A day after Microsoft and NEC Corp. reached the top of the Transaction Processing Performance Council's OLTP benchmark raw performance list, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard smashed that record.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 24, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft formally launched Windows Server 2003 on Thursday, after more than a year of delays and several changes in name and focus. During a launch keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer argued that the timing was right for a Microsoft server operating release that improves IT manageability and provides data-center scalability.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 24, 2003
In advance of the formal launch of Windows Server 2003 on Thursday, Microsoft and NEC posted record-setting results on the most important independent scalability benchmark in the industry on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 23, 2003
Microsoft claims more than 1 million customers downloaded the Windows Server 2003 preview code through the Corporate Preview Program prior to the server's launch, which is scheduled for Thursday in San Francisco.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 23, 2003
It's been clear from Microsoft's naming announcements of the last few months that the .NET Enterprise Server products would have a new name shortly. The official word came down this week that the new name is Windows Server System.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 17, 2003
At least one area of the IT industry is experiencing double digit growth, according to market research firm IDC -- security appliances.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2003
Microsoft will put a "third gate" of spam protection into Exchange Server 2003, which is due for release in the middle of this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2003
A newly patched vulnerability in the Windows kernel opens enterprise systems to a significant threat of attacks from employees and others able to log on at a system keyboard.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2003
Systems Management Server 2003 hit the beta 2 phase, moving the management server further along the track for its planned September release.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 15, 2003
The third quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2003 brought the software giant flat profits on increased revenues compared to the year-ago quarter, the company reported late Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 15, 2003
Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server and Proxy Server 2.0 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to a flaw in the way services in the two products handle a response from remote clients.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2003
Microsoft this week posted a free tool to help administrators manage Group Policy.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2003
Three years after rolling out massive, mainframe-inspired servers for Windows and Intel, Unisys is packing the big-server technology into smaller, denser pieces that the company hopes will be more digestible for enterprise buyers.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2003
Winternals launched an administrative tool for recovering failed servers and desktops that is modeled after Microsoft's Windows XP System Restore technology but takes the capability further.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2003
Microsoft's "Greenwich" project for real-time communications raised questions about whether the technologies would end up as a new server product the company would charge for or as a free add-on for Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday reinforced its commitment to AMD's Opteron processors with an announcement that it will put out beta versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP that run the AMD 64-bit processor in mid-2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2003
SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft's presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the kind of market dominance it has achieved in other markets, according to preliminary estimates for 2002 from the U.K.-based OLAP Report.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2003
A critical flaw in the controversial Microsoft VM could allow an attacker to execute code on a victim's Windows system, Microsoft warned in a bulletin Wednesday night. The problem is fixed in a new version of the Microsoft VM.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2003
In an otherwise light week for infrastructure security news, Microsoft
issued a reminder to customers to beware of bogus security bulletins
that look like they come from Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 08, 2003
Microsoft's fledgling SharePoint Portal Server is being renamed to emphasize its close integration with the Microsoft Office suite, the company revealed this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 08, 2003