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Nearly One Year Later, Trustworthy Computing a Work in Progress

Long-time Microsoft security-watcher Russ Cooper says that the software giant must do more to enhance the security of its products.

MOM Gets a Facelift

Microsoft will unveil the roadmap for the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager in March at the Microsoft Management Summit, the company said this week. In the meantime, the company is refreshing its aging management solution with a raft of incremental pieces.

Microsoft Sets Launch Date for Windows Server 2003

Microsoft will launch Windows Server 2003 and the next version of Visual Studio .NET on April 24 in San Francisco.

Microsoft Changes OS Name to Windows Server 2003

Microsoft on Thursday formally changed the name of its next server operating system, which is due to ship in April, from Windows .NET Server 2003 to Windows Server 2003.

Spam to Cost U.S. Companies $10 Billion in 2003

An ambitious new study attempts to attach a price tag to spam. Junk e-mail will cost U.S. corporations more than $10 billion in 2003, according to the report released this week by Ferris Research, a consulting firm specializing in messaging and collaboration research.

Aelita Supports Pre-Release Versions of Windows Server 2003

Windows network tools specialist Aelita Software Corp. is taking the plunge and supporting pre-release Windows Server 2003 code for its customers, the company said Thursday.

Exchange 2000 Won't Install on Windows .NET Server 2003

Microsoft has decided not to support Exchange 2000 Server on Windows .NET Server 2003. The software giant says the overhaul required to make the two-year-old messaging server compatible with the security changes made to the underlying server operating system is more than customers would accept in a service pack. Instead, Microsoft is working to make sure that Exchange 2000, running on Windows 2000, leverages enhancements in Windows .NET Server 2003-based Active Directory infrastructures.

Microsoft Considers Channel-Only Sales for Web Edition

A slide presentation obtained by ENTmag.com suggests that Microsoft may not offer the Web Edition of Windows .NET Server 2003 through retail channels.

Microsoft Releases ISA Server Feature Pack

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.

Exchange Server 2003 Beta 2 Version Released

Microsoft formally named the next version of its Exchange messaging server "Exchange Server 2003" and released a Beta 2 version for broad public testing.

K Strain of Yaha Worm Causes Headaches

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.

Microsoft Must Include Sun Java in Windows XP, IE

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.

Microsoft Offers Outlook Connector for Domino

Microsoft delivered its first connector for using its Outlook e-mail clients with the Lotus Domino servers sold by messaging rival IBM.

Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code on Windows XP

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.

Support Deadline Looms for Windows NT

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.

Aberdeen Predicts Rise in IT Spending in 2003

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.

Veritas to Buy Precise

Storage software giant Veritas is buying application performance management vendor Precise in a $537 million deal.

IBM Shipping 16-Way in Volume

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.

Netcraft: 1% of ASP.NET Sites are Linux-Based

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.

Microsoft Offers 2003 Product Preview

Microsoft issued a roadmap on its Web site this week of the software and technologies it plans to deliver for the enterprise in 2003.