Microsoft alerted users on Wednesday to the first critical flaw found so far in Windows Server 2003. The flaw with the Remote Procedure Call protocol could allow a remote attacker to take full control of a Windows machine. It affects all supported versions of Windows except the consumer-oriented Windows Me.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2003
A survey by analyst firm Aberdeen Group found that CIOs have slightly upgraded their IT spending plans over the next six months to a year but that even the increased spending remains in the low single digits.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2003
Researchers at Netcraft say Windows Server 2003 is closing in on its 100,000th active Web site in the three months since the launch of Microsoft's latest operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2003
Network Attached Storage devices built on Windows are continuing to gain market share, according to research by IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 15, 2003
Intel released a new Xeon processor this week for front-end servers and workstations with more on-die cache. The 3.06-GHz Intel Xeon processor with 1 MB of L3 cache complements the Intel Xeon MP processors released last month for four-processor and larger servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 15, 2003
Windows Server 2003, the operating system Microsoft delayed for a complete security code review, got its first formal patch from Microsoft last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 14, 2003
Any new Microsoft operating system offers a few flashy improvements
where a quick upgrade of a server here and a server there for a
valuable feature guarantees an immediate benefit. Windows Server 2003 is
no exception.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2003
Microsoft's Next Generation Secure Computing Base is misunderstood. The controversial proposal for delivering client security through integrated hardware and software has some privacy advocates and conspiracy theorists crying foul. But several details have emerged that demonstrate that this code won't be running secretively in the background, and in fact that it looks like a promising, user-controlled defense against privacy intrusions and security violations.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2003
When it comes to long-term return on investment, many of the arguments that held sway for the Windows 2000 generation of servers apply to the Windows Server 2003 group.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2003
After making relatively little noise about metadirectory services for several years, Microsoft on Wednesday said it had released to manufacturing a new metadirectory product called Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2003
IBM traded places with HP again for the top spot in the Transaction Processing Performance Council OLTP benchmark, bumping a Windows/Itanium-based system with a Unix/RISC system.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2003
Several security vendors are issuing alerts that a hacker contest with the goal of defacing 6,000 Web sites will begin on Sunday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2003
Intel this week delivered its third-generation 64-bit processor, the "Madison" release of the Itanium 2 processor. Major server vendors including Dell, HP and IBM are poised with systems built on the higher performance chip.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2003
In partnership with Microsoft, Intel will give a customer preview of its 32-bit execution layer for 64-bit Itanium 2 processors in the beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2003
AMD this week updated its two-month-old line of Opteron 64-bit server processors to offer chips designed for four-processor servers and eight-processor servers. The delivery means AMD has several technical building blocks in place to reach higher into enterprise requirements.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2003
Microsoft has decided to release Windows Small Business Server 2003 in two editions. The decision highlights the increasing segmentation of the Windows server line, which is now up to nine editions – roughly a 50 percent increase from the Windows 2000 generation of servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 02, 2003
Delivering on one of the major free, post-release add-ons to Windows Server 2003, Microsoft this week put out the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) software initiator package.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 02, 2003
Systems Management Server 2003 entered its last major testing milestone when Microsoft put out Release Candidate 1 of the replacement for the four-year-old SMS 2.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 02, 2003
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation died with little fanfare on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2003
Three weeks after sending shockwaves through the antivirus industry with the announcement that it had bought an anti-virus vendor, Microsoft and three security partners made nice in public with an extension of Microsoft's Virus Information Alliance (VIA).
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2003