HP announced this week it has passed the $1 billion mark in sales of business solutions based on its Integrity servers during fiscal 2004, and tossed in the immediate availability of the newest Itanium 2 processors in its server line to boot.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 19, 2005
For the next version of Exchange Server, code-named "Exchange 12," Microsoft is investing in unified messaging, improved search and 64-bit support among other things, company officials said during a press tour on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 19, 2005
With three versions of BizTalk Server out the door, Microsoft recently began discussing versions four and five of the business integration server software.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 19, 2005
As requirements demanding companies be able to find, retrieve and protect e-mail and other electronic records become coded into our legal and regulatory institutions, the market for e-mail archiving applications is exploding.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 18, 2005
Microsoft hired a former IT consultant and IBM executive to run the Navision segment of Microsoft Business Solutions.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 18, 2005
Worldwide e-mail usage boomed in 2004, according to a new study by the Radicati Group.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 18, 2005
BMC Software announced it is buying French identity management software developer Calendra for $33 million.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 13, 2005
VMware is shipping ACE, a PC virtualization product designed to protect corporate data and other electronic assets even when the work is being done offsite by outsiders.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 13, 2005
Microsoft filed a development agreement this week with the city of Redmond, Wash., committing to expanding its corporate headquarters there.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 12, 2005
Longtime Microsoft executive John Connors is leaving the company to join a venture capital firm.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 12, 2005
Intel spin-off LANDesk announced this week that it is shipping Server Manager 8.5, which provides significant enhancements to the seven-year-old server management tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 12, 2005
Operating in the gray area between support and non-support, Microsoft chose to freely distribute the one new security bulletin that affected Windows NT Server 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 days after official support of the operating system expired.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 11, 2005
There was a flurry of discussion regarding a possible WINS
worm due to a spike in WINS port 42 traffic.
- By Russ Cooper
- January 11, 2005
Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 11, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 11, 2005
Microsoft offered a widespread beta of a new anti-spyware tool for Windows users on Thursday. The availability of the software marked an extremely quick rebranding and rerelease of the anti-spyware technology Microsoft purchased last month from Giant Company Software.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2005
Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2005
ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 06, 2005
It's always interesting to look back and see which stories attracted the most attention from you over the last year in terms of clicks.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 05, 2005
Over the holidays, VMware began beta testing Workstation 5, the latest update to the company’s five-year-old desktop virtualization platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2005