Matt Berger

Microsoft Corp. Friday released a patch for two versions of its Windows operating system to secure a hole discovered in a critical networking technology that could allow an attacker to stage denial of service attacks or take over a user's computer system.

Developers working on the front lines of Microsoft Corp.'s lofty Web-based initiative are cautioning IT managers not to upgrade their existing applications to .Net unless they're sure they can obtain a clear business benefit from it.

Microsoft Corp. has released a patch for two versions of its Windows operating system to secure a hole discovered in a critical networking technology that could allow an attacker to stage denial of service attacks or take over a user's computer system.

Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates cast his company's .Net initiative wide Wednesday, releasing the final version of the long-anticipated developer toolkit, Visual Studio .Net, as well as the underpinnings of its emerging Web-based development platform, called the .Net Framework.

The tug-of-war over how many witnesses Microsoft Corp. will be allowed to call in its ongoing antitrust hearings with nine states and the District of Columbia continued Wednesday, as the two sides laid out their disagreement on the matter in a joint status report filed with the court.

Despite the vendor's claims, Oracle Corp.'s Oracle9i database is breakable, a U.K. security firm reported Wednesday.

After nearly 25 years of writing software code, Microsoft Corp. is taking a break to do a little housecleaning.

Sun Microsystems has made available a test version of another toolkit designed to allow Java developers to build applications that make use of Web services technology.