Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 07, 2005
Microsoft will put some of the fruits of its $5-billion-per-year R&D operation on the auction block, offering to license the technologies to entrepreneurs for a fee and a cut of the profits.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2005
Microsoft has a $12 upgrade program to encourage customers running 32-bit Windows XP Professional on machines with x64 processors to make the jump to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The software giant warns, however, that customers need to proceed carefully with respect to their hardware.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2005
Mixed signals in the United States and slower growth in Western Europe and Japan to slow IT spending growth through 2005, analyst firm says.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2005
May will be a light month for security bulletins from Microsoft. The software giant plans to release only one bulletin during its monthly Patch Tuesday next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2005
Stumped about how to prepare for 64-bit Windows now and in Longhorn? A Gartner analyst recently laid out a roadmap for organizations to follow in evaluating x64 versions of Microsoft Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 04, 2005
IBM announced late Wednesday a restructuring that will result in layoffs of as many as 13,000 workers, primarily in Europe, and a pre-tax charge of up to $1.7 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 04, 2005
The security organization says the rate at which threats are emerging requires more regular updates to its closely watched list. New to the SANS Institute list are seven Microsoft vulnerabilities and problems with products from Computer Associates, Oracle, antivirus companies and media player companies.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 03, 2005
Cisco Systems on Tuesday launched a key component of its Self Defending Network initiative when it delivered the first of its Adaptive Server Appliance 5500 Series family of multi-function network security appliances.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 03, 2005
Microsoft released eight security bulletins in April. According to our analysis,
one is critical, one important and another noteworthy. The rest can be applied
with the next service pack or major version upgrade.
- By Russ Cooper
- May 03, 2005
IBM has released three new XML development tools for its Emerging Technologies Toolkit, a collection of free tools aimed at familiarizing developers with areas that the company sees as strategic to its vision of computing going forward.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- May 03, 2005
ScriptLogic is shipping version 6.5 of its Desktop Authority PC administration package. The upgrade makes improvements in file and registry security operations, Windows firewall control and inactivity timers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 27, 2005
SEATTLE -- Microsoft held a session at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference Wednesday on "Internet Explorer today and tomorrow," although the working title could have as easily been "Internet Explorer eight months ago."
- By Scott Bekker
- April 27, 2005
Sun Microsystems plans to ship versions of its Sun Fire V40z server in May that will be available with up to four of AMD’s new dual-core, 64-bit Opteron processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 27, 2005
A new service pack out for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services adds several end-user features, as well as standard bug fixes, to the free add-on for the SQL Server database.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 2005
SEATTLE -- Attendees to Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week were treated to a kit of DVDs, including one eagerly awaited item -- another pre-beta version of the Windows Longhorn operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 2005
Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer at International Paper, will assume the same job at Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 2005
SEATTLE -- Windows XP Media Center Edition sales topped 1 million in the six months since the launch of the most recent edition, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 2005
SEATTLE -- Dell and HP took advantage of this week’s delivery of Microsoft’s Windows x64 editions to announce that they will soon begin shipping computers that run the 64-bit operating systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 26, 2005
Microsoft plans to post a public beta of Windows Server 2003 "R2" this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 25, 2005