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
The Sobig worm caused an estimated $5.6 billion in damages worldwide so far, according to mi2g, a U.K.-based security firm that estimates damages from malware.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2003
Microsoft formally extended a major deadline for Exchange 5.5 Server support, removing what had been seen as a subtle threat to get users to upgrade more quickly to Exchange Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2003
In the wake of one of the most active weeks for computer worms yet, Microsoft is calling attention to a little-touted new feature of Windows Server 2003 that helps administrators ensure that remote users adhere to company security policies.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2003
A market analyst is warning customers not to expect Windows "Longhorn," the code-name for the successor to Windows XP, until 2006. That date is a year later than Microsoft's most recent statements on when customers could expect the operating system to ship.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2003
One of the most confusing aspects of Windows Server 2003 for users is sorting out the differences between free add-on services and the expensive back-end servers that build on, but also partially duplicate, the services' functionality. Analysts at Giga Information Group recently put out a clear set of guidelines laying out some differences between the free, add-on SharePoint services for Windows Server 2003 versus the $4,000 Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2003
Sonic Mobility upgraded its utility for remote management of Windows servers and networks from handheld wireless devices this week to add support for managing Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Organizational Units.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2003
Microsoft released a cumulative security patch for Internet Explorer on Wednesday that addresses four flaws, including two that Microsoft considers critical risks. The flaws affect all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer, although all the problems are reduced to a "moderate" severity rating on Windows Server 2003, which locks down Internet Explorer 6.0 by default.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2003
Microsoft posted its plans for the first bundle of security fixes and bug patches for Windows Server 2003 on a new Web page in the last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2003
Several security companies declared that the Sobig.F mass-mailing worm is the fastest spreading virus yet, surpassing the initial infection rates of Klez, the LoveBug, Kournikova and other infamous malware.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2003
Microsoft updated and reissued two security bulletins on Wednesday -- one from last year and one from last month.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2003
In what appears to be a misguided attempt to do good, someone released a worm that exploits the same DCOM RPC vulnerability that enabled the Blaster worm but that attempts to automatically download the Microsoft patch and remove the Blaster worm if it's present.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 19, 2003
General retail availability of the upgrade to the worker productivity suite is formally set for Oct. 21.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 19, 2003
Market research house IDC reports that Intel piled on a few more points of share in the second quarter to its dominant position in the worldwide x86 PC processor market.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 19, 2003