Five antivirus firms joined Microsoft's Virus Information Alliance this week, doubling the size of the group.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 25, 2004
New security features promise more secure desktops, says Microsoft chairman at RSA Conference 2004.
- By Keith Ward
- February 24, 2004
Company's new 64-bit Xeon chips complements 64-bit Itanium chips.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 24, 2004
HP formalized an arrangement with AMD to deliver servers based on AMD's Opteron 64-bit processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 24, 2004
Microsoft is revving up to release its packaged speech-enablement server product next month.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 19, 2004
Intel this week unveiled its plans to roll out 64-bit extensions for its Intel Xeon line of high-end 32-bit processors, formalizing one of Intel's long-anticipated responses to the AMD processors that offer 64-bit computing using the x86 instruction set.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 19, 2004
In a snapshot of Windows Server 2003 deployment patterns, Web researchers at Netcraft this month found that the number of hostnames found on Web servers running Windows Server 2003 just passed the number running Windows NT.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 18, 2004
Microsoft's lawyers hit back on Wednesday against people viewing the leaked Windows source code by sending letters to individuals and posting alerts within peer-to-peer networks.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 18, 2004
Microsoft Virtual Server 2004 entered the private beta testing stage on Wednesday, and Microsoft says the product will be generally available in the first half of the year.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 18, 2004
Executive Software released a refreshed version of its Undelete utility for recovering accidentally deleted files with a new feature that allows users to find their own files on the server without having to bother the IT department.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
If you're in IT in manufacturing or banking, 2004 could be a busy year for new projects -- but busy is better than the alternative, right? According to newly published data from researchers at IDC, those are the two vertical markets in the United States that will be spending the most money on IT in 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
Dell on Thursday posted company records for product shipments, revenues, operating income, net income and earnings per share in the quarter ended Jan. 30. The computermaker credited much of its quarterly strength to growth in enterprise computing products.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
SoftArtisans, which already sells a reporting product that generates and delivers reports in Word and Excel, announced plans to extend its functionality to support Microsoft's new SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
Dell this week made available three networked storage systems in the Dell/EMC product lineup that replace three previous models.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
The patch Microsoft released on Tuesday for one of the most severe flaws yet discovered in Windows has the company under renewed scrutiny about the length of time it takes to fix security problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 11, 2004
If SCO Group won its lawsuit against IBM, Red Hat, and Novell over the intellectual property rights to Linux code, it would seem cause for dancing in the streets of Redmond. However, a SCO victory doesn’t necessarily bode well for Microsoft in the long run, either.
- By Joe McKendrick
- February 11, 2004
Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly patch day, and the company marked the date with three new security bulletins, including one critical new bulletin for Windows. In all Microsoft bundled four security bulletins, including one it issued for Internet Explorer last week outside its normal patch cycle.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 10, 2004
If nothing else, Juniper Networks' $4 billion acquisition of NetScreen Technologies Monday is a strong indication that the networking market segment is poised for a recovery in 2004.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 10, 2004
The worldwide server market got a slight bounce in 2003, according to preliminary numbers for the year compiled by IDC in a report published this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 10, 2004
Although Microsoft enjoyed early success in fending off the distributed denial of service attack programmed into the fast-spreading MyDoom.B, the mass-mailing worm is inflicting an increasing amount of damage against the software giant's servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2004