Microsoft made the first Release Candidate for Windows Server 2003 R2 available for download Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 31, 2005
Are we stating the obvious when we reveal that Windows Server 2003 dominates on servers among our readership? How about if we told you that it wasn't total and utter domination?
- By Michael Domingo
- August 31, 2005
Adomo Inc. releases a voice-messaging platform for Exchange and Active Directory.
- By Dan Hong
- August 31, 2005
Microsoft completed the acquisition of managed e-mail services provider FrontBridge Technologies and is beginning the process of integrating FrontBridge into the Exchange Server Group, the company said Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 31, 2005
IBM will ship next month software to provide what’s called “continuous data protection” for end users. Meanwhile, competition in that space is heating up as Veritas prepares to enter the fray with its own offering.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 31, 2005
IBM says it will ship next month a new four-processor Xeon server based on the company’s new X3 computing architecture as well as a new workstation built around Intel’s dual-core Pentium D.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 30, 2005
A year after pulling the "WinFS" storage subsystem from the Windows "Longhorn" (now Vista) client OS, Microsoft posted a surprise beta of the technology for developers on MSDN on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 30, 2005
From the business wires this week: management systems for Group Policy-based patching and user access control, a backup and recovery program for Novell NetWare servers, and more.
- By Dan Hong
- August 26, 2005
Almost everything about the Zobot worm has played out like a regular computer security crisis on fast forward. From the emergence of a series of worms within days of a Microsoft patch to Microsoft's release of workarounds and a removal tool to, now, the arrest of suspects.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2005
The age of the traditional private branch exchange (PBX) is ending, according to analysts at In-Stat.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 25, 2005
“User-aware” computing is coming. That was part of the message at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The twice-yearly event is a springboard for the chip giant to launch new ideas and strategies – both near and long-term.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 25, 2005
Microsoft posted the Community Technology Preview of Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 last week, bringing the final version of SP2, a bundle of bug fixes and substantial new functionality for the messaging server, one step closer to its expected delivery later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 25, 2005
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP1 becomes Virtual Server 2005 R2. A post-R2 version of Virtual Server is added to the roadmap for 2006 delivery. The company reconfirms its commitment to eventually pulling virtualization technology into Longhorn Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 25, 2005
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled tools to make it easier to include Instant Message-style presence information from Live Communications Server 2005 in business processes and line-of-business applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 25, 2005
Microsoft Software Update Services got a six-month support extension to Dec. 6, 2006, the company said Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 24, 2005
Microsoft posted a security advisory to warn customers using "Simple File and Print Sharing" on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 1 that they are at increased risk for the flaw patched two weeks ago in bulletin MS05-039.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 24, 2005
- By Paul Desmond
- August 24, 2005
As expected, Intel told attendees at this week’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco that the next generation of its processors will follow a low-power path to reduce heat leakage while still providing higher performance than ever.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 24, 2005
Winternals Software is shipping version 4 of its Defrag Manager utility for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 23, 2005
Epicor Software says it will ship in the fourth quarter a major update to its enterprise portal solution that uses Microsoft’s SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Portal Server as its underlying infrastructure.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 23, 2005