According to a report released on Tuesday, more than 40 percent of Internet surfers don't use browsers with up-to-date security patches -- and Internet Explorer users are the biggest culprits.
The director of the new Massachusetts-based Microsoft Research lab wants to use mathematics to design better search engines, recommendation systems, and online auctions.
To be sure, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. aren't merely paying lip service to green IT, since all three vendors have announced ambitious new offerings (or in IBM's case, initiatives) that purport to be green -- or
Microsoft issued a hotfix for Windows XP Service Pack 3 last week that it says "could resolve" a Windows registry corruption problem associated with third-party security software.
One week to the day Microsoft announced it was working on a patch to correct problems concerning System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) -- problems that have rendered some SCCM users unable to deploy June's security patches -- the company on
A new payment card industry (PCI) standard for Web application firewalls and source code goes into effect on Tuesday morning at midnight, the PCI Security Standards Council said on Monday.
Youssef Hamadi of Microsoft Research Cambridge found himself working at a breakneck pace toward SAT-Race 2008, but his efforts paid off when his project was declared the world's best parallel solver.