update Under pressure from antitrust regulators, the software titan says it will revamp a program to make it easier for developers to access Windows protocols. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is ...

An ancient network authentication protocol has received its first death notice. The protocol, which has roots going back to the first local area network days of the 1980s, is called Microsoft NTLM, ...

The most significant differences between Microsoft’s Network Access Protection architecture and TCG’s Trusted Network Connect result from the fact that Microsoft doesn’t make switches or routers.

The revamped Communications Protocol Program, posted on the company's Web site, will include making about 20 protocols available without charge and others used to perform particular tasks available ...