Authorization Manger makes secure server virtualization more than a pipe dream. These best practices show you the two best ways to secure Hyper-V Server and virtual machines using Authorization Manager.
Tags : Microsoft, security, virtual, server virtualization, Hyper-v

OS Roundup: A New York hedge fund has made an offer to buy Novell. Is it paying $2 billion just for the Linux OS, or is there more to it? And, more importantly, will the offer bring other players to the fore? Perhaps Microsoft will end up the white knight in this strange tale.
Tags : Red Hat, Novell, SUSE, Microsoft, linux os

In a presentation to financial analysts, Microsoft's head of server and tools, Bob Muglia, admits the Azure computing cloud initiative is still years from making a profit.
Tags : Microsoft, cloud computing, Cloud, Azure, Windows Server

OS Roundup: Supersizing is out of style in the restaurant world, but Apple's iPad announcement last week and Microsoft's commercial launch of its cloud platform Azure yesterday prove it is very much alive in the tech industry.
Tags : Apple, Microsoft, Cloud, Azure, iPad

Windows Server 2008 R2 lets you downgrade the current edition, if there was an equivalent offering in a prior version of Windows Server.
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NetApp and Microsoft have signed up for a three-year agreement that will extend joint sales, product collaboration and technical integration.
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Gartner says recession-battered companies will hold server virtualization adoption steady in 2010, but that prediction could be proved wrong.
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A zero-day vulnerability in IIS revealed on Christmas day allows attackers to bypass file extension protections using a semicolon after an executable extension.
Tags : Microsoft, security, IIS, vulnerability

Is your Exchange Server driving you around the bend? Fear not, from hosted Exchange services to cloud-based Outlook-compatible email services, options abound.
Tags : Microsoft, Google, Exchange, email, Cloud

Are your Hyper-V virtual machines secure? Learn how to secure them using Authorization Manager.
Tags : Hyper-V, virtualization, Microsoft, Windows Server 2008

OS Roundup: Microsoft is heading for the cloud, but its mission will not be without turbulence.
Tags : Microsoft, cloud computing, Cloud, Azure, operating system

Is innovation overrated? Both Windows and Mac OS X have found success by borrowing from each other and building on it -- a model not that dissimilar from Linux and the open source software movement.
Tags : Apple, Microsoft, OS, Mac OS, Mac OS X

OS Roundup: The operating system isn't nearly as important as the data, yet neither Microsoft nor Apple seems to realize this. When it comes to protecting your data, you're your own best defense.
Tags : Microsoft, cloud computing, snow leopard, Cloud Storage, Cloud

Cover Your Assets: Help for Active Directory integration for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X has arrived. Here are three products to aid you in the travail.
Tags : Windows, Microsoft, Active Directory, integration, frugality

OS Roundup: When collaboration mixes with competition, strong products aim to help, not hinder, weaker ones. In the case of the Soviet Union, this lead to shoddy products. When it comes to Linux, however, collaborating to hinder a bigger rival is the true objective.
Tags : Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu, Debian

OS Roundup: An irritating note-making C# application threatens Linux and brings the mighty Debian to its knees. Think it can't happen?
Tags : Microsoft, Stallman, Debian, Mono, C#

OS Roundup: Happy birthday, Unix. There's much more to be said than 40 years old and not yet dead.
Tags : Linux, Apple, Unix, Microsoft, OS

OS Roundup: No, not really, though Microsoft argues otherwise. But Linux, OS X and UNIX aren't all that secure either. Here's why.
Tags : Vista, Microsoft, OS, security

OS Roundup: Is the key to desktop OS success tied to its server connection? That would explain Apple's and Window's success -- and Linux's many false starts.
Tags : marketing, desktop, Linux, Microsoft, Linux desktop