Microsoft disputes criticism that it lacks critical recovery features. Debate has broken out over this topic since the Burton Group declared that Microsoft's Hyper-V is not enterprise-ready because it lacks a specific feature found in both the VMware and Citrix hypervisors
Ministers from European Union (E.U.) governments are planning to push ahead with controversial legislation that would open the door for software to be patented, despite a request by members of the European Parliament to restart the legal process for the proposed law.
A planned European Union (E.U.) law that critics say would allow software to be patented has come under fire again, with Green members of Parliament (MEPs) and one Germany's biggest music TV channels attacking the legislation.
A security flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 Gold can allow an attacker to take control of a targeted server, the company said in a security bulletin late Tuesday night. Microsoft issued a patch for the flaw at the same time it released the bulletin.