It was the dream of many a Windows NT 4.0 Web site administrator applying the daily or twice-daily reboot. A Windows 2000 system that would just stay up. This month in its monthly report on Web sites around the world, Netcraft found a Windows 2000 site that hasn't needed a reboot in more than two years.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 21, 2003
Microsoft updated its enterprise database, SQL Server 2000, this week with a service pack that includes bug fixes and some new and enhanced functionality.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 21, 2003
U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to include a Java Runtime Environment provided by Sun Microsystems in new copies of Windows XP and Internet Explorer within 120 days.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 21, 2003
Microsoft put up another quarter of record revenues, in part based on strong growth in its server segment. At the same time, Microsoft announced its first stock dividend, a step investors have pushed for in recent years as the days of the stock's meteoric growth have ended.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 16, 2003
The final numbers aren’t in, but analysts and security firms are anxious to put a disappointing 2002 behind them even as they look forward to what they say will be a more successful 2003. Over the coming year, Industry watchers expect that IT security spending will increase as firms implement postponed projects and allocate new funding for deferred purchases of security products and services.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 16, 2003
Microsoft is offering limited rights to review source code to a third of the world's governments in what is widely viewed as an attempt to blunt open source momentum among security conscious national agencies. Early participants in the program announced this week are NATO and a Russian agency.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 15, 2003
Long-time Microsoft security-watcher Russ Cooper says that the software giant must do more to enhance the security of its products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 15, 2003
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.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 14, 2003
Microsoft will launch Windows Server 2003 and the next version of Visual Studio .NET on April 24 in San Francisco.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 10, 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.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 09, 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.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 09, 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.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 09, 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.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 08, 2003
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