SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft used its TechEd conference to lay out some of the features planned for the next version of Windows Server 2003, code-named "R2."
- By Scott Bekker
- May 27, 2004
Microsoft consolidated its leading share of the Windows database market, but growth of Windows as a database platform trails growth of Linux as a database platform both in raw dollars and in percentage terms, according to new Gartner research for 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 27, 2004
At Microsoft’s TechEd user conference this week, Business Objects SA unveiled an add-on for its Crystal Enterprise reporting environment which boasts tighter integration with the Office productivity suite.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 26, 2004
Microsoft is previewing Web services features that should allow developers to more easily integrate their applications with Office.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 26, 2004
Decision extends support of business software by at least three years.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 25, 2004
Microsoft is using its TechEd 2004 conference this week to trumpet releases of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from tier-one hardware vendors featuring its OEM-only Windows Storage Server 2003 with a new Exchange Server 2003 feature pack.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 25, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft will deliver products around Visual Studio next year designed to tie the roles of developers and IT administrators more closely together to make the writing, deploying and maintaining of applications a more efficient and secure process.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 24, 2004
AMD broadened its family of Opteron processors this week with the addition of three models, including one version for four-processor systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 20, 2004
Microsoft previewed two benefits coming next month to its volume licensing programs.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 20, 2004
Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2004
Security giant Symantec Corp. on Wednesday said it will buy Brightmail, a six-year-old anti-spam company, for $370 million in a cash deal expected to close by early July.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2004
Quest Software this week unveiled the inevitable aftermath of its acquisition of Aelita Software -- which products from the two companies' similar portfolios of Windows software have a future and which didn't make the cut.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2004
Despite Internet rumors that Microsoft Commerce Server was dead, and despite the crash and burn of the "Jupiter" mega-server project that would have included Commerce Server, Microsoft affirmed this week that Commerce Server has a future.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 18, 2004
More than a year after launching Windows Server 2003, Microsoft is starting a marketing campaign to single out the Internet Information Services 6.0 Web server component as a strong reason to upgrade to the server OS.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 18, 2004
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