Microsoft released six new security patches in December, but only five official
Security Bulletins. For some strange reason a patch released on the
same day as the normal monthly patches -- for Windows XP SP2 only --
didn't rate a full Security Bulletin.
- By Russ Cooper
- December 21, 2004
Developers for Microsoft Office are getting their first dedicated conference from Microsoft early next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 21, 2004
Oracle and VMware announced this week that they will work together to market solutions that combine the two companies’ products. Under the agreement, Oracle will develop, test and support its 10g database and applications products to run on VMware’s operating environment virtualization products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 16, 2004
In a Q&A on the Microsoft Web site, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates tackled a handful of questions that Microsoft says are the ones he is most commonly asked.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 16, 2004
Despite the long-standing animosity between Oracle and Microsoft, the database giant clearly demonstrated its understanding of the need to more strongly support Windows at last week’s Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2004
For its "Patch Tuesday" this month, Microsoft delivered five security bulletins for what it called "important" security flaws, including one publicly known flaw in the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2004
Vintela just shipped version 1.0 of its Vintela Management Extensions in August, but the Lindon, Utah company is on a roll – it shipped version 1.1 this week. The new release expands on version 1.0’s ability to enable Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to manage non-Windows environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2004
UltraBac Software said this week that it will in ship version 8.0 of its UltraBac backup and disaster recovery software in mid-January. Back in this release after a hiatus is UltraCopy, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company’s file copying utility for creating duplicate backups for storage offsite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 15, 2004
Microsoft's Security Response Center is working on five non-critical security bulletins for release next Tuesday, the company said late Thursday as part of its newly public Security Bulletin Advance Notification program.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2004
Microsoft this week announced that it would hold a 2005 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in September. PDC 2003, also in Los Angeles, was a major event where Microsoft publicly introduced the Windows "Longhorn" operating system and laid out the fundamental components, called pillars, of that next-generation operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2004
In a press tour on Friday, Microsoft senior vice president for Windows Server Bob Muglia updated the Windows Server release schedule for next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2004
Windows Server 2003 "R2" formally entered the private beta testing stage this week, Microsoft senior vice president for the Windows Server Division Bob Muglia said on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2004
Data center automation startup Cassatt says it will ship Version 3.0 of its Collage management product in the first quarter of 2005. The upcoming release will enable Collage to manage multiple tiered applications and will add support for Windows servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 09, 2004
AutoProf is set to release this month Policy Maker Professional 2.0, a significant update of the company’s suite of user management extensions that plug in to Microsoft’s Group Policy Object Editor in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 09, 2004
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