Microsoft wasted little time saying Cisco’s competitive offering is inferior and detailing the testing in a whitepaper
Privilege Manager 3.5 lets companies eliminate troubling UAC prompts via security settings in Microsoft’s Group Policy feature of Active Directory
Mike Neil deflects critics’ punches on the company’s virtualization timeline and strategy
Features social networking, managed client software
Battle brews over who controls the virtualization software that controls the data center.
Users can now integrate the messaging platform with Vista and Windows 2008, but virtualization support will have to wait until mid-2008
Microsoft is pushing its Virtual Server 2005 R2, but the general consensus is that it’s no match for VMware’s ESX platform
Deal closing backs CEO Steve Ballmer’s prediction: “We are going to be an advertising company."