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
At the one-year anniversary of the release of Windows Small Business Server 2003, the packaged server for small business is outpacing sales of the previous version of the product, according to Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 05, 2004
Microsoft is releasing an update of its enterprise resource planning package for midsize project-, service- and distribution-oriented organizations this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 05, 2004
Microsoft and the European Commission faced off in open court on Thursday for the first time in their five-year legal battle over antitrust concerns.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 30, 2004
Fast on the heels of its announcement that Russia would be the fourth of five countries in a pilot program of a low-cost, limited-functionality version of Windows XP, Microsoft named India as the fifth country.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 30, 2004
When Microsoft delivers the Beta 3 version of SQL Server 2005, formerly code-named "Yukon," it will carry a number of feature enhancements that weren't available in the more broadly distributed Beta 2 version.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 29, 2004
After having taken nearly every opportunity so far to push back the release schedule for SQL Server 2005, formerly known as "Yukon," Microsoft is allowing its SQL Server PASS Community Summit to pass without disclosing a new delay.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 29, 2004
Microsoft extended the usefulness of its SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services by making available three Report Packs, which are collections of report templates for specific Microsoft applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 29, 2004
Microsoft this week announced that it's expanding its Windows XP Starter Edition pilot program into Russia. The company said that it hopes to get the software to PC OEMs in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States by early 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 28, 2004