A year after Microsoft paid nearly $2 billion to Sun Microsystems to settle legal claims and license technologies in a 10-year technical collaboration, some undisclosed amount of money is starting to flow the other way.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2005
Microsoft has distributed enough copies of Service Pack 1 to update nearly one-fifth of the installed base of Windows Server 2003, the company estimated on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2005
As details trickle out on Microsoft's "Eiger" operating system for less powerful PCs, analysts at Gartner are offering usage recommendations for the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2005
NetIQ will ship this month a bundle of existing management tools that aims to help small and medium-sized businesses meet regulatory compliance requirements for recent laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA acts.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 18, 2005
A social engineering attack resulted in secure e-mail service provider
Hushmail having its Website redirected to a defaced site. According
to reports, Network Solutions, the Domain Name Service provider
behemoth, gave out information through a customer support line
sufficient to allow an attacker to alter DNS record information for
Hushmail.com.
- By Russ Cooper
- May 17, 2005
Internet Explorer 7.0 will include the tabbed browsing feature already present in several rival browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Netscape, Microsoft developers confirmed this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2005
The Windows Server Roadmap, a handy document on Microsoft's Web site with rough delivery date guidance, got an update this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2005
It's not easy to turn years of animosity between two massive corporations into a working technical collaboration.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2005
As it launched a consumer search toolbar with desktop search capabilities on Monday, Microsoft revealed that it is working on a corporate version of desktop search.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2005
A U.S.-based carrier is onboard with Microsoft's MapPoint Location Server, providing a major boost to Microsoft's fledgling server software for real-time tracking and management of vehicle fleets and highly mobile employees.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2005
In an effort to reduce the pain users face in combing through Licensing 6.0 documentation, Microsoft this week previewed a change coming in July to its massive Product Use Rights document.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 12, 2005
PGP Corp. is shipping updates to both its desktop and server encryption products aimed at centralizing policy management and expanding enterprise management features.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 12, 2005
Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
RSA Security announced Wednesday that it will ship in June a tool to help IT organizations that are already using the company’s event-logging software to comply with new rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and other regulations.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 12, 2005
A free download available from Microsoft on Thursday brings support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to Windows XP Service Pack 2.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 12, 2005
Microsoft unveiled "Maestro" this week and released a private beta of the server-based business performance management scorecard application.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 11, 2005
IBM is readying two upcoming releases of its IBM Director systems management tool for Intel platforms, as well as a toolkit to enable third-parties to integrate their own tools with Director.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 11, 2005
A year after publicly declaring an end to their longstanding feud, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft plan a news conference on Friday to discuss progress in their relationship.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 11, 2005
Dell Inc. chairman and founder Michael Dell is investing $100 million in Red Hat, the Linux distributor that often stands in as a symbol for the open-source movement's challenge to Microsoft's OS dominance.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 11, 2005
As planned, Microsoft released only one security bulletin for May in its monthly Patch Tuesday event today. The bulletin patches an "important" flaw in Windows 2000 that can allow an attacker to take control of a vulnerable computer over the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 10, 2005