A low-key re-release of a 64-bit desktop version of Windows was quietly Released to Manufacturing on Friday along with the higher profile Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 01, 2003
Web researchers at Netcraft Ltd. say Windows 2000 crossed the threshold of 1 million IP addresses in March. Together with Windows NT 4.0 and Windows Server 2003, there are slightly over 1.5 million IP addresses running Microsoft operating systems, according to Netcraft.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 01, 2003
Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 to manufacturing, clearing the way for OEMs to begin building systems with the new operating system and for Microsoft to begin boxing and distributing the OS for the April 24 launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 28, 2003
HP this month began shipping an ultra-dense ProLiant server that packs four Intel Xeon processors into 2U of rack space.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 27, 2003
Stratus Technologies this month unveiled its next generation of entry-level fault-tolerant servers for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 27, 2003
Dell this week formally announced the first four models in its long-expected entry into the printer market, where the company will use its direct sales approach to aggressively cut prices in targeting printer industry leader HP.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 26, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday warned users of an "important" new vulnerability involving the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol in Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP that can allow a denial-of-service attack.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 26, 2003
CERT on Wednesday moved to help users make sense of a flurry of recent vulnerability notices involving Lotus Notes and Domino on several platforms, including Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 26, 2003
Next week, VMWare will begin shipping the 4.0 version of its desktop virtualization software, VMWare Workstation.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2003
Kevin Johnson took over the job of group vice president for Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services group.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2003
Unisys this week introduced updated software for self-management and self-healing of its massive ES7000 Windows servers, and also showed off add-on modules for easing server consolidation and resource management.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 25, 2003
Microsoft late Wednesday alerted customers to a critical flaw affecting all versions of Windows since Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 20, 2003
Microsoft's enterprise firewall contains a security hole that attackers could use to cause denial-of-service conditions in internal Domain Name Service servers. The security flaw with Internet Security & Acceleration Server rates as a "moderate" security risk, Microsoft security officials determined.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 20, 2003
Microsoft formally launched the .NET Compact Framework for supporting and creating mobile applications on Wednesday at the Microsoft Mobility Developers Conference. Redmond has been talking about the framework for a year, with beta releases in April and September and an official Release to Manufacturing in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 20, 2003
Verizon Wireless and Sprint launched Microsoft PocketPC Phone Edition offerings this week that open the data-intensive phone devices to a much broader market in the United States.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 20, 2003
Hewlett-Packard this week introduced an entry-level server starting at $550 for cost-sensitive, small- to medium-sized businesses. The server is part of the tc2100 series, which costs less than HP's flagship line of ProLiant industry-standard servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 19, 2003
Microsoft is waking and smelling the coffee -- and it isn’t Java. It's Linux.
- By Joe McKendrick
- March 19, 2003
While the Microsoft Management Summit this week was long on promises, with the far-off Microsoft System Center product taking center stage, Microsoft did announce one deliverable designed to make Windows server deployment and administration easier at very large enterprises.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 19, 2003
A critical, newly discovered flaw in Internet Information Services 5.0 could open Windows 2000-based Web servers, and other Windows 2000 systems that were installed with default settings, to a code execution vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2003
Microsoft plans to release the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager in 2004 with ease of use, rapid deployment and better management packs being the top priorities for Microsoft's first full rewrite of the technology it bought from NetIQ.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2003