Microsoft has issued a formal fix for a problem in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that resulted in error messages for programs that attempt to use loopback addresses other than 127.0.0.1.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 22, 2004
It’s never taken Microsoft longer than three years (give or take a few months) to deliver a new version of its business-class operating system. And when Redmond ships its Longhorn operating environment sometime in 2006, more or less than three years will have elapsed since the software giant delivered Windows Server 2003.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 22, 2004
William G. Reed Jr. will retire from the Microsoft board of directors after 17 years.
The board has decided not to replace Reed, reducing the size of the Microsoft board from 10 members to nine.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 22, 2004
Microsoft expanded its controversial Government Security Program to allow governments that Microsoft trusts to review the source code of Microsoft Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2004
Microsoft this month continued the shuffle of its Visual Studio developer suite packages prior to their planned release next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2004
Security giant Symantec is buying digital security company @stake for an undisclosed sum in a deal that is expected to close in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2004
Microsoft on Monday unveiled backup and recovery software for Windows file servers that will provide continuous backup of incremental changes to files and rapid recovery from disk-based storage.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2004
Microsoft and Sendo reached a settlement in the lawsuit and countersuit that arose after the companies' mobile phone partnership fell apart in late 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2004
The Microsoft Board of Directors on Wednesday declared a regular quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share that will be payable Dec. 2.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2004
Microsoft posted the first service pack for Systems Management Server 2003. While the company characterizes the service pack as a "relatively small update" to SMS 2003, which came out in November, SP1 is important to Microsoft's larger management roadmap.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2004
Microsoft planned to release a kit on Wednesday to help systems integrators build hooks from SAP implementations into Microsoft's Office Project Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2004
Microsoft this week released a 180-day evaluation edition of Virtual Server 2005, its first-generation product for running several virtualized server environments on one physical machine. General availability of Virtual Server 2005 is set for mid-October.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2004
A remote attacker could take complete control over computers running many versions of Microsoft software by inserting malicious code in a JPEG image that executes through an unchecked buffer when the image is processed, Microsoft acknowledged on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2004
Members of Microsoft’s network of business partner vendors see the gold running in Yukon, and are ready to spring into action with enhanced solutions.
- By Joe McKendrick
- September 13, 2004
Oracle, the one-time Cadillac dealer of database vendors, is trying to out-cheap competitors, including SMB and small enterprise kingpin Microsoft.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 13, 2004
Intel used its annual developer forum this week to lay out a server platform roadmap that has its Xeon and Itanium server processor lines running on a common platform architecture sometime after 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
Celestix Networks, one of several Microsoft partners building firewall appliances based on Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, began shipping its systems this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
Sybari Software this week updated its product line for securing e-mail through anti-virus, anti-spam and content-filtering products.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
Microsoft this month released a Service Pack 1 for its SharePoint technologies to fix bugs and add support for new search functionality, larger file sizes and additional languages.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
IBM's next version of the DB2 Universal Database, code-named "Stinger," will be generally available on Sept. 17, the company said Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004