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
Moving to a major new operating system is always daunting, but
for these four companies, the switch to Microsoft’s latest OS
was well worth it. In part 1 of a four-part series, here's why
one small ISP moved for the speed improvements as well as
server consolidation.
- By Linda Briggs
- December 16, 2003
Storage giant EMC Corp. will buy virtualization software vendor VMWare Inc. in a $635 million deal expected to close in the first quarter of 2004, the companies said Monday. The deal widens EMC's software portfolio and shields VMWare from a head-to-head battle with Microsoft, which acquired VMWare competitor Connectix earlier this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2003
The one constant in Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance programs has been change. Generally, that change has come in the form of added goodies for the program as the company realized it was alienating customers with too many restrictions for too little value and arming critics with a hot button issue.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 11, 2003
Microsoft found no security problems serious enough to fix in December. Microsoft's new patch policy calls for all patches to be released on the second Tuesday of the month. The company announced Tuesday that it was letting the regular patching date pass without any new security bulletins and patches.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2003
Microsoft this week released an interim version of the Microsoft Customer Relationship Management product that it initially released in January and also unveiled the globalization of the product.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2003
Aim is to encourage the largest corporations to consider Itanium 2-based systems rather than RISC-based platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2003
A quick glance at MessageLabs' end of year statistics on virus activity
and an impression that's been growing since the summer gets sharper.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 09, 2003
A quarterly report on the state of the worldwide disk storage systems market shows we're about to cross another psychological threshold.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2003
In a mid-quarter update, Intel Corp. said revenues are stronger than management had originally expected for the fourth quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2003
After years of spinning its wheels, 64-bit Intel Architecture technology appears to be finally gaining some traction, according to Intel officials.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2003
Slowly but surely Microsoft is putting together a robust BI platform that will serve many companies exceedingly well.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 04, 2003