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
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