http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/microsoft.html Breaking Microsoft news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111009-patch-tuesday-experts.html Microsoft released six patches that address 15 vulnerabilities. Here's a look at what security experts are saying about the vulnerabilities, patches and what should concern users. John Fontana 2009-11-10T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111009-firefox-turns-five.html In November 2004, a skunksworks project called Phoenix turned into a browser called Firefox and now five years later the plan is to rise again, but this time not from ashes. John Fontana 2009-11-10T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110909-open-source-companies.html Open source has moved into a new phase where it is evaluated more on its technical merits than on the community model of software development. Here's a collection of established companies, up-and-comers and outright start-up projects worth watching. John Fontana 2009-11-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110909-microsoft-exchange.html Microsoft Monday shipped the final release of Exchange 2010, ushering in not so much the latest version of its messaging server but the first updated piece of its unified communications and collaboration platform. John Fontana 2009-11-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110909-windows-7-not-supported-by-cisco-uc-reese.html Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is warning customers of its unified communications products that support for Windows 7 won’t be forthcoming until the product’s 8.0 release scheduled for the first quarter of 2010. About a dozen more UC products will not support Windows 7 until version 8.5, in the third quarter of 2010 and at that time, only the 32-bit version of Windows 7 will be supported.  http://www.networkworld.com/community/taxonomy/term/7678 Network World staff 2009-11-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/110909-sharepoint-server-2010-test.html Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2010 is a significant improvement over SharePoint 07, providing IT execs with multiple ways to streamline their infrastructure and cut costs. Mike Heck 2009-11-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/110909-sharepoint-server-2010-test-side.html Microsoft's SharePoint Server is one of those wildly popular products that defies categorization. Microsoft claims SharePoint Server is the fastest growing product in company history, which is saying a lot. But it's not easy to pin down, since SharePoint focuses on six diverse areas: collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management (ECM), business process management and business intelligence. Mike Heck 2009-11-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/110909-microsoft-exchange-2010.html Microsoft Exchange 2010 officially ships today, offering enterprises a bigger, better, faster messaging platform. In April, reviewer Joel Snyder tested the beta version of Exchange 2010. Joel Snyder 2009-11-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110609-451group-cloud-computing-virtualization.html While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level. Bob Brown 2009-11-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110309-red-hat-virtualization-infrastructure.html Red Hat Tuesday made good on its promise to deliver a stand-alone hypervisor and a set of management tools as its gears up to go toe-to-toe with VMware and Microsoft to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure. John Fontana 2009-11-03T12:00:00-04:00