Technology similar to the gizmos featured in the high-tech thriller "Enemy of the State" entered the everyday business application world this week when Microsoft released a new server for building location-based services into applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 23, 2004
More than half of enterprise software vendors are likely to change their licensing models in the next year, according to a new study by IT researchers at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 23, 2004
Microsoft made its first overt move into the dedicated storage server space in September with the release of Windows Storage Server 2003. In a field of Windows Server operating system versions that seems to be growing by the month, the company is still struggling to define what distinguishes its Storage Server SKU from all the other versions of Windows Server 2003. The company recently embarked on an education campaign to clarify its intentions for the product.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2004
Dell on Monday began shipping a rack-optimized Network Attached Storage (NAS) server that runs Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2004
While Microsoft isn't saying how much it will charge for Virtual Server 2005, the company is promising the price will be low.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2004
Microsoft is forging ahead with plans to offer its two flagship management products, Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager, in a package called Microsoft System Center later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2004
A few details dribbled out this week at the Microsoft Management Summit about two feature packs Microsoft will ship for Systems Management Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2004
Software Update Services 2.0, Microsoft's next release of a patch management technology for small and medium organizations, is getting a major overhaul and a new name -- Windows Update Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 17, 2004
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer cancelled a planned keynote this week at the Microsoft Management Summit to go to Europe and negotiate with the European Commission as the antitrust case there reaches a critical stage.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 17, 2004
LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft demonstrated features of the new Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, which entered its final beta stage on Tuesday, and unveiled a new version called MOM 2005 Express that is aimed at smaller and medium-sized businesses.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 16, 2004
If you think that the days of the mainframe are numbered, you’ve got another thing coming. With sales of mainframes and mainframe-related software and services picking up last year, and with strong growth in the early months of 2004, it appears that reports of Big Iron’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 16, 2004
Four of the largest e-mail and Internet Service Provider companies in the United States this week launched the first major industry lawsuits under the new federal anti-spam law.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2004
The official line out of Microsoft is that delays in the SQL Server roadmap will not affect delivery of the "Longhorn" version of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2004
Microsoft officials said on Wednesday that the next version of SQL Server, code-named "Yukon," and the next version of Visual Studio, code-named "Whidbey," will be delayed until the first half of 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 10, 2004
It's a repackaged CRM Midmarket Edition. The product's lower price should appeal to small and mid-sized companies. Siebel is working with third parties to provide fixed-price integration and implementation services.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 10, 2004
Users who use Outlook Today as default folder at risk for privilege elevation attack.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 10, 2004
Microsoft released its monthly security patches for March on Tuesday. Three patches were released -- one for Windows 2000 Server, one for Office XP and one for MSN Messenger. None of the patches is critical.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 09, 2004
Microsoft and EMC launched a 10-city tour this week to promote a joint solution for consolidating and protecting data in branch offices and other remote sites.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2004
Microsoft will release an update to Windows Server 2003 to bundle in some of the add-on components the company has put out since shipping Windows Server 2003 last April, a company official said Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2004
The incessant flood of variants of three major new worms -- Bagle, NetSky and MyDoom -- may be more than a coincidence.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2004