Remembering Microsoft's 2007, and Looking Forward to 2008
by Alex Woodie

2007 was a year of change for Microsoft, but it didn't necessarily achieve all it wanted to. The launch of Windows Vista was arguably the biggest new product of the year, and, although 100 million people are now using it, Microsoft was expecting a lot more. This year, Microsoft once again has its hopes set high as it preps new releases of Windows Server and Dynamics CRM, and looks to set Windows Live on a solid footing. READ MORE >

Gates Predicts Computing Advances in Final CES Keynote
by Alex Woodie

In his final keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Sunday, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates marveled at how far technology has come since his first CES keynote back in 1994, and then went on to sketch an optimistic picture of how he sees computers changing during the next 10 years. READ MORE >

Servers Get Their First Power and Performance Benchmark
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

For the first 40 years of the systems and server market, price/performance was basically the only metric that mattered within a given class of machines. But in the 21st century, when power and cooling issues are thwarting the attempts of companies to continue adding computing capacity at the rates they did in years gone by, there will be a new metric that people will start to pay attention to: performance/watt. To that end, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation has just release its first benchmark that gauges the performance and power consumption of servers. READ MORE >

Worm Threat High with Security Holes Patched by Microsoft
by Alex Woodie

Microsoft issued two patches that address three vulnerabilities in Windows yesterday, a light start to the secure new year. However, the sole critical patch issued yesterday is a doozy: It fixes a flaw that could enable hackers to take complete control of computers, where the users' only offense was connecting them to the Internet. In other words, they're wormable. READ MORE >