Microsoft this week reached legal and financial settlements with two of its most vocal antitrust critics -- Novell and the Computer & Communications Industry Association.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 10, 2004
Intel is shipping six new processors aimed at filling out its burgeoning Itanium 2 server CPU lineup. But, more than that, Intel hopes that the new CPUs will provide it with traction in server markets such as high-performance computing and large-scale databases that until only recently were strictly the domain of RISC processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 09, 2004
IBM to release upgraded Enterprise X chipset next year to bring support for Xeon processors with EM64T.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 08, 2004
Microsoft changed the name of its specialized edition of Windows Server 2003 for massively parallel computing from the HPC Edition to the Compute Cluster Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 08, 2004
Veritas will ship this month version 4.0 of its OpForce Enterprise Edition distributed server provisioning software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 04, 2004
Agency claims nine-year deal on up to 900,000 desktops will save British taxpayers more than 330 million pounds. Deal's overall worth reported at about 500 million pounds.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 04, 2004
Unisys this month plans to ship three new Intel Itanium-based servers, including one that enables IT shops to run both 32-bit and 64-bit processors in the same rack-mounted unit, giving customers a more cost-effective migration path for expanding into 64-bit applications.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 04, 2004
Microsoft officials said on Thursday that the controversial early notification program on security bulletins that has been available to certain customers for a year will be open to everyone starting immediately. The company posted its first advance notification on Thursday. Expect one bulletin next Tuesday addressing an important flaw in ISA Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 04, 2004
NEC Solutions has teamed up to offer its fault-tolerant servers with Softricity’s SoftGrid application management system.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 04, 2004
Microsoft on Wednesday made available a hotfix for a problem on Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems where Internet Explorer 6.0 crashes on certain types of Web pages.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 03, 2004
A pair of reports this week show minor erosion of Microsoft's share in two separate desktop markets where the company dominates.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 02, 2004
A version of the Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta application specifically developed for the life sciences industry is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 02, 2004
Microsoft is holding a series of IT administrator-focused Webcasts this week on the transition to 64-bit Windows computing.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 02, 2004
Running multiple domain controllers as virtual machines on a single physical server may not sound like a great production strategy, but Microsoft contends that it's doable in the right circumstances.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 28, 2004
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the company's anti-Linux campaign to its IT executive e-mail list on Wednesday afternoon, with a 2,600-word message that restated Microsoft's well-worn case against open source software.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 28, 2004
VMware plans to expand its virtual SMP technology from the current two-processor
support to four-processor support by the second half of 2005. By that
time the decision should be substantially more relevant as dual-core
processors come onto the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2004
Sybari Software this week released a new version of Sybari Advanced Spam Defense that moves the junk mail folder off the Exchange Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2004
- By Scott Bekker
- October 27, 2004
Microsoft will release a free toolkit later this week to help organizations migrate to Virtual Server 2005, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 26, 2004
Live Communications Server 2005, Microsoft's second-generation real-time communications server, is released to manufacturing and will be generally available on Dec. 1, the company said Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 26, 2004