SEATTLE -- Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates on Monday launched the x64 editions of Windows and gave a public preview of the much-anticipated Windows "Longhorn" user interface at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
- By Scott Bekker
- April 25, 2005
AMD began delivering its first dual-core Opteron 64-bit CPUs in quantity this week, and HP announced its first servers based on the technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 22, 2005
Borland is shipping a major release of its modeling suite for Visual Studio. Among key new features, Together 2005 for Visual Studio.Net adds support for Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 and introduces a role-based work model.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 21, 2005
As the dual-core duel heats up, IBM announced Thursday that it is about to ship a workstation based on AMD’s dual-core chips.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 21, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of the first service pack for Virtual Server 2005. The service pack delivers support for Windows Server 2003 x64 editions and performance improvements.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 20, 2005
Dell this week began offering Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Workgroup Edition on its PowerEdge servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 20, 2005
Softricity will ship this quarter its ZeroTouch software aimed at enabling end users to self-provision applications over the network – and in a protected “virtualized” environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 20, 2005
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 causes problems with 14 high-profile server applications, including Exchange Server 2003, according to a Knowledge Base article published by the software vendor this month. Most of the problems, including the Exchange issue, are minor or obscure.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 20, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced two new systems management products it will ship later this year under the System Center family name.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 19, 2005
Microsoft this week posted new test versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio and .NET came out in Beta 2 versions. Tightly coupled with those public betas is a feature-complete SQL Server Community Technology Preview (CTP).
- By Scott Bekker
- April 19, 2005
Security researchers this week reported a flaw in the memory handling of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that powers the Microsoft Office Access database.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 14, 2005
Brazil is the sixth country in line for a Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft's nationality-specific versions of stripped-down Windows offered at lower cost to appeal to first-time PC buyers.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 14, 2005
Next week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Microsoft will reposition System Center as a naming umbrella to cover its family of management products rather than the specific management suite that would have included Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 14, 2005
Virtualization software publisher VMware is shipping version 5 of its Workstation product, which adds new simulation and testing features as well as support for several 64-bit operating systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 13, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday released a public beta of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, a new disk-based backup and recovery server for Windows file servers that was previously called Data Protection Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 13, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday released eight security bulletins as part of its monthly patching cycle. Five of the patches addressed critical security flaws, while three fixed important security bugs. Microsoft also released two non-security updates for Windows and re-released two security bulletins.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 12, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday released a special Enterprise Update Scan Tool to help organizations find computers vulnerable to an MSN Messenger flaw that the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) would miss.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 12, 2005
Microsoft completed the $120 million acquisition of Groove Networks last week, after quickly overcoming a shareholder challenge from a dissatisfied former Groove executive.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 12, 2005
Microsoft and Gateway settled differences resulting from the U.S. v. Microsoft antitrust case with the announcement of a $150 payment from Microsoft that Gateway will use in part to develop and sell systems running Windows and Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 12, 2005
A new edition of the Microsoft Office 2003 suite will try to attract small business users with an accounting program tailored to their needs. Microsoft Office Small Business Management Edition is slated for public availability in "early fall," Microsoft said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 07, 2005