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
Part three of this four-part series describes a Canadian firm's
on-going, cautious efforts to evaluate the new platform for its
truly mission-critical 24x7 environment.
- By Linda Briggs
- December 18, 2003
Microsoft plans to release a toolset for compliance with the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act in March, the company announced this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2003
Microsoft laid out a roadmap on Wednesday for retiring Windows 2000 Server editions over the next few years. The process starts in April for Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed plans to hold pricing relatively steady for the next release of its integration-focused BizTalk Server 2004, which is scheduled to ship early next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2003
Part Two of this four-part series profiles an organization with
30 television stations across the country and 2,000-plus employees.
- By Linda Briggs
- December 17, 2003
Microsoft on Tuesday released an open beta of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2004, the company's second-generation application management tool which is scheduled for release next summer.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2003
The earliest that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will ship is at the end of the first half of 2004, according to Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Microsoft's security business unit.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 16, 2003