Reuters and Microsoft on Tuesday announced a deal that is one of the first concrete examples of the way that firms can use the promise of instant messaging technology to enhance their business-to-consumer offerings.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 30, 2003
Microsoft on Tuesday launched the second edition of its consumer-oriented Windows XP Media Center Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 30, 2003
Depending on who’s telling the story, Microsoft Corp. recently introduced changes to its Software Update Services with or without giving users adequate prior notice.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2003
Microsoft's virtual monopoly on the desktop puts networks and computing at large, at grave risk, according to authors of a paper on security.
- By Keith Ward
- September 24, 2003
On April 24, 2002, Microsoft promised the world it would build a desktop version of Windows to run on 64-bit AMD processors. Nearly a year and a half later, Microsoft has delivered beta versions of both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition designed to exploit the speedy AMD processor.
- By Doug Barney
- September 24, 2003
The number of active Windows Server 2003 sites more than doubled since July, according to the U.K.-based Internet services and research firm Netcraft. One in 20 of those Windows Server 2003 sites migrated from Linux, Netcraft found.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2003
Columnist Joe McKendrick writes that there’s nothing remarkable about Microsoft’s heavy-handedness on licensing. Many vendors are pushy with their licensing terms. IBM has a long history of locking customers into upgrade paths. Oracle’s licensing is just as heavy-handed, and even more expensive, than Microsoft's. Even in the carefree Linux world, coercion seems to be the rule.
- By Joe McKendrick
- September 23, 2003
Teamplate released a new version of its workflow software for creating human-based business processes that leverage Microsoft infrastructure components.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 23, 2003
The recent rash of severely critical patches from Microsoft has left many IT administrators with a tough choice. Leave enterprise systems vulnerable to a dangerous Internet-based attack or rush the patch onto critical production systems without adequate testing.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 22, 2003
Even as the industry awaited the breakout of a new Blaster-style worm and the G version of Sobig, a variation on another familiar piece of malware began making the rounds on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 18, 2003
The new Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 will be installed on all Toshiba Corp. laptops and Tablet PCs -- a huge distribution boost for Microsoft's fledgling note taking application.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 18, 2003
Microsoft MapPoint 2004 entered general availability on Thursday. The updated release of Microsoft's business mapping software brings expanded demographic data, more map coverage and better support for mobile users.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 18, 2003
AMD plans to offer what it calls mid- and low-power AMD Opteron processors in 2004, the company announced this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 18, 2003
Security firms warned that hackers have published exploit code to the Web that takes advantage of the latest critical security flaw in Windows. The publication of exploit code for a vulnerability is a common precursor to the outbreak of a worm based on the flaw.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 17, 2003
NEW YORK -- During his keynote kicking off the TECHXNY show, Dell’s president and COO Kevin Rollins was coy on plans to support new initiatives in the enterprise and consumer spaces, preferring instead to emphasize the computermaker’s changing role in a maturing industry.
- By Joe McKendrick
- September 17, 2003
Microsoft pushed ahead this week with two of its real-time communications initiatives under the Office umbrella.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 17, 2003
Microsoft hit the key development milestone for the final piece in its six-month-long rollout of Windows Server 2003 on Tuesday with the release to manufacturing of Windows Small Business Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2003
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a speech Monday that the company felt "humbled" by the effects of the Blaster and Sobig.F worms.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2003
It's looking like September may be a replay of August, with nearly
identical threats ready to swamp IT. Hopefully this time, the painful
experiences of last month will help us avoid another IT catastrophe.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2003
Intel rolled out two new Itanium 2 processors this week that will help drive down the cost of 64-bit computing systems. Both processors are optimized for dual-processor servers and workstations, and one of the chips, previously code-named "Deerfield" has lower power requirements.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 11, 2003