Stuart J. Johnston

If you're waiting for the first service pack before deploying Windows Vista, don't expect it to show improved performance – especially compared to

What a difference a few days can make. Last week, analysis firm Forrester Research released a report suggesting deployments of Vista inside enterprises

Microsoft released the near final version of the first service pack for Windows Vista this week, and a new report predicts that the system's corporate

In a surprise move, Microsoft has postponed its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2008 from next spring to next fall, leaving many industry

Microsoft is shipping the latest version of its embedded operating system for non-PC devices. The company formally announced the release of Windows

How do you cut down on Windows piracy while making a little extra money selling out-of-date software? If you're Microsoft, you set up a program to let

To encourage developers to write tools that work with its coming virtualization hypervisor, Microsoft has announced that it is making the applications

Despite months of rumors and innuendo suggesting that sales of Windows Vista were lackluster, Microsoft last week turned in its best first quarter in

A Microsoft study this week found that the software giant is responsible for generating nearly one out of every two IT jobs worldwide. The study,

Microsoft has begun the public beta test of Popfly, a mashup tool for its Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform, streaming media technology. Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) broadened the beta of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted computing environment this week to include all developers who want

It's been a busy week for Microsoft's legal eagles – and not in a good way – with a small raft of lawsuits all coming to a head at once, and