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
The catch: You must be enrolled in an IT Academy. Also, exam retakes to be revived for IT Academy students.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 17, 2005
Microsoft announced the long-awaited debut of the Office "12" technical beta, a limited release that will go out to 10,000 selected customers and partners globally.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 17, 2005
A tool Microsoft posted on its Website this week to make licensing choices more transparent for IT end users should help partners engage with customers at a higher, more productive level, a senior Microsoft executive said.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 16, 2005
SEATTLE – Not satisfied with a place in the data center, Microsoft is making a play for the laboratory, too. Chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates told a standing room only audience at the Supercomputing 2005 conference held here this week that it has released the second beta test version of its upcoming high-performance computing (HPC) edition of Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 16, 2005
The changes to the Microsoft Partner Program that the company originally outlined in July got a soft launch this week in preparation for the full rollout in January.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 16, 2005
Microsoft this week released its Windows Desktop Search tool for enterprise users at its annual IT Forum event in Barcelona, Spain. Not surprisingly, in the face of competition for the search space with Google, it’s a free download.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 16, 2005
Network Instruments this month released Observer 11, the latest version of its network traffic analysis software.
- By Dan Hong
- November 16, 2005
Microsoft has seen the future and it is 64-bits. That’s the message coming out of the company’s European IT Forum 2005 this week in Barcelona, Spain.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 16, 2005
SWsoft this week began shipping version 3.5 of its Virtuozzo server virtualization software for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 15, 2005
Microsoft and content management vendor Open Text announced a strategic relationship this week that they say will foster closer cooperation between the two firms’ products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 15, 2005
Intel said this week that some PC manufacturers have started delivering desktop PCs based on the first CPUs that implement its Virtualization Technology (VT). The vendors identified by Intel include Acer and Lenovo.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 15, 2005
Winternals to present on dealing with malware at InnoTech conference.
- By Dan Hong
- November 14, 2005
From the business wires this week: hosting solutions and other tools for SQL Server 2005.
- By Dan Hong
- November 11, 2005
HP this week rolled out new and updated items in its print management portfolio aimed at simplifying life for IT administrators, including a universal printer driver and an updated Web-based administration tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 10, 2005
Microsoft and Cisco have announced they plan to support Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE), a method for delivering Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and streaming media through Network Address Translation (NAT) filters on firewalls.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 10, 2005
Anti-virus firms have discovered the first known trojan horse program to hide inside the Sony digital rights management (DRM) software that critics say is downloaded without consent to users' PCs.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 10, 2005
Although formally launched on Monday, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 won't be generally available until Dec. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 09, 2005
ScriptLogic Corp. is shipping version 7.0 of its Desktop Authority system management package, adding desktop hardware and software inventory, role-based administration and power management capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 09, 2005
Every five years or so, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates has an attack of paranoia that the company has just missed the boat on the latest technology trend, and subsequently issues a memo to rally the troops in the new direction.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 09, 2005