Intel put out a higher clockspeed processor for two-way servers and workstations this week. New to the Intel Xeon line are a 2.8-GHz model and a 2.6-GHz model.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2002
A security firm discovered that users who enable a rarely used feature in Microsoft's Outlook Express client could allow viruses, trojans and worms to slip past the usual array of perimeter security defenses, including gateway virus scanners, SMTP-checking firewalls and content filters.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2002
NEC blasted back into the high-end Windows scalability fray this week with the first major audited benchmark showing significant scalability for a 64-bit Windows-based system.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2002
The capacity of fault-tolerant Windows servers doubled this week as Stratus unveiled its long-awaited four-processor fault-tolerant Intel-based server. At the same time, the Massachusetts-based company has changed course on its original plans to vigorously drive down its own prices for its fault-tolerant technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2002
"Yukon," the code-name for a major overhaul of SQL Server, will be ready for general availability sometime during the 2004 fiscal year, and "Longhorn," the code-name for the Windows operating system release after Windows .NET Server 2003, is coming in 2005, according to a senior Microsoft official.
- By Matt Migliore
- September 12, 2002
The software giant teamed up with Unisys to demonstrate the performance advantages of 64-bit computing for large database applications.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 10, 2002
Microsoft released a Windows 2000-specific patch for a vulnerability the software giant disclosed last week involving the validation of digital certificates.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 10, 2002
Microsoft posted Windows XP Service Pack 1 to its Web site on Monday as promised for users and administrators to download. The bundle of security and bug fixes can also be ordered for CD shipment.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2002
A flaw associated with the manner in which Microsoft's cryptography application programming interface validates X.509 certificates could enable an attacker to perpetrate a variety of identity-spoofing attacks. The vulnerability also affects Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Office applications for the Macintosh.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 05, 2002
As IBM Corp. ramps up for the launch of Lotus Notes and Domino 6, Big Blue is releasing details of its internal deployment of the messaging and collaboration platform. Version 6 is scheduled to be released this quarter. It is the biggest Lotus product launch in several years.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 05, 2002
The IT analyst house Giga Information Group is impressed with the way IBM's new Intel-based servers scale from four processors to eight processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 05, 2002
Security remains a hot-button issue for Microsoft, as Brian Valentine, senior vice president for the Windows division at Microsoft, took center stage this morning at Windows Server DevCon in Seattle to tout Redmond’s new “hardened” approach to software development.
- By Matt Migliore
- September 05, 2002
Windows Server DevCon kicked off today in Seattle with Bill Veghte, corporate vice president for Microsoft, touting Windows .NET Server as “the fastest, most reliable and most secure” operating system ever to come out of Redmond.
- By Matt Migliore
- September 04, 2002
Microsoft has expanded on the roadmap for its Visual Studio developer suite through 2004 to give customers an indication of where the company is headed. The document shows Visual Studio .NET will be synchronized to three waves of products coming from Microsoft: Windows .NET Server 2003, Yukon and Longhorn.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 04, 2002
Javelina Software, a four-year-old company with a background in Banyan Vines, launched a toolset for Active Directory administrators on Tuesday at the MCP TechMentor conference in San Diego.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 03, 2002
UltraBac Software refreshed its flagship UltraBac 7.0 backup and restore software on Tuesday with a point release that adds support for using FTP servers or IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager as storage devices.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 03, 2002
Microsoft's first Windows XP service pack consolidates bug fixes, boasts new USB 2.0 and .NET support, and lets users pick and choose from among middleware application configurations. If you're not a PC manufacturer or Microsoft premier customer, however, don't expect to deploy it before September 9th.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 02, 2002
The IDC research contradicts an earlier report published by Gartner Dataquest that put the new HP out front.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 30, 2002
AMD converted its highest-end multiprocessing server and workstation chip to 0.13-micron technology. The AMD Athlon MP processor 2200+ can run in dual-processor servers and workstations.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 30, 2002
Worldwide usage of the AOL-Netscape Navigator browser hit a record low, according to outsourced Web analytics provider WebSideStory Inc.
"The browser war is in fact a massacre," WebSideStory StatMarket's vice president of marketing Geoff Johnston said in a statement. "Unless AOL makes a move soon, Netscape may find itself battling Opera for the last 1 [percent] to 2 percent of the market."
- By Scott Bekker
- August 29, 2002