After just two releases, Microsoft is trading in its monthly schedule of Windows Vista community technology previews (CTPs) for a new, less predictable schedule of milestone-based CTPs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 01, 2005
Microsoft’s announcement last week that it is submitting its Office 12 Open XML formats to a standards body may have assuaged bureaucrats in the Massachusetts governor’s office, but if anything it has escalated the “open” versus “proprietary” debate.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 01, 2005
Microsoft’s Business Solutions group, along with several ISV partners, announced delivery of a set of Axapta-based, industry-specific ERP solutions.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 30, 2005
Virtualization software publisher VMware is shipping version 5.5 of its Workstation product, which adds new support for 64-bit memory addressing on AMD and Intel systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 30, 2005
European utility developer 1-abc.net is shipping version 1.0 of another new tool for end users, this one designed to help clean up out of date Windows Registry entries.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 30, 2005
Microsoft revises Partner Competency, splitting it into two tracks for technical implementers and security management partners.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 29, 2005
Supercomputer stalwart Cray Inc. disclosed this week that Chief Scientist Burton Smith, a specialist in large-scale, parallel computing architectures, is heading to Microsoft.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 29, 2005
Sales of servers continued at top acceleration in the third quarter, partly driven by customers' increasing deployments of virtualization technologies, while Linux and Windows servers further eroded Unix's high-end turf, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 29, 2005
Microsoft's announcement that it will submit its Office Open XML schemas to a European standards body has apparently softened the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' stance regarding document storage formats.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 29, 2005
ADXStudio releases content management system for .NET Framework 2.0.
- By Dan Hong
- November 28, 2005
Real Enterprise Solutions (RES) plans to ship this month an update to its PowerFuse unified management package for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 22, 2005
Information lifecycle management protection vendor Atempo is shipping an addition to its Time Navigator suite of tools aimed at providing security and compliance for data storage.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 22, 2005
Alero Technology has announced Alero for SharePoint, a collaborative solution for mobile offices that integrates with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2003 to provide repository, content, process and integration capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 22, 2005
In the midst of the acrimonious debate regarding whether Microsoft’s Office Open XML file format is really open or is instead proprietary, the company will submit its schemas to an important European international standards organization.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 22, 2005
Microsoft is warning customers that exploit code is in the public domain for an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer that can allow an attacker to take control of a user's computer over the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 22, 2005
Microsoft quietly announced this week that it has released Beta 2 of BizTalk Server 2006 for download and the product remains on schedule.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 22, 2005
Intervoice releases voice/data solutions for Microsoft Speech Server.
- By Dan Hong
- November 21, 2005
From the business wires: a patch management system, remote management tools and software that prevents online fraud.
- By Dan Hong
- November 18, 2005
Microsoft is shipping Dynamics GP 9.0, an update to its Great Plains accounting package and the first of its rebranded business solutions to appear under the Microsoft Dynamics logo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 17, 2005
Several third-party vendors announced management packs and other products that support Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 at Microsoft’s IT Forum event this week in Barcelona, Spain.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 17, 2005