Windows 2000 received the Common Criteria security certification on Tuesday after Microsoft invested millions of dollars and three years of effort to gain the certification.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 29, 2002
Unisys Corp. on Monday introduced several pre-configured database bundles that it says will enable customers to rapidly deploy and support large database environments. The new systems, which feature Microsoft’s Windows 2000 Datacenter Server hosted on Unisys’ Intel-based ES7000 servers, are also outfitted with SQL Server 2000 and matched with storage capacity from EMC Corp.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 28, 2002
Intel was one of the loudest, largest and most active early backers of InfiniBand. That's why the chip giant's decision over the summer to discontinue work on hardware products involving the fledgling server interconnect technology was widely viewed as a very bad sign for InfiniBand.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2002
The massive Distributed Denial of Service attack earlier this week against the backbone of the Internet has created a classic game of "Is the glass half empty or half full?"
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2002
Analysts at market research house IDC are throwing cold water on the idea that the revolutionary phase of Web services -- delivering software as services -- will take hold soon. According to IDC, that development is at least 10 years away.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2002
An Israeli security firm, GreyMagic Software, documented nine new vulnerabilities in recent versions of Internet Explorer, eight of which the firm calls "critical."
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2002
Microsoft updated the componentized version of Windows XP this week with the delivery of Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1. The SP1 release brings expanded foreign-language support, the Microsoft .NET Framework, remote boot and diskless operation.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2002
Microsoft's Office 11, which will include a major overhaul of the Outlook e-mail client and XML integration across the product line, went into its first beta testing phase this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2002
Stratus Technologies upped the ante on uptime guarantees this week with an offer promising 100 percent uptime on Windows servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2002
Microsoft used its recent financial earnings report to highlight momentum in its server and business products. Strong performers, according to the company, included SQL Server Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP Professional.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2002
Unisys ran its first TPC benchmark with one of its 16-processor, Windows-optimized systems using the 64-bit Itanium 2 processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 17, 2002
IDC forecasts that in the third quarter of 2002 the standard Intel architecture server market will show growth for the first time since the beginning of 2001. Don't get too excited, the market research firm warns. After the awful first half of 2002, worldwide server sales should still be down 9 percent in 2002 compared to 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 17, 2002
Microsoft released three security bulletins late Wednesday, including one with a patch for a critical flaw in its SQL Server database. The other two bulletins included patches for moderate threats to the Windows XP Help and Support Center and to a seldom-used feature of Word and Excel. The flurry of security bulletins takes Microsoft to 61 bulletins so far in 2002, one more than the software giant issued for all of 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 17, 2002
Microsoft introduced consistency and predictability into its formerly haphazard product lifecycle support on Tuesday by laying out a policy and creating a single Web site where customers can check on the support status of all Microsoft's software.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2002
Messaging and groupware toolkit vendor DYS Analytics ported its Email Control! tool for monitoring and managing e-mail in large environments to the Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000 platforms.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 16, 2002
Microsoft laid out the end dates for regular support of most of its products on Tuesday as it detailed its first Software Lifecycle policy. Windows NT 4.0's support deadlines stayed consistent with what the software giant announced last December. End dates for regular support of Microsoft's other major enterprise products: December 2003 for Exchange 5.5, March 2004 for SQL Server 7.0 and March 2005 for Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 16, 2002
Ever wonder what the alpha user of Microsoft software, Microsoft's internal IT Group, is doing about security? Microsoft corporate vice president and chief information officer Rick Devenuti offered a glimpse last week during MEC 2002 in Anaheim, Calif.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 15, 2002
While the combination of Microsoft Corp.’s BizTalk Server and XML Web services is showing promise as an enterprise application integration tool, it’s still too early to tell whether Redmond will stake a claim to turf along side traditional EAI heavyweights.
- By Matt Migliore
- October 15, 2002
Every time Microsoft rolls out a major new enterprise product, the software giant claims itself as a long-running early adopter in production systems.
At MEC 2002 in Anaheim, Calif., Microsoft corporate vice president and CIO Rick Devenuti explained how his IT department reconciles its top priority of being "Microsoft's best and first customer" with its more standard role of making sure employees in this global Fortune 500 company always have access to the applications they need to do the jobs that keep the revenue flowing.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 10, 2002
Microsoft corporate vice president and CIO Rick Devenuti is seeing several benefits from an internal early deployment of Windows .NET Server 2003 and expecting others with the Exchange Titanium release.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 10, 2002