From the business wires: Group Policy management software, a solution for migrating customer data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and an 8GB USB flash drive.
- By Dan Hong
- December 16, 2005
Microsoft filed 10 lawsuits in federal court accusing three companies and nine individuals of illegally selling Microsoft software.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2005
Microsoft's board increased the company's quarterly dividend by a penny to $0.09 a share.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2005
Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 will be generally available on Monday in the United States and Canada, Microsoft said.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2005
Quest Software is shipping version 2.5 of its Group Policy Manager tool for creating, testing and implementing Windows Group Policy.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2005
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Visto filed suit against Microsoft for patent infringement in connection with Windows Mobile 5, which introduces push e-mail technology similar to Visto’s offerings.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2005
Microsoft recently took another small step in its Trustworthy Computing initiative by obtaining security certification for a number of updated products.
- By Keith Ward
- December 15, 2005
Microsoft finished development this week on the Web access component of its Office Communicator client.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 14, 2005
Microsoft and Whale Communications announced a partnership that enables Whale to sell an integrated solution that combines Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 with the smaller firm’s Intelligent Application Gateway product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 14, 2005
Role-based administration is a major feature in the beta, which is limited to about 1,400 testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 14, 2005
Attackers are already exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer that Microsoft released a patch for Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 13, 2005
VMware made a splash in November when it released the free VMware Player, which lets users run pre-built VMware virtual machine configurations on client PCs. Now the company has taken its efforts a step further, teaming with Mozilla and Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu Linux) to create a pre-built virtual machine for the Firefox Web browser.
- By Michael Desmond
- December 13, 2005
Microsoft shipped at the end of last week Service Pack 1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0, a quiet update that fixes 200 or so bugs but that adds no new features to the revered database development tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 13, 2005
All of the noise and attention surrounding the release last month of Firefox 1.5 appears to have helped the alternative Web browser’s market share, even if those gains are still only in fractions of percentage points.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 08, 2005
XenSource announced this week that it is shipping version 3.0 of its Xen system virtualization environment built on the open source Xen hypervisor.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 08, 2005
Wave of new developer and IT exams in beta testing during December.
- By Michael Domingo
- December 08, 2005
Microsoft plans to post two security bulletins for Windows next Tuesday, and at least one of them addresses a critical vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 08, 2005
It's critical for Microsoft to demonstrate strong partner support for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 launch this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 07, 2005
FullArmor is shipping PolicyPortal, a Web services-based tool designed to automatically enforce Active Directory Group Policy settings on computers that are disconnected from the directory, either temporarily or permanently.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 07, 2005
Microsoft officials plan to appeal an antitrust ruling against the company by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 07, 2005