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
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