just how easy they can make it to pirate Windows Phone 7 apps.
Hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Word to plant malware on Windows PCs, Microsoft said Tuesday. The bug in Microsoft Word 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2010 was patched Nov. 9 as part of Microsoft's monthly security update.
Word 2008 and 2011 for the Mac have also been patched, but Microsoft has not yet issued a fix for the same flaw in the older Word 2004. The circulating attacks affect only Windows versions of the suite, however.
