Microsoft on Wednesday posted a free security tool in the Microsoft Download Center to help administrators root out unauthorized network sniffers running on Windows computers.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 03, 2005
ScriptLogic is shipping Cloak, a tool that lets systems managers show individual users only those files and directories that they are allowed to access. Like the fabled stealth capability of Klingon warships, files and directories that users are not authorized to access become invisible to them.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 03, 2005
Microsoft's most recent quarterly financial report showed a stumble in the lucrative Office suite's otherwise steady march toward ever-larger revenues. Revenues for the Information Worker unit fell 3 percent compared to the year-ago quarter. On the other hand, profits from the unit shot up 11 percent.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 02, 2005
High-performance computing is becoming more common and less expensive, according to analysts at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 02, 2005
Microsoft's long-awaited direct challenge to Google's Internet search dominance arrived Tuesday with the formal launch of MSN Search.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 01, 2005
The back-and-forth between Microsoft and government regulators about whether Windows "Longhorn" will violate the U.S. antitrust agreement will escalate this month to a face-to-face meeting. Windows XP Service Pack 2 also emerged as a topic for antitrust-related discussion.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 01, 2005
A funny thing's been happening on the security mailing lists lately,
and it's got me shaking my head.
- By Russ Cooper
- February 01, 2005
Microsoft's broad appeal of European Commission antitrust measures will continue, but the company has given up on an effort to put off the remedies until all appeals are exhausted a few years from now.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 27, 2005
Launches new "least privilege" security software in its core line of PolicyMaker products, which provide Group Policy extensions.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 27, 2005
Microsoft this week unveiled its plans to use the technology levers at its disposal to cut off downloads and other benefits for users of counterfeit software.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 27, 2005
Advanced Systems Concepts is shipping ActiveBatch version 5, an upgrade to its enterprise job scheduling and management product that the company says aims to address customers’ emerging need for near real-time batch processing.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 27, 2005
Microsoft reported net income of $3.46 billion on revenues of $10.82 billion for the quarter that ended Dec. 31. Company officials attributed the record revenues to 18 percent growth in the Server and Tools business and the first profitable quarter for Microsoft's Home and Entertainment business.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 27, 2005
Arkeia is shipping a plug-in for hot backup of Microsoft SQL Server databases.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 27, 2005
Microsoft posted the first service pack for BizTalk Server 2004 late Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 27, 2005
Following a November announcement expanding the software, service and solution options for its collaborative services initiative, IBM began delivering on that vision at Lotusphere 2005 in Orlando this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 26, 2005
SAP and Citrix announced this week they have agreed to co-market a software bundle that leverages both companies’ product strengths to provide comprehensive, easy to deploy, integrated applications for small and mid-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 20, 2005
The centerpiece of Microsoft's 2005 Exchange Server delivery schedule, Exchange Edge Services 2005, is officially off the roadmap, but Microsoft this week provided a laundry list of new deliverables this year for the messaging server's customers.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 20, 2005
Microsoft Exchange Server crossed the $1 billion revenue threshold in fiscal 2004, joining Microsoft's enviable stable of products that the software company can rely on for more than a billion dollars in revenues each year.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 20, 2005
Veritas Software, which last month wowed the investment world by announcing it is being acquired by Symantec in what may turn out to be the largest software deal in history, is shipping the latest version of its flagship backup and restore product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 19, 2005
Microsoft this month introduced a new Microsoft Operations Manager Management Pack for the Microsoft Password Change Notification Service.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 19, 2005