A crowd of third-party software firms – including Borland and IBM Tivoli -- announced new and updated products on the first day of Microsoft’s annual TechEd 2005 conference in Orlando.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 08, 2005
Welcome to the world's largest beta program. Microsoft is the ultimate "dogfood" company, testing its products on its own network, a global information system encompassing approximately 300,000 devices, 104,000 e-mail accounts and 89,000 end users spread out over 83 countries.
- By Keith Ward
- June 08, 2005
SQL Server 2005 got its first independently audited public scalability test this week when Hewlett-Packard posted results of a run of the database against the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C and TPC-H benchmarks.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 08, 2005
ORLANDO, Fla. -- SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 will launch the week of Nov. 7, Microsoft senior vice president Paul Flessner said Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 07, 2005
At Microsoft’s TechEd 2005 in Orlando this week, Borland announced it will integrate its CaliberRM requirements management product to work inside of Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS 2005). The CaliberRM plug-in for VSTS will ship in the first quarter of 2006, according to company officials.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 07, 2005
Microsoft on Monday began shipping Windows Server Update Services, its second-generation technology for patching systems in medium-sized organizations and enterprises.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 06, 2005
Microsoft will add support for the RAW digital photo format in Windows. It will be provided as an add-on to Windows XP and natively in the Longhorn release of Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 02, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released to manufacturing its Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, the real-time communications client formerly known by the code-name "Istanbul."
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2005
Microsoft will make XML-based file formats the default for its forthcoming "Office 12" version of Office, which is scheduled for release late in 2006. While Microsoft supported XML file formats in Office 2003, the formats weren't the defaults and XML functionality was only available in certain high-end versions of the Office suite.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2005
VIA Technologies showed off the latest iteration of its x86-compatible CPU for notebook computers at the Computex 2005 trade show in Taiwan this week, touting the chip’s low power requirements.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 02, 2005
With the advent of cell phone viruses and Bluetooth worms, it was bound to happen. PatchLink is readying an upgrade to its eponymous flagship patch management tool aimed at adding patch support for smartphones and wireless PDAs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 02, 2005
Windows management software heavyweight Quest Software will buy Vintela Inc., a newer firm specializing in integrating Unix and Linux systems into Active Directory, for
$56.5 million in cash, the companies announced this week. Quest expects the deal to close late in the second quarter or early in the third quarter, assuming regulators approve.
- By Scott Bekker and Stuart J. Johnston
- June 01, 2005
HP will ship by mid-June three new additions to its t5000 line of thin clients, finally answering customers’ questions as to what the company will do now that Transmeta is exiting the thin client processor business, and taking aim at low-priced competitors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 01, 2005
AMD announced this week it is shipping the first dual-core 64-bit Athlon CPU for desktops right on schedule. The company had said in late April that it would ship them in June and beat that by a day.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 01, 2005
A recent survey of security and law enforcement executives shows that
the fight against electronic crimes (e-crimes) continues to be an
uphill battle.
- By Russ Cooper
- June 01, 2005
Factory revenues for Unix servers and Windows servers were equal for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2005, according to market researchers at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 31, 2005
AMD released the complete specification of its “Pacifica” chip-level virtualization technology for its 64-bit processors this week, joining Intel in the rush to build chip support for running multiple operating systems simultaneously.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 27, 2005
IBM is shipping two new toolkits that combine technologies from two of its middleware businesses – Rational and Tivoli – to help developers and operators diagnose problems in production code while it’s running.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 26, 2005
FullArmor is shipping the latest release of its IntelliPolicy user policy-enforcement client for Windows desktops.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 25, 2005
Microsoft updated its server software platform for speech-enabled applications this week with an R2 version of Microsoft Speech Server 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 25, 2005