Microsoft Thursday night released a consolidated patch to fix three problems in its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 product. In a separate move, Microsoft released a fix to repair a vulnerability in Outlook 98, Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002 that it first acknowledged in early July.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 17, 2001
The U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday denied Microsoft Corp.'s request to delay sending its case back to the District Court until the Supreme Court could consider Microsoft's request for an appeal there. The Supreme Court could still take up the case.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 17, 2001
Microsoft took the wraps off of two new utilities that it says are designed to help enterprise administrators and individual users make sure that their systems are updated with the latest Internet Explorer, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 patches.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 16, 2001
Microsoft this week posted a demo to the Web of an XML querying language called XQuery that the company plans to embed in the .NET Framework and in many of its enterprise server products.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 16, 2001
Microsoft bundled five newly discovered IIS vulnerabilities into a cumulative patch, posted Wednesday, that rolls together all the fixes for the Web server.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 16, 2001
Microsoft on Wednesday night updated a security warning involving its NNTP service to extend the list of affected servers to include Exchange 2000.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 16, 2001
Microsoft Tuesday night scrambled to patch another new bug that makes Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server systems vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 15, 2001
All indications are that Microsoft Corp. appears prepared to certify Windows XP’s Gold Code sooner than expected – perhaps within the next few days.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 15, 2001
IBM's new Summit chipset gives Big Blue a way to build 16-processor systems with industry-standard Intel processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2001
Microsoft's broad beta 2 program for Talisker, the code name for the next generation of its Windows CE operating system, sports a few new features for the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2001
The Peachy virus, unveiled last week, may signal a new frontier for virus writers -- the previously untapped Adobe Acrobat file format.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 13, 2001
Microsoft is expected to reach a settlement with Kodak in a dispute that concerns the manner in which digital photographs are handled by the software giant’s forthcoming Windows XP operating system.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 13, 2001
The U.S. Department of Justice formally opposed Microsoft's effort to get the Supreme Court to hear the antitrust case before it returns to the District Court.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 13, 2001
A new variant of Code Red – dubbed Code Red III – is damaging Windows servers in South Korea, and Code Red variants successfully compromised Web servers at Hotmail.com – which is operated by Microsoft Corp. – and Federal Express, among others.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 10, 2001
This week, sources close to several major PC OEMs claimed that Microsoft Corp. had authorized their companies to ship computers pre-loaded with its Windows XP operating system (OS) at least one month prior to XP’s official debut in late October.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 09, 2001
NetManage has updated its venerable Rumba host access client to better meet the needs of its customers. Rumba 7.0 adds features such as interactive help, SSL support, native Windows features, and features to aid people with limited sight, hearing or motor abilities.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 09, 2001
McAfee.com raised eyebrows this week with the announcement that it had received a U.S. patent for the technology behind its software as a service model.
- By Matt Migliore
- August 09, 2001
Unisys is building its next-generation Wintel mainframe to support up to 128 processors and 2 terabytes of RAM.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 08, 2001
Seizing on the U.S. Court of Appeals criticism of Judge Jackson, Microsoft crafts a Supreme Court appeal based on the controversial judge's actions.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 08, 2001
Oracle provided its developers Wednesday with a free new set of development tools for building J2EE applications. It's a public move into Web services for Oracle.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 08, 2001