NetIQ took a step toward integrating its security products so they can be used more seamlessly to address a broader swath of security issues facing the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 18, 2004
Enterprise application giant SAP is working to hook its wares more tightly with Microsoft's ubiquitous Office desktop productivity software and Microsoft's widely used Visual Studio development platform.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 13, 2004
While Jim Allchin said this month that the Windows Longhorn client and server projects are back in synch from a development perspective, another senior Microsoft officials clarified this week that the server version won't be ready as soon as the client version.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 13, 2004
After burdening IT with patches for 20 vulnerabilities in its April Patch Tuesday, Microsoft offered a fix for just one vulnerability in this month's patch event.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 12, 2004
Thanks to Mono 1.0, .NET is for Linux, Unix and even MacOS.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 11, 2004
Just as IT brushes itself off from the Sasser worm, it's that time again. Today is Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, that day once a month when Microsoft puts out all the security patches it's been working on.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 11, 2004
Beta testing is underway for the first service pack for Systems Management Server 2003, Microsoft's enterprise product for change and configuration management.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 11, 2004
Microsoft this week opened a beta program for the second-generation version of its instant messaging server.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 06, 2004
IBM is entering the open beta stage for "Stinger," the code-name for the next-generation release of DB2, which is slated for availability later this year. The next release of DB2 will make it easier for DBAs to deploy, configure, maintain and optimize DB2 databases.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 06, 2004
The 64-bit extensions to x86 instructions pioneered by AMD and adopted by Intel are leading to a "wonderful transition" to 64-bit computing, according to Bill Gates.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2004
Great Scott, what's going on? Sun and Microsoft recently agreed to bury the hatchet and concentrate on integration, not instigation. Is this good news for customers? Yes and no.
Yes because it's high time someone began making an effort to make systems more interoperable.
No because when big vendors make nicey-nicey with each other, especially when lawyers are involved, it's often time to run the other way.
- By Joe McKendrick
- May 05, 2004
Microsoft is throwing big money at Windows Update, the company's infrastructure and technologies for distributing patches to its ubiquitous Windows software.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 05, 2004
Microsoft may be setting its sights on business users with very little, if any, development expertise.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 05, 2004
Microsoft provided a finish line for its lengthy process of putting out a 64-bit edition of Windows XP that will support the AMD 64-bit processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 04, 2004
Microsoft is now developing the Windows "Longhorn" server and Windows "Longhorn" client in lockstep, a change from the staggered development the company was previously pursuing for its next generation version of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 04, 2004
Four variants of Sasser, the first major worm to exploit flaws patched by Microsoft's huge security bug fixing patch last month, were wreaking havoc on computer networks.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 04, 2004
Microsoft readied another preview copy of "Longhorn," code-name for the next generation version of Windows, for attendees of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 04, 2004
Windows XP shipments topped 210 million between the October 2001 launch and March of this year, Microsoft said.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 04, 2004
Microsoft on Wednesday night acknowledged that its massive April 13 security patch was causing serious problems in some Windows 2000 systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2004
The release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update of the two-and-a-half-year-old operating system, is being pushed back into the second half of the year.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2004