Bill Gates told a Comdex keynote crowd Sunday night that Windows .NET Server 2003 will ship in April 2003. Release Candidate 2 for the server will be available in a few weeks, Gates said. The feature differences between the four versions of Windows .NET Server 2003 are also final now, with the biggest surprises in the Datacenter Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 18, 2002
The final beta of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003 is available, and the development toolset, formerly code-named "Everett," will ship in April along with Windows .NET Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 18, 2002
Microsoft's chief ambassador Craig Mundie gave a major speech on Trustworthy Computing last week. He detailed Microsoft's moves relating to the initiative so far and outlined the future of Microsoft's security, privacy and integrity efforts moving forward. "We didn't fall off the turnip truck just a year ago and decide we should think about these things," Mundie quipped.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 18, 2002
Oracle used its conference this week in San Francisco to promote its Oracle Collaboration Suite as an alternative to established collaboration offerings from Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 14, 2002
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to customers Wednesday night describing how Microsoft has matured during the antitrust case and how lessons from the legal quagmire are making Microsoft into a more responsible industry leader moving forward.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 14, 2002
Intel on Thursday introduced a faster Pentium 4 processor that is the first desktop chip to include Hyper-Threading technology. The 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 is available immediately at a cost of $637 in 1,000-unit quantities.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 14, 2002
Citrix Systems recently previewed a real-time collaboration product -- code-named Project Pearl -- that will allow MetaFrame end users to share any published application, file or document. The product is scheduled to ship in the first half of 2003 as an add-on to the next feature release of MetaFrame XP.
- By Joe McKendrick
- November 13, 2002
Security researcher David Litchfield found a high risk problem in the form of a buffer overflow vulnerability occurring in a software component that ships with the Oracle 9i database on all platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 13, 2002
Configuresoft released the second generation of a product for one of the biggest problems facing Windows administrators right now -- security patch management.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 13, 2002
HP president Michael Capellas is leaving HP and quitting the board of directors "to pursue other career opportunities," the company announced in a statement on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 11, 2002
Microsoft gathered partners, analysts, customers and reporters in New York last week to launch the first generation of Tablet PCs built on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 11, 2002
Microsoft abandoned its plans to ship client and server versions of Windows simultaneously in the "Longhorn" release, a company spokeswoman confirmed Monday. Instead, "Longhorn" will be a client-only release, with the successor to Windows .NET Server 2003 coming later under the code-name "Blackcomb."
- By Scott Bekker
- November 11, 2002
Microsoft's board of directors moved quickly to comply with the first deadline U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly placed in the antitrust settlement agreement that she approved Nov. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 11, 2002
Microsoft this week posted two free tools to its Web site to help financial services customers and manufacturing customers build business intelligence solutions on SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 07, 2002
IBM Corp. published an OLTP benchmark this week that demonstrates again the surging capabilities of Windows Datacenter Server on Xeon MP chips in eight-processor systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 07, 2002
Some of Microsoft's more aggressive public arguments against Linux and Open Source Software backfired with key customer groups, according to an internal Microsoft memo leaked to an open source advocacy site.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 07, 2002
Unisys made its first run against the the Transaction Processing Performance Council's closely watched OLTP benchmark using Intel's Xeon MP processors in the 32-processor Unisys ES7000 server this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 06, 2002
Intel this week made available faster and more powerful Xeon MP processors, the high-end 32-bit processors that power four-way and larger industry-standard servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 06, 2002
IBM Corp. is immediately refreshing its Intel-based server line with new silicon from Intel. IBM's quick work advances Big Blue's already significant lead in delivering eight-way Xeon MP servers while main competitors HP and Dell continue to deliver eight-processor boxes populated with 900-MHz Pentium III Xeon processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 06, 2002
Yes, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's opinion on Friday to uphold most parts of the antitrust settlement and alter others only slightly looks like a clincher for the case. But when it comes to the courts, it ain't over 'til the … no wait, it's never over. The sad fact is that by the time situations like this get dragged into the courts, nobody ever really wins. The ensuing years tend to be a long-drawn out process of derivative actions, endless court dates and uncertainty.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 05, 2002