Microsoft consolidated its leadership position in the OLAP marketplace in 2003, but the software giant does not hold a dominant position and may slip slightly in 2004 due to continuing delays of "Yukon" and Microsoft's weak OLAP client technology, according to the OLAP Report.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 30, 2004
Security expert fired over controversial report that accused Microsoft of contributing to global insecurity now at Verdasys.
- By Keith Ward
- March 25, 2004
Anti-virus firms are warning users about a dangerous new variant of the NetSky mass-mailing worm that is flooding inboxes worldwide.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2004
Microsoft made a lot of changes to Windows XP Service Pack 2 between the beta stage in December and the Release Candidate 1 version that became widely available for download last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2004
Microsoft demonstrated software to help in-house enterprise developers use Microsoft's Watson technology to improve ongoing quality and maintenance of in-house applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2004
A sampling of commentary from participants and observers on the European Commission's ruling Wednesday on Microsoft. Includes commentary from Sun Microsystems, the Software & Information Industry Association, RealNetworks, the Cato Institute and others.
The European Commission on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay a record $613 million fine, offer a version of Windows that does not include the Windows Media Player and disclose to competitors the interfaces required to communicate with Windows. Microsoft will appeal.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 24, 2004
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