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
The long-awaited ruling in the settlement phase of the Microsoft antitrust case is in.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly approved the terms of the settlement Microsoft agreed to with the Department of Justice and the nine states a year ago.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2002
Licensing confusion, and more salary survey feedback.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- November 01, 2002
Computer Associates Int’l Inc. (CA) this week announced version 9 of BrightStor ARCServe Backup. CA bills ARCServe 9 as a significant redesign of its flagship backup product for Windows, Linux and NetWare.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 31, 2002
The flaw results from an unchecked buffer in Microsoft's PPTP
implementation. The bulletin was one of three security bulletins
released by Microsoft's security team on Thursday. The other
newly patched vulnerabilities involve Internet Information Server
and Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 31, 2002