Microsoft's net income rose 11 percent on strong sales in its server and tools business unit for the quarter ended Sept. 30, the company said Thursday. Company revenues grew 12 percent overall, while the server and tools business grew 19 percent.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 21, 2004
In a wide-ranging discussion with Gartner analysts, Microsoft's CEO
discussed the Windows "Longhorn" wave and WinFS, competition with Linux, 64-bit prospects and software piracy.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 21, 2004
It's good to step back and get a sense of the landscape every once in a
while. Security giant Symantec Corp. offered an opportunity to do that
recently in its semi-annual document called the "Internet Security
Threat Report."
- By Scott Bekker
- October 21, 2004
It was an ambitious, self-imposed goal -- distribute 100 million copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2 within two months of the critical security update's release. On Wednesday, Microsoft declared success.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 20, 2004
"Istanbul" is Microsoft's client component for moving its Live Communications Server-based presence platform forward with telephony.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 20, 2004
The blizzard of Microsoft security patches last Tuesday serves as a harsh reminder to organizations still running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation that you're on your own.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 20, 2004
During a series of recent media briefings, Microsoft began to give out nitty gritty details about specific timetables for the betas, SDKs and release candidates that will lead to the next round of Windows server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 19, 2004
With the expected arrival of dual-core processors from both Intel and AMD next year, Microsoft faced a licensing dilemma -- do right by customers by charging for only the physical processors or do right by investors by wringing maximum profit from each core on the processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 19, 2004
Microsoft released a technical preview of its upcoming SQL Server 2005 database on Friday at the same time as the company adjusted its timetable for delivering the next major beta, and possibly, the long-delayed product itself.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2004
New integrated approach will cause quarantining technology to be delayed from the Windows Server 2003 "R2" release to the Windows "Longhorn" Server release.
- By Keith Ward
- October 18, 2004
In a Q&A session this month, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect talked briefly about the next version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," and seemed to be describing the WinFS technologies that are supposed to have been cut.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 13, 2004
For much of its existence Boise, Idaho-based ProClarity has built its analytic technology stack almost entirely on top of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 database. That changed late last month when ProClarity announced a new version 6.0 release of its ProClarity Analytics platform.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 13, 2004
Quest Software this week released a new version of its usage reporting and analysis tool for Microsoft Exchange.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 13, 2004
In one of its biggest monthly "Patch Tuesday" events yet, Microsoft posted 10 new security bulletins, seven of them for critical flaws that could allow attackers to remotely take control of a computer.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 12, 2004
Some notable milestones in the Longhorn delivery schedule and Microsoft's dates for future deliverables.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 11, 2004
Windows Longhorn is becoming less a code-name for an operating system than it is a code-name for a family of major technology projects that are becoming less and less coupled to the next version of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 11, 2004
A collection of links to resources about Microsoft's Windows "Longhorn" project.
Windows "Longhorn" took a serious blow to its coolness quotient a month ago when it got a hard ship date and a serious loss of exclusive features. Suddenly, many of the big ideas in this operating system are either separated from the OS or will be available in older versions of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 11, 2004
The roles of a handful of top executives in shaping the Windows "Longhorn" project so far have come to light.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 11, 2004
The SANS Institute on Friday unveiled its fifth annual list of the most commonly exploited vulnerable services in Windows, Unix and Linux systems. For Windows-based systems, Web servers and services topped the list as the biggest vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 08, 2004