Microsoft earlier this month released a Community Technical Preview of "Avalon," the new presentation subsystem for Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 29, 2004
Wise Solutions is shipping an update of its premier lifecycle management tool, Wise Package Studio. The latest release – version 5.5 – adds automated patch impact assessment and testing tools, as well as support for new features in Microsoft’s Windows Installer 3.0.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 18, 2004
Microsoft this week delivered two long-promised feature packs for Systems Management Server 2003 -- an Operating System Deployment Feature Pack and a Device Management Feature Pack.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 18, 2004
NetIQ this month will begin shipping a “connector” tool to enable systems management and security information to be displayed on the same console.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 18, 2004
To coincide with the worldwide general availability of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 this week, Microsoft's IT department released a 32-page whitepaper detailing its internal deployment of the management software.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 18, 2004
Microsoft this week highlighted the first of its promised self-report cards on how well its 2005 generation of Windows Server System products are meeting the internally imposed Common Engineering Criteria.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 17, 2004
Maker of integration software for linking Unix and Linux systems with Microsoft infrastructures wins deepening commitment from Redmond.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 17, 2004
To mark the occasion of the debut of Sun Solaris 10 this week, Web researchers at Netcraft released the results of their latest survey of Fortune 100 Web sites. Their finding: Sun Solaris still leads with 43 sites.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 16, 2004
Microsoft on Monday formally opened a new software development campus in India that is Microsoft's largest campus after its Redmond, Wash. headquarters.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 16, 2004
Microsoft opened a new round Tuesday in its public spat with Novell with the launch of a migration program to move Novell NetWare customers to Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 16, 2004
Windows Update Services, the follow-on to Microsoft's Software Update Services free patching tool, entered the public beta testing stage on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 16, 2004
Microsoft and Dell are pairing to develop free software for Dell server customers that will integrate Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 with Dell's OpenManage 4 Change Management tool.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 16, 2004
Just days after a $536 million settlement with Microsoft over its NetWare operating system, Novell filed a federal lawsuit in Utah seeking damages from Microsoft for alleged efforts to eliminate competition in the office productivity applications market.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 15, 2004
Adds role-based “solutions” for small and mid-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 11, 2004
Thanks to a thriving market for its virtual systems software, VMware is drastically cutting the cost of one of its flagship products. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company says that with double-digit growth in sales in recent quarters, VMware can afford to lower prices.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 11, 2004
Microsoft on Thursday officially unveiled the new beta version of its MSN Search site, the company's hotly anticipated attempt to take on Google for Web searching.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 11, 2004
Paul Otellini, the president and chief operating officer at Intel who led the introduction of the Pentium processor in 1993, was elected by Intel's board of directors as the next CEO, the chip giant announced Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 11, 2004
NEC Solutions began shipping blade servers based on the new Itanium 2 processors released by Intel this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 10, 2004
Microsoft posted a patch for Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 10, 2004
With more than a dozen antitrust cases settled, or at least already accounted for in the case of the European Commission fine, Microsoft's lawyers are telling investors they're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 10, 2004