Microsoft pushed ahead this week with two of its real-time communications initiatives under the Office umbrella.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 17, 2003
Microsoft hit the key development milestone for the final piece in its six-month-long rollout of Windows Server 2003 on Tuesday with the release to manufacturing of Windows Small Business Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2003
Understand Exchange's per-server vs. per-user licensing implications and you'll save money down the road.
- By Bill Boswell
- September 16, 2003
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a speech Monday that the company felt "humbled" by the effects of the Blaster and Sobig.F worms.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2003
It's looking like September may be a replay of August, with nearly
identical threats ready to swamp IT. Hopefully this time, the painful
experiences of last month will help us avoid another IT catastrophe.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2003
Intel rolled out two new Itanium 2 processors this week that will help drive down the cost of 64-bit computing systems. Both processors are optimized for dual-processor servers and workstations, and one of the chips, previously code-named "Deerfield" has lower power requirements.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 11, 2003
Microsoft released a critical new patch on Wednesday that fixed three new vulnerabilities in the DCOM Remote Procedure Call (RPC) on almost all supported versions of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday launched Windows Storage Server 2003, a version of Windows for Network Attached Storage appliances and intended for dedicated file serving.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2003
Hardware and software vendors jumped on the Microsoft's launch of Windows Storage Server 2003 Wednesday with a host of hardware devices shipping with the new OS and software releases that run on the Network Attached Storage solutions.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2003
AMD fleshed outs its line of Opteron processors on Tuesday, introducing a new model for entry-level systems and a new model for four- to eight-way systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2003
Oracle launched its Oracle 10G database this week and demonstrated slightly better benchmark scalability than SQL Server on a similar Windows-based configuration.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2003
Administering mixed Windows platforms? Then be sure to manage Group Policy Objects from one machine or you'll run into this baffling feature of Windows 2003.
- By Bill Boswell
- September 09, 2003
Stratus Technologies this week refreshed the mid-level and high-end versions of its fault-tolerant Windows-based servers. The company also introduced support for Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2003
As Microsoft prepares to formally launch the next version of Office, the company's security team issued four bulletins for security flaws -- one critical -- in existing Microsoft Office programs. Also Wednesday, Microsoft released a patch for a low-priority flaw in Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 03, 2003
Windows server sales boomed, Linux sales grew even more quickly, and the Unix bleeding slowed.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 03, 2003
Advocates say Oracle's bid is an attempt to acquire the customer base or destroy the company, but were excerpts taken out of context?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 02, 2003
And just what do we go through on a daily basis, anyway?
- By Em C. Pea
- September 01, 2003
Admininstering Active Directory takes some practice. Here are 12 exercises to keep your AD skills limber.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- September 01, 2003
Security Roles, Uniting Technology and Controlling Windows Remotely
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- September 01, 2003
Microsoft’s recently released Active Directory Migration Tool v2 offers important enhancements over the first version. One of Hewlett-Packard’s top AD experts briefs us on the improvements.
- By Gary Olsen
- September 01, 2003