Microsoft IIS slightly edges out the open-source Apache Web server in the percentage of the 1,000 highest-traffic sites that run each Web server, a new survey finds.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2004
Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 04, 2004
Oracle announced lower prices for the entry-level version of its new Oracle Database 10g, which is shipping now for Unix and Linux and will be available for Windows later.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 03, 2004
Microsoft on Monday released the much-anticipated fix for a flaw that is already being exploited in Internet Explorer that allowed the widespread "phishing" attacks through e-mail.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 02, 2004
BusinessWeek Magazine, in its Feb. 2 editions, is declaring that SCO Group with its Linux lawsuits has replaced Microsoft as the most hated company in IT.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
Following in the footsteps of the SCO Group Inc., Microsoft on Thursday put up a $250,000 bounty for the perpetrators of MyDoom.B.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
The already fast-spreading MyDoom or Novarg mass-mailing virus got a boost from an effective variant that hit about two days after the original virus was discovered.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
Quest Software Inc. will buy privately-held Aelita Software for $115 million in a deal announced by the companies late Wednesday. The deal, a combination of two of the companies with the deepest sets of Active Directory and Windows-specific migration and management technologies, is expected to close this quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
Microsoft posted a public beta of Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, the second-generation version of Microsoft's enterprise firewall and Web caching product.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2004
In its third day of activity, the MyDoom mass-mailing virus spread chaos like ripples in a pond.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2004
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