Intel's Itanium 2 processor is supposed to break open the market for 64-bit standard-high-volume computing, and Intel on Wednesday vowed that the performance of the new chip will not disappoint when it ships later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 29, 2002
NetIQ Corp. is shipping a new version of a Microsoft Exchange tool for helping administrators monitor and understand activity on Exchange servers across the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 29, 2002
Storage and availability heavyweight Legato Systems got its Networker software certified for the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server platform in another sign of the importance of storage management and availability software for customers of Microsoft's high-end operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 28, 2002
Intel Corp. over the weekend slashed prices on several processor lines, including some Pentium III Server chips. The price cuts appeared mostly aimed at desktop and mobile processors, including the top-of-the-line Pentium 4s.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 28, 2002
A software startup with a server-based technology for pushing applications down to Windows clients and running them cleanly has entered an agreement with Microsoft to extend its new solution to a Microsoft .NET-based service.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 28, 2002
Application Security, Inc., a New York-based development and consulting company that sells vulnerability assessment and encryption tools for a variety of database and groupware platforms, recently introduced support for SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. Microsoft Exchange Server is also on AppSec's radar.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 23, 2002
Scaling back its predictions, analyst firm Giga Information Group issued a report today suggesting flat spending in IT this year. Giga initially predicted modest growth for the year.
Microsoft released a patch late Wednesday for a critical flaw in Windows NT and Windows 2000 that could allow users to elevate their privileges on compromised systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2002
AOL-Time Warner subsidiary Netscape Communications put out a preview release of Navigator 7.0, a version of the browser that includes tabbed browsing and built-in radio.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2002
Gartner analysts sounded the alarm again this week for users to review their Microsoft software licensing agreements. The July 31 deadline when Licensing 6.0 goes into full force is bearing down quickly.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2002
A worm exploiting a password set by default to null in SQL Server is roaring around the Internet, according to several security watchdog groups.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2002
Microsoft this week said the next versions of its SharePoint portal and collaboration products will ship in 2003 and will include tight integration with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft's other server software.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 21, 2002
Citrix, the company whose name is practically synonymous with server-based computing in Microsoft environments, reached a new agreement with Microsoft to gain continued access to Windows Server code for three years.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 21, 2002
Microsoft ran into one of its classic security flaps over the latest Internet Explorer cumulative patch. An Israeli security firm, GreyMagic Software, accused Microsoft on Thursday and Friday of failing to address the underlying issues that led to some of the 6 new vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched on Wednesday in MS02-023.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 20, 2002
Microsoft issued a critical cumulative Internet Explorer patch on Wednesday that corrects six newly discovered vulnerabilities and changes the behavior of the Web browser. The security bulletin, MS02-023, is the third cumulative patch for IE this year and the fifth since November 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2002
Intel refreshed its value line of desktop processors this week with new Celerons at speeds of 1.7 GHz and 1.4 GHz.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2002
Sun plays up the price difference between its StarOffice 6.0 suite and Microsoft Office, while noting interoperability with Microsoft's ubiquitous productivity software. While Sun has raised the price from free, the company still contends that savings over Office licenses start at 75 percent. StarOffice 6.0 hits the market May 21.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2002
A hoax circulating around the Internet tells users to delete a legitimate file that is a part of Microsoft's Java middleware.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 15, 2002
Gartner issued a bulletin this week, "Don't Allow Free Instant Messaging in Your Enterprise," pegged to Microsoft's recent release of a security bulletin fixing a critical vulnerability in MSN Messenger.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 15, 2002
Longtime Windows storage software vendor OTG Software is officially part of Legato Systems Inc. Both companies' shareholders formally approved the acquisition, Legato announced Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 15, 2002