At the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools deigned for helping developers build education solutions.

Statistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California (UC). Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back

Reported data breaches increased sharply in the first six months of 2008, jumping 69 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

Plus, Bill Gates steps down (if you haven't already heard), and Microsoft releases 50,000 pages of summer reading.

As his boss Bill Gates departs, Ozzie takes Microsoft's online strategy into the cloud.

Microsoft has a new software volume licensing program in the works for large organizations, according to an announcement issued by the company today.