October 24, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2000
NAS has been touted an ideal
storage system for NT/2000 administrators since it scales quickly with a
minimum of fuss. Today Microsoft
and Dell announced a
partnership to develop NAS products.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2000
Blowing Wall Street estimates out of the water, Microsoft officials on Wednesday announced an 18 percent increase in profits for its fiscal first quarter 2001 over the same period a year ago and then painted a rosy picture for the rest of the fiscal year in terms of Windows 2000 products.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 19, 2000
Microsoft has spent plenty of time recently discussing its .NET strategy – which shifts much of the company’s emphasis from software to delivery and support of online services. However, the software giant has been murky about details regarding how .NET will be productized, or how it will fit with Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 19, 2000
October 18, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The digital divide, Internet taxes, and economic growth were topics taken up by Senator Joseph Lieberman, vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore, as part of an appearance at the GartnerGroup ITxpo.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Steve Ballmer, president and CEO of Microsoft, defended Microsoft product pricing trends, .NET strategy, and industry practices Wednesday at GartnerGroup’s Symposium/ITxpo.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2000
October 17, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- October 17, 2000
Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, announced that Sun intends to eventually reposition itself as an information utility that provides services and functionality via a Web-based “dial tone.”
- By Scott Bekker
- October 17, 2000
Microsoft's stock price dropped
a whopping 6.4 percent on the Nasdaq exchange Monday, putting the price level
of the software giant at its lowest point in almost two years.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2000
Carly Fiorina, president and CEO
of Hewlett-Packard, outlined HP’s new
strategy to expand into IT and e-business services at Monday’s keynote session
at the GartnerGroup ITXpo currently
taking place in Orlando, Fla.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2000
Dell is
voluntarily recalling about 27,000 batteries supplied to the company for
notebook use. The batteries can short circuit, even when not in use,
potentially causing them to become very hot, release smoke, and possibly catch
fire.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 13, 2000
At the Intel Exchange conference today in San Francisco,
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates announced a
new management solution called Microsoft Operations Manager, a series of standards-based
management interfaces called .NET Management Services, and a partner program
called the Microsoft Management Alliance.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 12, 2000
Today at the Intel Exchange conference in San Francisco, Microsoft and NetIQ announced a technology licensing agreement and
partnership in operations management.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 12, 2000
Microsoft,
along with technology partners led by Dell, today opened its second technology center in Austin. The Microsoft
Technology Center (MTC) – Austin combines a team of consultants, a powerful
development environment, and a group of technology partners headed by Dell.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 12, 2000