The first service pack for Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision 4.0 became available to some customers on Monday, marking the start of a tiered release.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 10, 2005
Microsoft also offers to help small businesses pay Microsoft partners for deployment consulting and services.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 10, 2005
A senior Microsoft official in the United Kingdom confirmed this week that no computer manufacturers took up the option to install Windows XP N, the operating system Microsoft created in response to the European Commission decision against it.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2005
Texas picks Winternals Software to provide system recovery solution.
- By Dan Hong
- October 07, 2005
The European Commission, which proved with its 497 million Euro fine and behavioral restrictions last year to be a formidable antitrust adversary for Microsoft, is showing interest in the American software giant's security plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2005
Time Warner Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have restarted discussions about forming an alliance of their Internet units, America Online and MSN, the Wall Street Journal reported in its Friday editions.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2005
From the business wires this week: software for documenting your network’s assets and vulnerabilities, a solution for joining heterogeneous systems to Active Directory, and network time servers.
- By Dan Hong
- October 07, 2005
Professor Neil Barrett, a computer scientist and specialist in researching Internet crime, will serve as a technical advisor to the European Commission on questions of Microsoft's compliance with the EC's 2004 decision against Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2005
Get ready for a huge Microsoft Patch Tuesday next week. The Microsoft Security Response Center is preparing nine security bulletins, according to its Thursday night advance notification e-mail.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2005
A hotfix was posted to the Microsoft Download Center on Friday for users who ran into trouble with Serial Bus Protocol 2 devices after installing Windows XP Service Pack 2.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2005
The official position out of Microsoft on Windows XP Service Pack 3 is, Yes we're working on SP3, and stop asking about it.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2005
Microsoft on Thursday formally unveiled its much-anticipated corporate client protection software that combines the anti-virus and spyware technologies the company has been developing since purchasing GeCAD Software in mid-2003 and Giant Company Software in late 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 06, 2005
Lifecycle management tool vendor Altiris says it is readying a virtualization product for release later this year aimed at driving down support costs and making operations more efficient by eliminating application conflicts.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 06, 2005
Microsoft's first major release of the product since buying Sybari earlier this year will enter beta testing in the first half of 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 06, 2005
Even as the SQL Server 2005 launch takes place in San Francisco Nov. 7, Microsoft will be quietly giving developers and ISVs inside details on the next version of its other major back-end server -- Exchange.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 05, 2005
As an enterprise IT pro, you may think Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is beneath you. For most of the needs of your enterprise organization, that's true. But in cases where you might want to install SBS, say for a home business on the side, your enterprise experience with Microsoft products might blind you to useful features and expose you to common gotchas in this unique server.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 05, 2005
Microsoft cites priority developing SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 exams, as well as sim refinements based on testers' feedback.
- By Michael Domingo
- October 05, 2005
NuView is shipping version 3.5 of its File Lifecycle Manager (FLM) package, a policy-based data administration tool for managing the lifecycles of file data on storage appliances from its OEM partner, Network Appliance (NetApp).
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 05, 2005
ScriptLogic is shipping version 5.0 of its Security Explorer file permission management and server security tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 05, 2005
Sun Microsystems and Google announced an initiative Tuesday to further collaboration between the Java creator and the search engine Goliath.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 04, 2005