IBM, the company that transformed personal computers from a hobby to an industry with the introduction of its PC line in 1981, will bow out of the increasingly low-margin market through a partnership with the Chinese firm, Lenovo Group Limited.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 08, 2004
HP will ship this month a new addition to the company’s lineup of OpenView Server Change and Management products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 07, 2004
Microsoft posted the release candidate version of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to its Download Center on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 07, 2004
Microsoft shipped a lot of management tools in 2004. A few minor pieces are on the calendar for delivery in 2005, but most of Microsoft's development work these days when it comes to administration and management is focused on the plumbing that connects Microsoft products.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 06, 2004
Less than a month from Windows NT 4.0 Server's official end of life, Microsoft on Friday announced that it will offer custom support contracts for large customers running the aging operating system through the end of 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2004
Microsoft released its second SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview on Friday, giving customers another taste of the long-awaited "Yukon" version of SQL Server now planned for a mid-2005 release.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2004
The new release of MessageLabs’ anti-spam service provides corporate users with an added layer of protection from spurious e-mails by incorporating Symantec’s Brightmail technology as well as by bulking up MessageLabs’ own spam filtering technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 03, 2004
Executive Software is shipping a patch management module for automating installation of Microsoft security patches that can be used either by itself or as part of the company’s Sitekeeper systems management suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 02, 2004
Analysts at Gartner expect tough times ahead for the PC industry.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2004
Microsoft on Wednesday released a security patch for the critical Internet Explorer flaw that was being exploited through compromised Web banner servers. Microsoft considered the flaw, which has been public for about a month, important enough to release the patch ahead of its normal patching day, which falls on Dec. 14 this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 01, 2004
A widespread crash of Windows desktop systems threw the United Kingdom's Department of Work and Pensions into disarray for several days last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 30, 2004
Factory revenues for Windows servers and Unix servers were "essentially equal" in IDC's market share report for the third quarter, marking a potential turning point for the Windows server market.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 30, 2004
A Dutch Web analytics provider released statistics this month showing that market share for the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser fell below 90 percent for the first time in several years as Mozilla browsers surged to 7.35 percent.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 30, 2004
It may not be time to retire the term "Wintel" yet.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 30, 2004
Attackers defaced the SCO Website at least twice in recent days -- in one case changing the company's logo to "We own all your code, pay us all your money," and in the other case claiming the company was preparing to sue Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 30, 2004
Tidal Software is shipping an update to its performance and availability management software for SAP on Windows that takes advantage of just released Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 29, 2004
Security experts are warning users to lock down unused ports after an exploit surfaced for an unpatched flaw in Microsoft WINS.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 29, 2004
Another version of Sober is getting attention from the major security companies.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 29, 2004
Sonasoft has bundled its backup and recovery products for major Microsoft systems into a comprehensive suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 29, 2004
Microsoft has killed its planned Windows 2000 Service Pack 5. Instead the company will release an Update Rollup for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 in the middle of next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 29, 2004