Microsoft climbed five spots to reach 46th in the annual Fortune 500 ranking of the largest companies in the United States by revenues.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 05, 2005
If you haven't installed Windows XP Service Pack 2, and feel Microsoft's April 12 deadline bearing down, you're not alone.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 05, 2005
Microsoft filed 117 "John Doe" lawsuits against phishing site operators in an effort to curtail the identity theft scams.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 31, 2005
HP is shipping two redesigned ProLiant servers that use Intel’s new 64-bit Xeon four-processor architected “Truland” processors. At the same time, the company disclosed it is discontinuing its eight-processor, Xeon-based ProLiant servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 31, 2005
HP this week announced it has hired Carly Fiorina’s replacement. The new CEO is Mark Hurd, a 25-year NCR executive whose most recent post was as president and CEO of the Ohio-based computermaker.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 31, 2005
During Intel's launch of the "Truland" computing platform this week, a Microsoft executive laid out a roadmap of products that will be x64 and multi-core enabled this year and next.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday night released to manufacturing the long-awaited Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. The company also released to manufacturing the x64 editions of Windows Server and Windows XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2005
A day after publicly accepting the European Commission's suggestion for naming the European version of Windows XP without Windows Media Player, Microsoft announced some further measures to comply with commission requirements.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2005
Intel on Tuesday launched its "Truland" platform, which represents the first time the chip giant has offered x86-based 64-bit extensions for the Intel Xeon processor MP chips designed for four-way and larger servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 29, 2005
Microsoft is working on a technology for Windows Longhorn called "Info-cards" that is designed to return control of personal data, such as credit cards and Social Security numbers, to users, according to a report published this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 29, 2005
Over the weekend, Microsoft posted the "Indigo" and "Avalon" community technology previews for free to anyone with the bandwidth to download them.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 28, 2005
Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 were both found to
be vulnerable to a very old form of Denial of Service attack known as a
"Land" attack. The attack involves sending a packet to a machine with
the source host/port the same as the destination host/port. This
results in the system attempting to reply to itself, causing it to lock
up.
- By Russ Cooper
- March 28, 2005
Microsoft and the European Commission settled on names for the version of Windows XP stripped of the Windows Media Player-- Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional Edition N.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 28, 2005
Market research house IDC lowered its PC growth forecast this week for 2005 from the low double digits to the high single digits.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2005
Microsoft on Wednesday added retired J.P. Morgan Chase chief financial officer Dina Dublon to its board of directors and announced a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2005
Microsoft is talking up a number of goodies for server infrastructure customers this month. They include a new version of the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Tool, new customer guidance on isolating servers and domains for security and a new version of the iSCSI Software Initiator.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2005
A small Redmond, Wash.-based startup is shipping a new twist on outsourcing and turnkey solutions – a cluster of Exchange 2003 servers in a single box, replete with subscription-based third-party management, monitoring and maintenance. And, no, that’s not a cutesy turn of phrase referring to Microsoft.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 23, 2005
Dell Wednesday rolled out two new high-performance, four-processor servers targeted at database processing and other enterprise-level data center uses. The company also announced the Data Center Environment Assessment, a service aimed at helping customers analyze their current data centers in order to appropriately design for air flow and power requirements of more demanding server environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 23, 2005
IBM and VMware announced Wednesday that the computer giant will ship six-month trial versions of VMware’s virtualization products with its blade servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 23, 2005
Microsoft this week unveiled pricing for its Visual Studio 2005 family of integrated development environment products.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2005