A slide presentation obtained by ENTmag.com suggests that Microsoft may not offer the Web Edition of Windows .NET Server 2003 through retail channels.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 08, 2003
Microsoft posted a downloadable Feature Pack 1 for ISA Server 2000 on Tuesday that pushes Microsoft's enterprise software firewall further up the security food chain into the role of application-layer filtering.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 07, 2003
Microsoft formally named the next version of its Exchange messaging server "Exchange Server 2003" and released a Beta 2 version for broad public testing.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 06, 2003
Two major anti-virus vendors upgraded the threat level on a variant of the Yaha virus as the mass-mailing worm spilled outside of its original range in the Middle East and Europe into the United States.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 02, 2003
Microsoft must include Sun Microsystems' Java with Windows XP and Internet Explorer, according to a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 02, 2003
Microsoft delivered its first connector for using its Outlook e-mail clients with the Lotus Domino servers sold by messaging rival IBM.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 02, 2003
Microsoft alerted users Wednesday night to a critical flaw arising from an unchecked buffer in the Windows XP Shell that could be used to run code of an attacker's choice. The flaw occurs when opening or even hovering over malicious audio files.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2002
Mainstream support for Windows NT 4.0 Server ends on Dec. 31, a deadline Microsoft formally set a year ago and reaffirmed with a new support retirement policy in October. Support for several other more minor server products will also expire at the end of this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2002
Analyst firm Aberdeen Group predicts an increase in worldwide IT spending in 2003 and beyond but researchers say they don't expect to see the kind of IT spending growth of the late '90s to happen again.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2002
Storage software giant Veritas is buying application performance management vendor Precise in a $537 million deal.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2002
IBM is shipping 16-processor Xeon MP-based servers in volume. The servers, which are five months behind schedule, broaden the options for customers who are looking to run powerful Windows-based systems with more than eight processors for server consolidation or large database projects.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2002
You'd think the existence of ASP.NET on a Web site would make it a safe bet that it's a Windows server, right? Not so fast. Internet researchers at U.K.-based consultancy Netcraft find that about 1 percent of ASP.NET Internet sites on the Web are running Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2002
Microsoft issued a roadmap on its Web site this week of the software and technologies it plans to deliver for the enterprise in 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2002
Unisys this week touted a new set of benchmarks that it says demonstrates the scalability and the price/performance of its flagship ES7000 Intel servers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2002
Microsoft this week announced the newest edition to its Microsoft Systems Architecture configurations, Microsoft Systems Architecture for the Enterprise Data Center.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2002
IBM last week agreed to acquire development tools vendor Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion. The deal is the second largest software acquisition in Big Blue's history and brings up interesting issues surrounding Rational's support for .NET.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 11, 2002
Microsoft issued new security bulletins warning users of moderate threats due to vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2002
Intel took a step this week to make it easier for developers to use the Hyper Threading technology in its newest processors. The chipmaker released new compilers for translating C++ and Fortran code into the machine language understood by the processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
In rolling out Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 on Thursday, Microsoft also offered the bulk of its user base a first look at a new tool for the prickly problems of Group Policy management.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
Microsoft officially posted Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 to the Web for download on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002