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Retalix, Ltd. Achieves Scalability Improvements By Utilizing Microsoft Services Labs
White Papers Retalix's goals in using Microsoft Services Labs include: Determine the maximum number of users while retaining acceptable performance at varying WAN speeds in various scenarios and configurations. In the process of preparing for the lab engagement...
[April 22, 2008, 1:14]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Labs Efficiently Through Consolidation (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast explains how Microsoft IT centralizes its labs and efficiently manages them using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, and Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005.
[September 8, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft Shows Off 3D Photo Viewer Photosynth
News Microsoft Live Labs's latest project is an old one with a new twist. Ina Fried of ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com, spoke with Microsoft's Gary William Flake about what you can do with this new technology.
[August 26, 2008, 11:57]
Microsoft Unveils Email-priority Prototype
News Microsoft Office Labs has released a prototype plug-in for Outlook that pauses incoming mails and rates them according to importance. The client-side plug-in can be downloaded directly from the Office Labs website.
[August 20, 2008, 17:09]
MS Ponders Licensing By Satellite And Smart Card
News These are just two of the licensing solutions that are currently being put through their paces within the walls of the Microsoft usability labs, according to UK anti-piracy manager David Gregory. Gregory added that these are still "blue sky...
[February 3, 1999, 16:52]
Microsoft Aims To Teach The Teachers
News Microsoft will hold a research conference next week detailing technology development in its labs as well as ongoing projects sponsored by Microsoft at universities. Microsoft Research maintains five labs, which are located in Redmond, Silicon...
[July 29, 2002, 12:56]
Microsoft's Thrilling Change Of Heart
Leader As part of the run-up to Vista's eventual emergence, Microsoft is running Readiness Labs to help independent software vendors check their code on the new operating system. So when Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Labs, talks...
[August 22, 2006, 15:15]
Weakness Found In MS Server Shield
News SecureXpert Labs reported the vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Security and Accelerator (ISA) software, which is used to protect internal networks from outside attackers and to bridge internal networks with the public Internet.
[April 18, 2001, 10:01]
OSDL Gives Microsoft The Cold Shoulder
News The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), home of Linus Torvalds, is unlikely to be accepting Microsoft's offer to jointly finance research into the Windows v Linux debate. The offer, made by Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy Martin...
[August 31, 2005, 9:35]
Wellness Product Company Switches From Linux To Windows Server To Support Growth
White Papers Zone Labs, known for its Evidence Based Wellness products, had an unsupported IT mix of Linux, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, and Java 2 Enterprise Edition, with financial data in QuickBooks. Today, Zone Labs has an integrated IT environment that helps...
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
Linux To Face Off Against NT Again?
News And, as was the case with the last PCWeek Labs-sponsored Mindcraft benchmark, representatives from Microsoft Corp.and the open-source community are both expected to participate in the testing process.
[July 1, 1999, 10:25]
US Report: Glaser Levels New Charges Against Microsoft
News Meanwhile, Microsoft touted the findings of ZD Virtual Labs (part of Ziff-Davis Inc.s PC Magazine franchise), which backed Microsoft's claims that the failure of RealNetworks' "G2" RealPlayer beta to function properly is due to a bug in...
[July 27, 1998, 9:20]
Computer Worm Targets Chinese Windows Users
News A new computer worm which exploits a hole in Chinese versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, is currently running riot among China's computer users, according to Russian anti-virus firm, Kaspersky Labs.
[April 28, 2000, 10:34]
New Outlook Bug Can Sting With Spam
News Concerns raised again about MS The spokesperson for USSR Labs said he felt Microsoft acted quickly to try to patch the hole in this case, but is still concerned that the company doesn't take security seriously enough.
[July 19, 2000, 9:05]
Microsoft Zooms In On Mobile Browsing
News Microsoft Labs' blog described Deepfish's goal as "preserving the rich layout and full form of documents on mobile devices while providing novel ways of effectively navigating that content on small screens".
[April 2, 2007, 9:14]
IE 4.0 Has Problems With NT 5.0 Beta
News PC Week Labs has confirmed that the browser has intermittent problems converting domain names (such as www.pcweek.com) into their corresponding IP addresses. All other TCP/IP utilities on NT 5.0 (including ping and FTP) worked correctly in PC Week...
[October 13, 1997, 10:07]
Windows Dominance To Last 'two To Four Years'
News Linux improvements are advancing quickly," he said, but added: "Linux efforts are kind of all over the place -- each vendor, like IBM, has its own Linux labs," which don't have the same scope or time to devote to boosting performance benchmarks...
[November 17, 2004, 14:45]
Microsoft To Launch Security Portal
News The company is collaborating with security vendors to gather and disseminate malware information, and it has recently opened malware research labs in Japan and Ireland to complement the existing research labs at its headquarters in Redmond.
[April 25, 2007, 17:33]
Personal Firewalls Could Leak Private Info
News No.this is really a Microsoft bug," said Gregor Freund, president of firewall creator Zone Labs. PC protection software such as Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm and Symantec's Norton Internet Security fare well against outside attacks, but Trojan horses and...
[November 12, 2001, 10:36]
Microsoft Restructures Platform Group
News Gary Flake, who heads Microsoft's Live Labs, and the labs team will immediately move to the platform division, where they will continue to focus on research projects and developing online services. Microsoft announced executive changes within its...
[August 2, 2006, 9:50]
