Users who buy Microsoft's newly unveiled Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition operating system will be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows .NET Datacenter Server, which will ship at the same time as the rest of the Windows .NET Server products, a Microsoft official says.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2001
Microsoft directed users of its Web server software to a year-old patch for protection against the recently discovered Code Blue vulnerability -- a worm with a limited presence in the wild.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2001
Microsoft this week gave Web server administrators a tool that lets them act as a border guard -- stopping suspicious requests before they damage IIS boxes.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2001
The IT security watchdog group at the CERT Coordination Center reported Wednesday that all appeared quiet on the cyberfront in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2001
ENT columnist and DEC veteran Greg Scott considers the momentous summer that saw Compaq dump Alpha, HP offer to buy Compaq, and Microsoft's apparent dodge of a break-up.
- By Greg Scott
- September 12, 2001
Unisys this week published a TPC-C benchmark, the industry standard measure of OLTP scalability, for a 32-processor system running Windows Datacenter Server. The result puts a Microsoft-Intel system in the performance neighborhood of Unix/RISC systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2001
Microsoft this week patched a hole in Windows NT 4.0’s RPC service that leaves NT systems vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 12, 2001
Microsoft this week announced a special, scale-up version of Windows Datacenter Server. Officially called Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition, the 32-bit operating system built on the Whistler code base is specifically tuned for systems with more than 16 processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2001
Microsoft alerted administrators to a new vulnerability in Exchange 5.5’s Outlook Web Access. Meanwhile, CERT issued an advisory about a security problem with the Gauntlet firewall.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 07, 2001
The Justice Department on Thursday told Microsoft that it will not seek to break up the company in the remedy phase. The government also decided to drop the tying claim. At the same time, the government signalled its intent to look closely at Microsoft's most recent practices -- a move that could drag Windows XP into the antitrust case.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 06, 2001
Systems and application management vendor Precise Software Solutions announced on Wednesday that it had acquired Windows NT/2000 storage management specialist W. Quinn Associates Inc. in a $35 million dollar deal.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 06, 2001
IT analyst firm Gartner gives the Hewlett-Packard Co. deal to acquire Compaq Computer Corp. a better than 50-50 chance of falling through.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 06, 2001
Altiris Inc. on Wednesday introduced three products suites that extend the infrastructure management capabilities of organizations using Microsoft Corp.'s Systems Management Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 05, 2001
Web server monitor Netcraft documents that sites running Microsoft's IIS are substantially more locked down for security in the wake of Code Red than they were before the outbreak of the worm.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 05, 2001
With the Windows XP launch on Oct. 25, Microsoft will complete the client half of its 64-bit computing equation.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 05, 2001
Server vendors are beginning to ship servers loaded with 900 MHz Pentium III Xeons again after a problem with the high-end processors caused Intel Corp. to temporarily interrupt the flow of the chips.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 05, 2001
Windows XP Embedded entered Beta 2 Tuesday, and Microsoft representatives say the embedded operating system remains on track for release within 90 days of the general Windows XP release.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 04, 2001
HP's stock value dropped more than 18 percent and Compaq's value dipped more than 10 percent as investors reacted to the news that HP would buy Compaq for $25 billion.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 04, 2001
Stratus on Tuesday launched a new, low-end Intel processor-based, fault-tolerant server and cut prices on its existing fault-tolerant Wintel server. The fault-tolerant computing company now has two servers under $25,000, the price point that IDC recently identified as one threshold for volume sales in the server market.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 04, 2001
Anne Marie McSweeney, director of certification and skills assessment group at Microsoft, spoke to editors from Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine and CertCities.com during Fusion, the company's partner conference, which took place in Anaheim, California in July 2001.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- September 01, 2001