John Hogan

Among the earliest Internet "urban legends" was the one circulated by an e-mail message that implored people to forward... More...

Customers are apparently afraid that Software Assurance -- the maintenance aspect of Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 program... More...

Lawsuits and criminal prosecutions have done little to prevent such practices, which are costing enterprises -- and... More...

That's the essence of the message that Bill Gates put forth to the world from a stage in New York at Tuesday's formal debut... More...

That was the case this week, when Oracle executives starting hinting that they may use legal means to force Microsoft to... More...

This week, the 20-city Microsoft Security Summit tour stopped off in Boston, where many customers of the software... More...

Some of the speeches focused on the security of specific products; others hit on broader themes, such as spam and patch... More...

All it took was $2 billion on Microsoft's part. Now, how hard was that?

The breathtaking settlement at the end of last week... More...

The central point of the report, issued by the Computer & Communications Industry Association, was that IT systems will... More...

Rather than end support for the desktop OS today, as scheduled, Microsoft will continue to offer paid support until the... More...

So, for companies such as Microsoft, there's a delicate balancing act between sounding a legitimate alarm and sounding... More...

This week, Redmond's chairman and chief software architect continued to hammer home the theme that speech and... More...

Probably the biggest news from the TechEd 2004 conference was that Microsoft will now offer 10 years of support for its... More...

Microsoft had previously predicted that 10% to 30% of its Upgrade Advantage customers would make the leap to the... More...

Well, you can smear lipstick on a pig, but it's still a swine.

Despite chief executive Steve Ballmer's promises during his... More...

In his annual state of the company memo, Microsoft's CEO told his charges that the software maker needs to cut its costs... More...

But are we really getting what's advertised here?

Proponents of the legislation say the law will help users take back... More...

One of the greatest rivalries in sports, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, nearly always plays out to a familiar... More...

At this week's Microsoft Management Summit 2004, users seemed to agree that combining the functions of Systems... More...

At its partner conference in Toronto this week, Microsoft outlined a plan to control access to a corporate network... More...

That bombshell was dropped as lawyers for Oracle prepared to deliver opening arguments Monday in its case to acquire... More...

The long-dormant browser wars are heating up again, thanks in part to pesky Russian scam artists looking to shake down... More...

You've got to hand it to Darl McBride. SCO's pugnacious chief executive has impeccable timing. Novell, arguably the... More...

While most of Microsoft's service packs are generally interpreted as a sign that a piece of software has most of the bugs... More...

By Tuesday, Mydoom-A had infected one out of every 41 e-mail messages. And so far, the U.K.-based e-mail monitoring service... More...

That's how long Microsoft's chief counsel predicts that the appeals process in this case will take. By then, Windows will... More...

Clearly, Microsoft benefits the most from making customers validate their copies of Windows. But since Redmond is one... More...

Take the whole notion of administrative privilege. Note that the term isn't administrative God-given right or... More...

The positive tone changed somewhat as reports circulated that the security console in SP2 is vulnerable to a spoofing... More...

Administrators have been feverishly working on an extremely complex patch deployment, while virus writers are... More...