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
Microsoft released a critical new patch on Wednesday that fixed three new vulnerabilities in the DCOM Remote Procedure Call (RPC) on almost all supported versions of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday launched Windows Storage Server 2003, a version of Windows for Network Attached Storage appliances and intended for dedicated file serving.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2003
Hardware and software vendors jumped on the Microsoft's launch of Windows Storage Server 2003 Wednesday with a host of hardware devices shipping with the new OS and software releases that run on the Network Attached Storage solutions.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2003
AMD fleshed outs its line of Opteron processors on Tuesday, introducing a new model for entry-level systems and a new model for four- to eight-way systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2003
Stratus Technologies this week refreshed the mid-level and high-end versions of its fault-tolerant Windows-based servers. The company also introduced support for Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2003
Oracle launched its Oracle 10G database this week and demonstrated slightly better benchmark scalability than SQL Server on a similar Windows-based configuration.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2003
As Microsoft prepares to formally launch the next version of Office, the company's security team issued four bulletins for security flaws -- one critical -- in existing Microsoft Office programs. Also Wednesday, Microsoft released a patch for a low-priority flaw in Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 03, 2003
Windows server sales boomed, Linux sales grew even more quickly, and the Unix bleeding slowed.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 03, 2003
Advocates say Oracle's bid is an attempt to acquire the customer base or destroy the company, but were excerpts taken out of context?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 02, 2003
Two days after issuing an initial estimate of the Sobig worm damages, a U.K-based digital security firm has revised the damage estimate upward by nearly $1.5 billion and broken out the amount of damage resulting from the Sobig.F variant.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2003
SQL Server 2000 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 64-bit had a great run, but it looks like Microsoft's challenge to Unix and Oracle on scalability is over for now.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2003
Microsoft group vice president of platforms Jim Allchin says Microsoft will "do right by our customers" in the event that the Longhorn release slips into late 2005 or beyond.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2003
Intel Corp. this week dropped prices by between 6 percent and 14 percent on most of its desktop Celeron processors, the economy chips for desktop systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 27, 2003