Microsoft news from Network World

Microsoft Silverlight loses Major League Baseball to Adobe Flash

John Fontana — 2008-11-19T00:00:00Z

Microsoft will no longer play under the bright lights of Major League Baseball, which has decided to throw out the vendor's Silverlight browser add-on in favor of Adobe's Flash.

Microsoft, Novell toast anniversary with tools, support coupons

John Fontana — 2008-11-19T00:00:00Z

Marking the two-year anniversary of their partnership, Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday they were releasing tools to help users manage and support SUSE Linux.

Windows HPC hits top 10 among supercomputers

John Fontana — 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Microsoft on Tuesday hit another high-performance computing milestone by placing its server for the first time in the top 10 on the list of the Top 500 super computers as judged by Top500.org.

Exchange, SharePoint hosted services go live

John Fontana — 2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

Microsoft on Monday will release the first of several of its hosted business-productivity services.

Making the Wi-Fi connection

Craig Mathias — 2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

Wi-Fi discovery and connection tools have existed since the early days of 802.11. But while many of these tools have their roots in hacker tools like AirCrack, WEPCrack, AirSnort, CoWPatty, and AirSnarf, which were all originally developed to exploit the fundamental weakness in Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), these tools now legitimately embody the client-side user interface elements that help establish essentially every WLAN link.

IBM and Microsoft demonstrate 'interdomain federation'

Steve Taylor,Larry Hettick — 2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

VoiceCon San Francisco wrapped up last week with more news on the unified communications front. Perhaps the most noteworthy item came from IBM and Microsoft following up on a commitment, made in Orlando in March 2008, to improve interoperability. The companies announced they have now demonstrated "interdomain federation" between Microsoft OCS and IBM Sametime and that the feature will be available in products within the next few months.

Lotus chief defines imminent battle plan

John Fontana — 2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

Integration of traditional on-premises Notes-based collaboration, new unified communications tools, Symphony productivity applications, content management, Web-based services and the potential to mash it all together with new-fangled development tools and social networking innovations pouring out of IBM's research labs are just a few of the challenges facing IBM's Lotus Software division chief, Bob Picciano.

Cisco fights to keep No. 1 spot in network security

Ellen Messmer — 2008-11-17T00:00:00Z

Cisco, dominant in the network-security market, faces questions about how well its security products work, especially as modules in Cisco switches and routers.

Google, Microsoft take voice, social networking shots at one another

John Fontana — 2008-11-14T00:00:00Z

Google and Microsoft this week traded counter-punches over voice and social networking tools as the two continue to battle each other over emerging technologies.

Message to VoiceCon: UC can help you through hard times

Tim Greene — 2008-11-13T00:00:00Z

Users buying into idea that unified communications can cut costs, boost productivity

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