NEW YORK -- Microsoft kicked off its 20-city, two-month security tour this week with back-to-back summits here.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 07, 2004
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac will be released to manufacturing on April 14, Microsoft said this week. General availability is planned for the third week in May.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 07, 2004
Gartner's lead analyst on Windows server operating systems weighed in at the market research house's major IT conference last week on what form an updated release of Windows Server 2003 might take.
- By Linda Briggs
- April 06, 2004
As commercial versions of Linux climb the enterprise ladder, cost will become more of an issue with the open source operating system, according to a Gartner analyst.
- By Linda Briggs
- April 06, 2004
Microsoft will make part of its new enterprise reporting technology available as a Visual Studio control that can be embedded in applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 01, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Although Bill Gates pointedly avoided confirming it here, Microsoft is more likely than not to ship an interim client operating system before the release of Longhorn, a Gartner analyst predicted.
- By Linda Briggs
- April 01, 2004
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent an e-mail to make the case to customers and partners that the company is showing progress on security.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 31, 2004
Windows Small Business Server 2003 is being adopted at a much faster rate than the Windows 2000-based version of the product, Microsoft officials say.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 31, 2004
Move could significantly build momentum for the open-source operating system; IBM also announced that SuSE Linux will be a pre-loaded option across all of its eServer systems.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 30, 2004
In a far-ranging question-and-answer session, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates discussed his company’s R&D spending, last week’s mammoth European Commission fine, outsourcing at Microsoft -- and how he views his philanthropic spending.
- By Linda Briggs
- March 30, 2004
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