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
Corel Corp. this week said the next version of its flagship office suite, WordPerfect Office 11, will be available in late April. That would put Corel's worker productivity suite in users' hands a few months ahead of Microsoft's next version of Office, which is slated for release in early June.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 06, 2003
Aelita Software this week introduced an infrastructure tool to help deal with the problems facing enterprises with mature Active Directories.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2003
Next week, Shavlik Technologies will begin shipping the new version of HFNetChkPro, its product for automated, real-time management of Microsoft patches.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2003
Is spam becoming a serious problem on your Exchange servers? Messaging tools vendor GFI is offering a way for enterprises to back into anti-spamming tools without committing money up front.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2003
Microsoft will make collaboration services available for Windows Server 2003 customers sometime this year after the April ship of the base operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2003
Most editions of Windows Server 2003 will cost the same as their Windows 2000 counterparts, while the new Web Edition, which is designed to compete with Linux, will cost less than half as much as the Standard Edition, Microsoft revealed Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2003
Microsoft is claiming a groundswell of user interest in the note-taking application it is planning to add to the Microsoft Office family later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2003
.NET track changes trigger waves of response; how paper MCSEs are a benefit to IT; and more reasons to like Microsoft.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- March 01, 2003
Quick test: Have you ever used a "braindump" for exam preparation? The answer to that question may not be as simple as a "yes" or "no."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- March 01, 2003
Microsoft is adding digital rights management services to Windows Server 2003. The technology will be available as an add-on sometime after Windows Server 2003 is released in April.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 26, 2003
Microsoft issued a critical security patch for the Windows Me on Wednesday. The flaw in the Windows Me Help and Support Center could enable code execution.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 26, 2003
From the trough between client operating system releases, Microsoft this week made public a comprehensive set of free enterprise desktop evaluation and deployment tools for Windows XP Professional and Office XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 26, 2003
Microsoft is finally beating Oracle and competing with Unix in the scale-up benchmarking game.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 25, 2003
Intel cut prices on some models of Xeon and Pentium 4 processors between 6 percent and 21 percent this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 25, 2003
Huge growth in the number of application developers in China and India will lead the Asia/Pacific past North America by 2005 as the region with the most developers, according to recently published research from analyst firm IDC. Meanwhile, Microsoft's C languages still dominate among North American developers, but Java has momentum.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 25, 2003
A new variant of the LoveGate worm is posing a multi-layered threat to corporate networks this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 25, 2003