- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2005
When SQL Server 2005 is released to manufacturing in the next few months, Microsoft will take the exceptional step of designating one of its high-profile features as being intended for evaluation only.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2005
Tuesday’s highly-anticipated ruling by the judge hearing Microsoft’s ongoing lawsuit against Google was a bittersweet irony with both sides declaring victory. The suit itself will grind on until trial early next year, however.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 14, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday posted version 2 of the Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 less than three months after originally releasing the security-focused update. The new version addresses four serious problems with the original Update Rollup but does not fix several issues with prominent third-party software.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2005
NuView will ship in the next month a new product aimed at providing fast, on-demand file restoration following a failure or for routine maintenance.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 14, 2005
Microsoft has been pushing the idea of partners helping other partners for some time now, as has the IAMCP.
- By Paul Desmond
- September 14, 2005
Microsoft posted a second beta of its "Monad" shell, the interactive command-line and task-based scripting technology that appears to be on a separate timetable from the Windows Vista release.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2005
Microsoft's on-again, off-again Windows Sidebar feature, a prominent new interface element that could make it into the Windows Vista desktop, is definitely on again.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2005
Sun Microsystems introduced three new AMD Opteron x64-based servers this week – servers it says begin a new generation of 64-bit x86, multi-core systems. To round out the offering, the company announced four new storage products as well.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 13, 2005
Due to quality concerns, Microsoft cancelled the release of a critical security bulletin for Windows that was supposed to be posted on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2005
Microsoft is distributing a Community Technology Preview of Windows Vista to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference 2005 in Los Angeles this week. The September Vista CTP, loaded with new features, comes fast on the heels of Windows Vista Beta 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2005
Microsoft showed off Office 12 publicly for the first time on Tuesday, featuring user interface changes that the company describes as the "biggest, most visible change to the way the core Office applications work since the introduction of the toolbar in 1997."
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2005
Microsoft's WinFS, or Windows Future Storage, is the descendent of several abandoned projects dating back to Cairo to overhaul the way Windows handles storage. With the delivery of a beta release of WinFS last month, Microsoft brought chairman Bill Gates' long-standing dream of unified storage one large step closer to reality.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2005
Whenever Microsoft talked about WinFS in the past, the emphasis was on the technology's usefulness for search and file navigation.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2005
When it comes to storage, Microsoft has several important enhancements in its product lineup. One is the Windows Server 2003 R2 release, which will bring a number of new storage features to the server OS. The other is a brand new product for backup and restore that launches at the end of this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2005
After acknowledging the need for a server-side piece of WinFS a year ago, Microsoft is quiet about it for now.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 12, 2005
At a time when security threats are multiplying for corporate instant messaging users, IMlogic says it has a solution. The Waltham, Mass. company just shipped its Real-Time Threat Protection System – and if that just doesn’t roll right off the tongue, call it RTTPS for short.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 08, 2005
Readers report a significant increase in salary over last year's survey results.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 08, 2005
- By Becky Nagel
- September 08, 2005
IBM Lotus officials announced on Wednesday that the company is shipping version 7 of its Notes and Domino collaboration platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 08, 2005