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
Aderant announces the upcoming release of its .NET-based Back Office financial management solution.
- By Dan Hong
- August 23, 2005
AssetMetrix has added software license management to the list of services it provides through its subscription-based asset management service for IT.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 23, 2005
From the business wires this week: a database development suite for Windows XP, an enterprise defragmentation solution, a Windows Server security appliance and more.
- By Dan Hong
- August 19, 2005
This year’s winners in Microsoft Excel and Word Specialist exams hail from Switzerland and England.
- By Dan Hong
- August 19, 2005
Microsoft outsources its global training program to Certiport, based on its success with Microsoft Office Specialist.
- By Dan Hong
- August 19, 2005
Even as a Microsoft advisory took an unnamed group of security researchers to task for releasing information about the flaw and exploit code publicly, Microsoft itself was scolded by incident handlers at the SANS Institute for providing an infrastructure with IE that allows such attacks in the first place.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 19, 2005
The second coming of Microsoft's MCP exam retake promotion is coming to an end on August 31, 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- August 18, 2005
Microsoft plans to bolster the Software Assurance component of its volume licensing program next month with several additional benefits covering deployment services, enhanced support, training and exclusive software, according to a source familiar with Microsoft's plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 18, 2005
According to a senior Microsoft executive, Microsoft is introducing
what he calls a "big change" to Visual Studio 2005 in the August
Community Technology Preview that is coming out shortly. Such a major change is unusual for a product this late in the development cycle.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 17, 2005
Microsoft plans to release a Community Technology Preview of
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 17, 2005
CNN, New York Times, Caterpillar and others reported serious problems
from worms stemming from the Plug and Play vulnerability in
Windows 2000. Microsoft continues to rate the worms a low threat.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 17, 2005
VMware announced this week it will price its products per CPU and not per core, assuring users that they will not be penalized for moving to emerging multi-core processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 17, 2005
Biometric firm that once targeted government now looks to partners to address SMBs.
- By Michael Domingo
- August 17, 2005
Houston, Texas-based BindView Corp. says this quarter it will ship an update to its regulatory compliance tracking and reporting tool, that adds support for major databases and for Microsoft Exchange.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 17, 2005
As the multi-core duel heats up, Intel moved to steal some thunder from AMD this week by announcing it will ship its first dual-core Xeon CPUs earlier than promised. Additionally, over the weekend, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company slashed prices on several of its Pentium 4 desktop processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 16, 2005
Quest Software this week revealed its initial blueprint for the integration of Vintela technology with Quest tools. Quest bought Vintela in a $57 million deal that closed last month.
- By Doug Barney
- August 16, 2005
A Microsoft official said that a dangerous new worm dubbed Zotob is spreading slowly, but Microsoft is on high alert and the company recommends that customers apply a patch for the Windows Plug and Play vulnerability the worm exploits.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 16, 2005
Hosting.com offers users a chance to test out betas of Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. Also, SyncCast develops a digital music kiosk with partner Mix & Burn.
- By Dan Hong
- August 16, 2005