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
Microsoft posted a tool in its Download Center on Tuesday for removing several variants of the Blaster worm.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 07, 2004
Microsoft unveiled a short-term roadmap for Apple Macintosh products this week at Apple's Macworld conference in San Francisco.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 07, 2004
ScriptLogic Corp. bought privately-held Small Wonders Software, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2004
Microsoft is offering an olive branch to Windows Small Business Server 2003 customers after an embarrassing problem with Windows SharePoint Services blocked users during installation of Small Business Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2004
Microsoft launched a customer preview program for its Windows Server 2003 operating systems for AMD's Opteron processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2004
The name WinINSTALL makes one think of packaging up applications, testing for conflicts, and automating the deployment of new software. The newly announced WinINSTALL 8 does all that, but has enough extras that its developer is looking to rebrand the tool next year.
- By Doug Barney
- December 18, 2003
Eliot Spitzer, the New York State Attorney General whose office spearheaded investigations of Wall Street abuses, is working with Microsoft to punish spammers.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2003