Ryan Naraine

After nearly six months of beta testing, Microsoft’s Office Live Communications Server 2005 is ready for prime time. The next iteration of Redmond’s enterprise instant messaging product was released to manufacturers on Tuesday with enhanced real-time communications capabilities but full-fledged interoperability with America Online’s AIM and the Yahoo Messenger networks won’t be available until the […]

Security researchers are seeing the first signs of a large-scale virus attack taking advantage of a known flaw in the way JPEG images are processed in Microsoft Windows products. Just days after warning that proof-of-concept exploits were circulating, the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) said it had received reports that a “GDIplus.dll” exploit embedded on […]

NEW YORK — World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee is challenging developers to do more with voice recognition systems and spur a sector that is ripe for innovation. In town to deliver a keynote address at the SpeechTek conference, Berners-Lee said end users demand a seamless experience when dealing with voice-activated telephone systems. He […]

Microsoft has pushed back the deadline for the complete delivery of its Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) to April 2005. The software giant had originally planned to automatically install the service pack to all Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems by mid-December, but this schedule has been modified to give businesses […]

The Silicon Valley veteran who created the iMovie and iPhoto applications and helped drive Apple’s (Quote, Chart) successful digital hub strategy wants to prove there’s money to be made in the business instant messaging (IM) market. With Five Across, a venture-funded IM start-up, former Apple director of engineering Glenn Reid is looking for dollars where […]

Enterprise developers looking for a guide to test applications against the new Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) are getting some help from Microsoft . The software giant released a guide detailing the security technologies in the service pack and providing an application testing process to help developers sort through possible disruptions. The availability of […]

The big three instant messaging providers will start chatting with each other, sort of. In a deal that breathes new life into the struggling business instant messaging space and raises hopes for full IM interoperability, Microsoft announced it would open its enterprise-focused Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS 2005) to chat networks run by rivals America […]

The U.S. government’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser. On the heels of last week’s sophisticated malware attack that targeted a known IE flaw, US-CERT updated an earlier advisory to recommend the use of alternative browsers because of ”significant vulnerabilities” in technologies embedded in […]

In what amounts to a change in strategy about ending support for Windows NT, Microsoft has agreed to an unspecified extension of Windows NT 4.0 software security and support for customers in the financial industry. In a deal with BITS, a consortium of financial institutions that collectively holds more than half of the nation’s financial […]

The never-ending quest to find revenue streams in the instant messaging market has hit a new gear with America Online’s rollout of new paid service to allow voice conferencing and browser-based Web meetings direct from IM buddy lists. Recently, AOL’s 36 million active IM users got access to the new AIM Business Services, which marries […]