Now that Windows 7 is available, a recent blog by Chester Wisnieski (who works at security vendor Sophos), entitled Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses , which has stirred some interest. Here's a quick summary for those who missed Chester's blog. During a test SophosLabs conducted, they subjected...
Join Stephen Elop , President of Microsoft’s Business Division, and Robert Wahbe , Corporate Vice President of the Server and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft, for the TechEd Europe 2009 keynote on Monday November 9th starting at 6:30am Pacific. During the keynote, Stephen and Robert will discuss the...
Volume seven of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7) - part of Microsoft's commitment to providing an unparalleled level of security intelligence to help keep individuals and organizations better informed and to maximize security investments - was released today and there are a couple of...
Over the past months, my colleagues from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team have been hard at work to develop the planning and design guidance for DirectAccess. Today, we are pleased to announce the release of the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for DirectAccess . In case you’ve...
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 , the industry's largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and their senior IT leaders is taking place this week in Orlando, Florida. During this year’s event, which will focus on how business technology can help customers return to growth by balancing cost optimization...
Thank you to all of you who tuned in and posted or sent in questions for our most recent roundtable and made it another huge success. We will be posting all the questions and answers in the next few days so keep an eye out. Missed the VRT? Here is the promo of what you can look forward to when the replay...
These are the fun blog posts for me—I get the honor of announcing the availability of a resource so many of you have been asking for—a Windows Enterprise Trial edition you can use to continue testing Windows 7 in your own environment is now available from the Springboard Series on TechNet...
Meet Kevin Sullivan, He’s a Principal Program Manager here at Microsoft. Kevin shares his thoughts on Group Policy and how this innovative solution can provide flexibility, customization, and ease of adaptation for IT professionals and end users alike. Also live is our “Making of Windows 7” video. Meet...
I am Stephen Rose, Sr Community Manager for Windows Client IT Professionals. Today, I am excited to announce that the Springboard Series Blog will now be part of The Windows Blog! By partnering with The Windows Blog, we are taking one more step towards creating that one stop shop for key information...
I get the extreme pleasure of exclusively revealing a new Microsoft community website on Windows today specifically designed for IT Professionals: Talking About Windows . Talking About Windows is a new website that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Windows 7 from the Microsoft engineers...