Microsoft this month started a blog dedicated to its Windows Server family. The Windows Server product team appears poised to use the blog as an information clearinghouse for minor product milestones, such as release candidates and other betas, to float trial balloons for potential features, and as a place to gather user input.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 22, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the purchase of a third-party wizard for implementing Microsoft Axapta.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 22, 2005
Intel announced this week it is shipping upgraded versions of its 64-bit Xeon processors, and also said it will ship new multi-processor Xeons within three months.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 17, 2005
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD announced this week that it will ship two new Opteron processors within the next month, and also announced that Cambridge, England-based startup XenSource will port the Xen open-source system virtualization platform to run on Opteron-based systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 17, 2005
Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition will be generally available in March, eight months after the Standard Edition of the firewall, VPN and Web caching server hit the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 17, 2005
Lucid8 is shipping version 3.1 of its GOexchange automated Exchange maintenance product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 16, 2005
Fresh on the heels of a security-related update of Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is promising a second security-focused overhaul of the browser for Windows XP SP2 systems called Internet Explorer 7.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 16, 2005
Windows "Longhorn" Beta 1 is on track for availability in the first half of this year, a Microsoft official said last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 15, 2005
Gates made the IE announcement during a wide-ranging keynote about Microsoft's security plans at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Gates also said Microsoft will develop its own anti-virus engine, its anti-spyware software will be free for consumer users of Windows, and Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 is released to manufacturing.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 15, 2005
In a recent bout of stupidity, the U.S. Department of Energy apparently
accidentally published confidential Homeland Security Department
documents marked "For Official Use Only", and the documents remain
visible via Google's Web cache.
- By Russ Cooper
- February 15, 2005
Microsoft is doubling the size of the group conducting private tests of the Windows Server 2003 "R2" release, but the test group remains tiny compared to the scope of Microsoft's public betas for operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 15, 2005
Intel announced this week it is already turning out trial production runs of two of its promised dual-core processor models, enabling creation of desktop PCs that can run four separate threads at once. Deliveries of production processors and supporting chipsets will come in the second quarter, a company spokeswoman says.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 10, 2005
Intel is facing a challenger in multi-core processors from a surprising competitor -- a consortium that includes IBM, Sony and Toshiba.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 10, 2005
HP chairman and chief executive officer Carly Fiorina, the architect and champion of HP's controversial 2002 merger with fellow computer giant Compaq Computer, resigned Wednesday at the request of HP's Board of Directors.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2005
Microsoft signed a definitive agreement to buy anti-virus and anti-spam vendor Sybari Software for an undisclosed sum, the companies said on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2005
Microsoft posted second release candidates on Wednesday night for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday delivered its promised heavy load of security bulletins, including two patches for critical flaws already in the public domain.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 08, 2005
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates used the company's first Office System Developer Conference to pitch Office as the obvious smart client for applications being built by the 800 partner developers in the audience.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 08, 2005
Microsoft kicked off its first ever Office System Developer Conference here Wednesday, emphasizing the increasing programmability of the Office suite and its improving integration with other products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 03, 2005
IT departments worldwide should have an exceptionally busy Tuesday next week, evaluating and deploying a flood of patches from Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 03, 2005