Microsoft is retooling its software vulnerability-notification program so that it will provide details and code fixes to selected commercial vendors of security and protection software that join its ...

Called the Vendor Interop Alliance, the initiative was unveiled at the IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain. The alliance aims to encourage vendor collaboration to promote interoperability among disparate ...

Microsoft acquired PromoteIQ, a vendor marketing technology provider. PromoteIQ's clients include Kroger, Kohl's, and Overstock.com PromoteIQ will become a division within Microsoft Advertising.

In a bid to give it more of a presence in the enterprise security market, Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire antivirus software maker Sybari Software Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst U.S. cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compromised ...

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft have been cited as three of the leading suppliers of technology for small- and medium- size businesses by information technology research firm Gartner. In its first ...

The layoffs appeared to hit solutions associates, direct sales associates, program managers and success managers. Microsoft has begun another round of job cuts less than two weeks after the end of its ...

Microsoft is issuing a new requirement for the multitude of vendors that provide contract workers for the company: give the workers at least 12 weeks of paid leave after they have a child. The Redmond ...

Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to get more independent software vendors to integrate Office front-ends with their own business applications. There already exist a number of these ...

Operating system vendors were given two months notice before a serious security flaw was made public but some have yet to resolve the issue, a security researcher has claimed. Colin Percival detailed ...

Nearly 150 vendor employees at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., will need to be evaluated for tuberculosis after a fellow vendor was recently diagnosed with active TB disease. Public Health — Seattle & ...