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
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