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
The availability of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 at the beginning of next month will mark the end of Microsoft's once-grand "Jupiter" project.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2004
Microsoft on Tuesday said BizTalk Server 2004 is released to manufacturing and will be generally available by April 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2004
Microsoft plans to deliver the first service pack for Office 2003 in late June.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2004
Volume servers, the industry-standard servers powered by Intel and to a lesser extent AMD processors and generally running Windows or Linux, are having a profound impact on the worldwide server marketplace, according to IDC analysts who just published their estimates for server shipments in 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2004
In another example of Microsoft's new willingness to push feature changes into service packs, the company plans to include additional functionality into its fledgling Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 in the product's first service pack.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 03, 2004
A new line of Intel Xeon MP processors for four-processor and larger systems hit the market on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 02, 2004