It's all about timing. Microsoft formally synchronized the release of the next version of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework with Windows .NET Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 22, 2002
IBM Corp. will introduce an entry level version of its new modular, Intel-based servers.
On Aug. 30, IBM will begin offering two-way versions of the eServer x440 servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 22, 2002
Iomega Corp., best known for its handy Zip personal storage drives, is getting into the game of "Windows Powered" Network-Attached Storage by releasing devices running Windows 2000 technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2002
The market shares of the major Web servers surge and ebb with the fortunes of the largest Web hosters. When major ISPs go out of business or shift to Apache or to Internet Information Services, market shares for the platforms, as tracked by researchers at U.K.-based Netcraft, rise or fall.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2002
Rational Software is delivering a .NET Edition of its visual design and development environment. The Rational XDE Professional: .NET Edition earns the Microsoft .NET part of its name by supporting Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2002
Microsoft created a new cumulative patch for SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. A fix for a new flaw involving extended stored procedures in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 prompted Microsoft to roll up all the recent SQL Server patches.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2002
Microsoft warned users of an important new flaw in Windows 2000. A hacker could use an elaborate process to elevate his or her privileges through a security problem in the Network Connection Manager (NCM) within Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 20, 2002
A security company released information this week about what it calls an "extremely high risk" vulnerability involving the Apache open source Web server running on non-Unix platforms, such as Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2002
IT professionals interested in the stand-alone version of Active Directory for applications that Microsoft started discussing last month can find out more about the technology in a new white paper on Microsoft's Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 15, 2002
Economic downturns can be bright spots for certain industries. That appears to be partially the case with thin client computing.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2002
Dell and EMC this week released the first new piece of storage hardware under their five-year partnership unveiled in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2002
HP, which was supposed to be plagued by merger-related malaise and confusion in the second quarter of the calendar year, instead roared through the quarter in terms of U.S. server sales, according to a study by Gartner's Dataquest market research arm.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 14, 2002
Linux used to be about the little guy, independent developers working to perfect the grassroots operating system. But the loudest voices at this week’s LinuxWorld Expo are the giants of enterprise computing, IBM and Sun.
Microsoft issued a second service pack for the six-month-old Microsoft .NET Framework this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 08, 2002
Microsoft revealed a critical flaw in its Microsoft Content Management Server. The most serious of three newly discovered vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a server in the Local System context.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 08, 2002
Failover clustering is an upsell in Microsoft server operating systems. Users must buy Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server or Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition, to get it. Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced clustering software on Tuesday that works with plain-old Windows NT 4.0 Server of Windows 2000 Server. But there's a catch: It's only supported on HP's ProLiant servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 07, 2002
Still, the open source operating system did better than every operating environment but Windows in 2001 and should realize a 28 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, according to analysts at market research firm IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 07, 2002
Microsoft, Dell and Intel commit $60 million over four years to fund the expansion of an existing high-performance-computing cluster at the Cornell Theory Center. The agreement assures Microsoft of a continuing Windows presence in a large-scale research cluster, a field dominated in the price-performance end by Linux configurations.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 07, 2002
During a news conference on steps Microsoft is taking to comply with the antitrust settlement, company officials said Windows XP Service Pack 1 will be available in the next two months.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 06, 2002
Microsoft posted Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 late Thursday, two days after making SP3 available to Premier Customers. The oft-delayed bundle of regression-tested bug fixes is the first Windows 2000 service pack so far that Microsoft has recommended that users install.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 02, 2002