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
Microsoft will combine Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager into a unified product called Microsoft System Center over the next few years, the company revealed in a management roadmap keynote Tuesday in Las Vegas.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2003
Microsoft will not release a new version of Application Center, the server product introduced two years ago for deploying and managing high-availability Web applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2003
AMD, continuing its quest to move the industry away from the clockspeed references in processor names that it argues are nearly meaningless, on Thursday announced a new model number strategy for its Opteron line of processors that launches April 22.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 13, 2003
A new survey of CIOs by analysts at Aberdeen Group finds that the IT executives are downgrading the amount that they expect to increase their technology budgets.
In the current survey, conducted in January, enterprises executives expected to increase technology budgets by 2.7 percent over the next six to 12 months. A similar Aberdeen survey in September had CIOs projecting their overall budgets growing 3.7 percent over the next six to 12 months.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 12, 2003
Enterprise IT needs to get tough on remote users to make sure broadband connections are secure, a new bulletin from the CERT/CC shows. The security researchers at CERT are finding an increase in reports of Windows 2000 and Windows XP system compromises due to poorly protected file shares. Attackers are exploiting weak or missing passwords on Administrator accounts on Server Message Block (SMB) file shares.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 12, 2003
Microsoft will deliver Internet SCSI (iSCSI) support in June as an add-in for Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. The driver will be free and available as a download, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 12, 2003
Microsoft claims to have distributed 45,000 Beta 2 copies of Exchange Server 2003, the incremental release of Exchange 2000 Server that is expected to ship at about the same time as Microsoft Office 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2003
Microsoft is set to unveil its plans for the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager next week. The venue will be the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2003
Microsoft released the Beta 2 version of Microsoft Office 2003 to customers and partners on Sunday in preparation for a mid-year release. About 500,000 copies are being distributed.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2003
Sonic Mobility, which makes software for remotely administering Windows servers from PDAs, extended its solution this week to support remote access to the NetIQ AppManager Suite.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 06, 2003
Microsoft put its server technology for real-time communications, such as instant messaging, out for a broad public beta test on Thursday.
Code-named Greenwich, the technology was originally planned to be a part of Windows Server 2003. Last year, Microsoft pulled the technology out of the base server and announced that it would ship later.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 06, 2003