More of Microsoft's $6.8 billion research budget will be directed toward making its software more secure and reliable, chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said at a European technology conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2004
Microsoft on Tuesday launched its SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, a technology three years in the making that has market-changing potential for business intelligence over the long term.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2004
A new mass-mailing virus known as MyDoom or Novarg spread at a record-setting pace this week, but its rate of success was fairly low against corporate servers already hardened against similar attacks.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 27, 2004
Microsoft on Thursday announced record revenues of $10.5 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2001, but the company posted lower profits than it did for the year-ago period.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 22, 2004
Meanwhile, the analyst house says, Windows NT 4 Workstation support, which was not extended in Microsoft's announcement last week, is a bigger problem for the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 22, 2004
Microsoft posted a minor update this week of its free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) for download from its Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 22, 2004
Company announces a new plug-in for importing Salesforce.com data into Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 21, 2004
The third installment of Microsoft's monthly patch roundups came and went last week with three new security bulletins but without a fix for a well-known Internet Explorer vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 20, 2004
While Microsoft’s Outlook has become a ubiquitous e-mail client within many companies, the market is still churning on the server. A number of e-mail server vendors now see opportunities to position their products as lower-cost and simpler alternatives to Exchange Server 2003.
- By Joe McKendrick
- January 20, 2004
Microsoft's interoperability efforts got a credibility boost when the latest version of Services for Unix earned a nomination for best integration solution at a major Linux show.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 20, 2004
AppSense firmly believes that enterprises could use its application performance management software. What makes it so confident? The software was originally developed for Dresdner Bank in London in the late 1990s, when AppSense served as a systems integrator and a development arm for an application service provider.
- By Doug Barney
- January 20, 2004
Microsoft is expected to pull the plug on support for Windows NT 4.0
Server by the end of 2004, and at least one vendor -- IBM Corp. -- smells blood.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 19, 2004
Microsoft is set to release version 3.5 of Services for Unix on Thursday that will mark the product's official debut as freeware.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 14, 2004
Microsoft posted a software driver to its Web site this week that executes 32-bit code on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 14, 2004
Microsoft issued three bulletins on Tuesday in its monthly collection of patches for January.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 13, 2004
Tens of thousands of organizations worldwide running Windows 98 got a breather on Monday when Microsoft formally announced it was adding 30 months to the product's extended support phase, which had been scheduled to end on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 13, 2004
Organizations looking for more than a tool to help with them cope with their patch management nightmares may be interested in a more holistic new consulting offering from Avanade.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 08, 2004
IBM will begin shipping four-way server blades in February that will allow consolidation-minded organizations to jam 28 Intel Xeon MP processors into 7U of rack space.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 08, 2004
The final chapter in this four-part series discusses a global
manufacturing firm's experiences in moving from NT 4.0 to Windows
Server 2003, an operation with 10,000 computers worldwide.
- By Linda Briggs
- January 07, 2004
With a quartet of Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers and the 64-bit edition of its Essbase OLAP, Hyperion beats Oracle’s market-leading score in a key OLAP benchmark by 39 percent.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 07, 2004