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
Sobig enjoyed a resurgence as messages generated by a new variant of the mass-mailing worm flooded e-mail servers and user Inboxes on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 19, 2003
Stepping up to its role at the center of the Blaster worm epidemic, Microsoft on Thursday updated its main Blaster information page and peppered links to Blaster warnings and information throughout its Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2003
Microsoft will change the default firewall settings for new shipments of Windows XP in response to the wide spread of the Blaster worm, according to published reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday replaced a faulty patch for the file system flaw in Windows NT 4.0 Server that could open the operating system to denial of service attacks.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 13, 2003
Microsoft Project 2003 will be released to manufacturing on Aug. 18, the company said Wednesday in an announcement that included the pricing for the component of the Office 2003 family.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 13, 2003
The documentation of Linux security took a step forward last week. IBM helped push SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 through the Common Criteria process to earn Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification, also known as EAL2+.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 11, 2003
The first worm, which exploits the juicy RPC DCOM vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft released a patch for last month, went into the wild on Monday, crashing vulnerable computers, slowing down local subnets and sending scanning traffic on port 135 through the roof.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 11, 2003
Many Linux purists would like to see Linux eat into Microsoft's market share. Many Microsoft employees would prefer to see Windows work its way into the highest reaches of Unix deployments. Neither side is getting its way.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 11, 2003
Things get murky as you start to price out systems costs, and that's why we have analyst firms to tell us the bad news. Things are never as cheap as the vendors tell us. But what are the analysts telling us?
- By Joe McKendrick
- August 11, 2003
While no one argues with the fact that the initial price of Linux is far lower than Windows server software, the comparison is trickier when looking at long-term costs over a three to five-year period.
- By Joe McKendrick
- August 11, 2003