Microsoft plans to release new wired and wireless networking products Thursday into the crowded and hypercompetitive consumer hardware market. The Redmond, Wash.-based company plans to market five ...

Cisco and Microsoft announced Tuesday plans to extend their existing partnership around network connectivity to cloud-based applications. Specifically, the companies will integrate Cisco's ...

The default behavior of ping on Linux and other Unix-like systems is different from Windows. On Windows, the ping command ...

Networking among virtual machines in Microsoft Azure is going to get a whole lot faster thanks to some new hardware that Microsoft has rolled out across its fleet of data centers. The company ...

Whether at home or at the office, networking has gone mainstream. Once upon a time, a computer had value as a stand-alone machine running applications, but that time has passed. Without an ability to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 7 2025: This story, originally published May 6, ...

A look inside a Microsoft data center in Cheyenne, Wyo. (Microsoft Photo) An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking ...

Microsoft says Windows 11 customers might experience networking speed issues if Dell's SmartByte software runs on their devices. SmartByte is a Windows application designed to automatically stabilize ...

Just click on the title link and read the new and improved Windows 7/Vista Home Networking Setup and Options. If you’re familiar with (wired) home networking using Window’s XP-based computers, then ...

Imagine this: With a single password typed only once, a businessman from Detroit gets real-time updates to his calendar, e-mail account, instant messenger, travel schedule and bank statement, ...

Windows 7 has implemented a few new things when it comes to how PCs are networked. Reassuringly, it has kept a few old chestnuts that date back to Windows 98 for those of us that are slow to change.