http://entmag.com/news/ENT News at ENTmag.com brings you the latest independent information on the worldwide Microsoft Windows enterprise.en-us(c) 1996-2006 1105 Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.News780IT pros will come back from the holiday weekend to face a possible four patches in Microsoft's July patch rollout, according an advance announcement issued by the company.http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10026http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10026#1Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTIn the wake of a report suggesting that Microsoft's Internet Explorer was the least secure of all leading Web browsers, Redmond on Wednesday touted the security features expected to appear in IE 8.http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10024http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10024#2Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTJust two days after the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council announced the deadline for application security compliance and said it would be issuing guidelines for PIN entry devices, court documents have emerged detailing an elaborate plot to hack Citibank's ATM network architecture. http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10023http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10023#3Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft unveiled a new subscription-based consumer offering that combines an office productivity suite with security and hosted services.http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10022http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10022#4Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTReported data breaches increased sharply in the first six months of 2008, jumping 69 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10021http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10021#5Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTStatistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California (UC). Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back over old data.http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10020http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10020#6Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTAt the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools deigned for helping developers build education solutions.http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10019http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10019#7Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft has a new software volume licensing program in the works for large organizations, according to an announcement issued by the company today. http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10018http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10018#8Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTAccording to a report released on Tuesday, more than 40 percent of Internet surfers don't use browsers with up-to-date security patches -- and Internet Explorer users are the biggest culprits.http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10017http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10017#9Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMTTo be sure, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. aren't merely paying lip service to green IT, since all three vendors have announced ambitious new offerings (or in IBM's case, initiatives) that purport to be green -- or greener -- than conventional products.http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10016http://entmag.com/news/rss.asp?editorialsid=10016#10Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT