Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer effectively closed the door on any Microsoft involvement in open-source initiatives, saying that the commercial approach to software development and sales provides the best security and value to enterprise customers.
- By Joe McKendrick
- October 22, 2003
NEW YORK -- Microsoft launched its 2003 version of Microsoft Office in a worldwide series of events that emphasized the advantages of deploying the desktop productivity applications with related back-end servers and services for collaboration and business process integration.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2003
Microsoft is making the complete version of its new notetaking application, OneNote 2003, available as a free, 60-day evaluation edition in an effort to promote one of the newest members of the Office program family.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday released Systems Management Server 2003 to manufacturing, clearing the way for a formal launch of the product at an IT show in Europe next month. Microsoft also released pricing and made a 120-day evaluation edition available.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2003
Recently, Microsoft announced the first public beta of its long-awaited Reporting Services software. Although Reporting Services won’t be available until later this year, BI professionals anxious to take the new product for a test drive can now do so. What can they expect to find? One report administrator, who’s participated in Microsoft’s private beta, says that he “can’t wait to replace everything [he has] with it.”
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 21, 2003
Many IT systems are underutilized, and do not have the flexibility to keep up with rapid changes in the businesses they support. That's the conclusion of Gartner analysts who kicked off this week's Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2003 conference in Orlando, Florida.
- By Joe McKendrick
- October 20, 2003
Microsoft has a new code-named project for security called "Springboard" that's designed to harden products already on the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2003
The next major business intelligence freebie in Microsoft's SQL Server database took a step closer to reality recently when Microsoft posted the Beta 2 of its Reporting Services for SQL Server 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2003
Microsoft keeps delivering or promising new SKUs of Windows Server 2003. After the original six versions the company launched on April 24, Microsoft has delivered or announced an additional seven splits of the server operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2003
Three new 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 entered the beta testing stage on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 15, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday issued the first of its new monthly security bulletins. The first installment is a blockbuster, fixing seven vulnerabilities, five of them critical. Five vulnerabilities involve Windows and two vulnerabilities affect Exchange.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 15, 2003
Responding to pressure from users to release a packaged update for Windows XP as the delivery date for Service Pack 2 has fallen to mid-2004, Microsoft on Wednesday posted a rollup package of updates for the client operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 15, 2003
Windows now dominates the server market as well as the client market, even with the growth of Linux, according to new market research from IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 14, 2003
Microsoft will formally launch its long-awaited Systems Management Server 2003 next month at an IT event in Europe.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 14, 2003
In a major speech last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave the
company's response to the current security furor instigated by
the Blaster and Sobig.F outbreaks of August and September.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 14, 2003
Microsoft is making several changes to Content Management Server that should widen the audience for the enterprise server product, including a far less expensive version and fresh integration with the new Windows SharePoint Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 09, 2003
NEW ORLEANS -- Stung by relentless viruses and hacker attacks, and a patch cycle that is spinning completely out of control, Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to mitigate, but unfortunately not eliminate, the crisis.
- By Doug Barney
- October 09, 2003
The SANS Institute along with government agencies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada on Wednesday released a list of the Top 20 computer security vulnerabilities. IIS is the top red flag for Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 08, 2003
Intel shipped new Xeon processors for dual-processor servers and workstations.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2003
Microsoft will offer technical support for its Java Virtual Machine until October 2004 under a legal agreement announced Tuesday with Sun Microsystems.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 07, 2003