Microsoft completed the acquisition of Sybari Software on Tuesday and announced product plans, which include discontinuing new sales of the secure messaging company's products for Linux and Unix platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday posted a blocker tool to help organizations prevent Automatic Updates from automatically downloading and installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 on their systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Microsoft named its top European executive, Jean-Philippe Courtois, to a newly created position of Microsoft International president, in which he will lead international sales, marketing and services.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Microsoft is taking the Web-enablement concept that produced Outlook Web Access and extending it to its new real-time communication client, Microsoft Office Communicator.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Quest Software is shipping the latest release of a tool designed to simplify migration from Novell NDS to Microsoft Active Directory.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
As part of its monthly patch release this week, Microsoft re-released three older security bulletins to fix various problems with them.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2005
Microsoft will deliver its Windows Server 2003, Compute Cluster Edition, for high-performance grid computing in two pieces to offer customers maximum flexibility in deployment, a senior Microsoft product manager says.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2005
Tampa Bay, Fla.-based Sunbelt Software released version 1.5 of its CounterSpy Enterprise anti-spyware detection and removal tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
San Diego-based St. Bernard Software announced it is shipping of SpyExpert, a standalone anti-spyware software solution for small-to-medium-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
Titus Labs began shipping MessageRights version 2.5, which adds features that make it easier to deploy and use Microsoft’s Windows Rights Management Services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
Microsoft's monthly bundle of patches for June is one of the biggest since the company switched to a monthly patching cycle, and it brings fixes for 12 vulnerabilities, including three critical issues.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 14, 2005
New Boundary Technologies says it will ship next month a suite that bundles its existing software deployment and patch management products with a new tool for asset management.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 14, 2005
During a presentation at Microsoft TechEd 2005 this month, the Microsoft Security Response Center summarized all of the most important Microsoft security resources available to IT and consumers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 13, 2005
Veritas Software said it will ship next month the latest version of its high availability storage management solution for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 09, 2005
TNT Software says it will ship this month version 4.0 of its ELM Enterprise Manager.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 09, 2005
How would you like to pay for a four-processor server that really has eight chips inside? How about if you won't have to pay for those extra chips unless and until you use them? Talk to Unisys.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
The versions of Windows XP stripped of Windows Media Player to comply with a European Commission order will start shipping this month, Microsoft said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
Microsoft put IT departments on alert Thursday that its monthly patch bundle, scheduled for next Tuesday, will be a monster.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
Microsoft this week followed IBM and Oracle in publicly committing to delivering infrastructure software to support radio frequency identification (RFID) scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
VMware debuted its new VMware Technology Network (VMTN). The service includes pre-built virtual machines from leading software vendors, a subscription to a VMware’s products for software development and testing, and a Web site that provides a raft of technical resources.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 09, 2005