Microsoft released its third Community Technical Preview for SQL Server 2005 this month with a new ad hoc reporting tool and 64-bit support for more components of Microsoft's flagship database.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 07, 2005
Microsoft will deliver the x64 editions of Windows Server 2003 at the beginning of April and the x64 edition of Windows XP later in the month, Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin said at the Intel Developer Forum this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2005
Intel officials announced new details regarding the company’s upcoming dual and multi-core processors at its Spring 2005 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, including a two-year timeline for the arrival of key chips and technologies.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 03, 2005
Critics associate Bill Gates with an "Evil Empire," but Microsoft's chairman is now formally attached to an official empire.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2005
Computer Associates’ eTrust division this week announced a new “security management architecture” that will eventually permeate its entire line of security and identity management tools. At the same time, it began shipping new versions of two of its eTrust products that take advantage of the new architecture.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 03, 2005
After releasing 12 security bulletins in February, Microsoft has zero new security bulletins on tap for March.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2005
VMware and Intel announced this week that the virtualization software vendor is customizing its mainstream products to work with the chipmaker’s upcoming “Vanderpool” chip-level virtualization technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- March 02, 2005
Two Web analytics companies that track usage of Web browsers now agree that Microsoft's Internet Explorer usage share is below 90 percent due to competition from the open-source Firefox browser.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 02, 2005
Microsoft also releases a service pack for ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 02, 2005
The non-U.S. server market continues to enjoy strong growth, with Windows and Linux-based servers leading the charge.
- By Keith Ward
- March 01, 2005
When it comes to predicting ship dates for its operating systems, Microsoft is about as accurate as your local weatherman. Keep that in mind when planning for its next-generation OS, code-named Longhorn.
- By Keith Ward
- March 01, 2005
Microsoft has brought in a heavy-hitter from AT&T Wireless and E*TRADE to take over management of the long-delayed Windows Longhorn client.
- By Keith Ward
- March 01, 2005
Amid all the industry-shaking security moves Microsoft unveiled last week, the company also updated its progress on distributing Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- its most far-reaching effort to date to improve the security of the average computer on the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 24, 2005
HP’s ProCurve networking division says it will ship in April its first two WAN routers aimed at SMBs and branch offices, as well as an access control module for its ProCurve 5300xl series switches.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 24, 2005
Microsoft pushed a rare non-security fix to Windows XP users through Automatic Update this week for a problem that can cause the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" in Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 24, 2005
Microsoft will raise prices for SQL Server 2005 compared to SQL Server 2000, but SQL Server will continue to come in a free edition, a new low cost edition is being added and functionality previously reserved for the Enterprise Edition is working its way down to lower cost versions.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 24, 2005
Intel is shipping five 64-bit Pentium 4 processors for use in desktop computers. The release comes on the heels of the company’s shipment earlier this month of early production versions of its dual-core CPUs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 23, 2005
IBM will ship the first of its X3 32/64-bit, dual-core capable servers within 30 days, the company said this week. The eServer xSeries 366 (x366) is the first in a planned IBM family of dual-core-capable Intel-based server offerings.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 23, 2005
Some of Windows NT's oldest subsystem and protocol friends will be left behind when the codebase moves to x64.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 23, 2005
Columnist Russ Cooper would have liked a few more specifics out of Bill Gates' much-anticipated keynote address at the RSA conference last week.
- By Russ Cooper
- February 22, 2005