MediaLive International, which last year took over what was once the IT industry's largest and most important show, cancelled Comdex 2004 on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 23, 2004
Microsoft on Tuesday refreshed its six-month-old reporting platform for SQL Server 2000 with a service pack that adds some minor functionality.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 22, 2004
Microsoft shipped version 8.0 of Great Plains, its packaged financial management software for mid-market companies across all business sectors.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 22, 2004
Microsoft released another trial balloon in the last week over what it should do with its anti-virus technology. The company is dragging its feet on a decision because it really has no good options here.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2004
Based on the restored demand for enterprise servers that began late last year, researchers at IDC are predicting strong growth for server systems through 2008, especially for Linux- and Windows-based boxes.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2004
Veritas Software Corp. this week released an incremental update to its flagship, heterogeneous backup product that includes several key enhancements for Windows-based environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2004
A week after the controversial disclosure that Microsoft had been in merger talks with ERP giant SAP, Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the roadmap for its own fledgling bundle of four ERP products.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 16, 2004
Microsoft is leaning toward offering a paid anti-virus subscription service.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 16, 2004
AMD completed design of its AMD64 dual-core processor and plans to deliver the chips to the x86 server market in the middle of next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 16, 2004
Microsoft posted the second release candidate for Windows XP Service Pack 2, but the software giant is refusing to say when it hopes to ship the final version of the service pack, which amounts to a minor new release of the Windows client.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2004
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, which hit the release candidate stage on Monday, will come in two editions when it ships.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2004
Users running fully patched versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a new exploit in the wild that has been used to load adware onto systems whose owners did nothing more than click on a malicious Web address, according to security researchers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 10, 2004
Marathon Technologies is back -- out of bankruptcy and up to speed with support for Windows Server 2003 in its fault-tolerant software systems that use industry-standard hardware.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 10, 2004
Microsoft this week formally delivered the appeal the company promised in March when the European Commission ruled against Microsoft in its five-year-old antitrust investigation.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2004
Dell is taking a second crack at the four-way Itanium space.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2004
Big Blue expects a booming desktop replacement cycle, this year and next
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 09, 2004
A problem with Crystal Reports is one of two moderate vulnerabilities that Microsoft addressed in its monthly "Patch Tuesday" release.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 08, 2004
A pair of security researchers has tried to assess the worst case scenario for a worm attack on the United States targeting commonly used services in the ubiquitous Windows platform. The figure they came up with is $50 billion.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 07, 2004
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that the company initiated merger talks late last year with enterprise software vendor SAP AG.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 07, 2004
Microsoft late Tuesday posted its updated list of product support deadlines in the wake of the announcement of a new 10-year product support lifecycle. The list confirms that Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange Server 5.5 aren't grandfathered into the new program.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 02, 2004