While Microsoft isn't saying how much it will charge for Virtual Server 2005, the company is promising the price will be low.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2004
Microsoft is forging ahead with plans to offer its two flagship management products, Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager, in a package called Microsoft System Center later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2004
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