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
Panda Software reported finding a tool on black hat hacker sites that can be used to create files in the JPEG image format that exploit the vulnerability in Microsoft's JPEG processing component.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 06, 2004
All the emphasis right now is on Windows XP SP2 -- and rightly so. But
there's another Windows service pack just around the bend, and if early
indications are accurate, Windows Server 2003 SP1 shows how far
Microsoft has come in terms of OS security.
- By Keith Ward
- October 06, 2004
Treo, a maker of Palm OS-based smartphones, entered a licensing agreement with Microsoft to allow the next generation of its phones to link up with the ActiveSync technology in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 05, 2004
A ship sponsored by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, SpaceShipOne, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday as the first privately built craft to fly into suborbital space two times in two weeks.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 05, 2004
Microsoft is ratcheting up its Windows XP Service Pack 2 distributions as the company seeks to meet an internal goal of getting the critical security update out to about 40 percent of its Windows XP installed base within two months of SP2's release.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 05, 2004