OEMs and retailers are citing a lack of customer interest for their decisions not to load onto new computers or stock the version of Windows XP without the Windows Media Player that the European Commission ordered Microsoft to offer, according to a media report.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 23, 2005
Windows 2000, Microsoft's five year-old operating system for servers and business desktops, will switch into the "extended support" phase of the product lifecycle after June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 22, 2005
The versions of Windows XP stripped of Windows Media Player to comply with a European Commission order will start shipping this month, Microsoft said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
System requirements proving hard to nail down; breakthroughs for some scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2005
Microsoft is battling the perception that there's little to get excited about in the long-awaited and much-ballyhooed Longhorn.
- By Scott Bekker and Ed Scannell
- June 01, 2005
Propagating the changes made to a Group Policy Object out to all the affected domain clients involves a complex array of interconnecting pieces.
- By Bill Boswell
- September 01, 2004
Windows Terminal Services comes bundled with Windows Server 2003. Citrix costs
extra. Here’s why you might consider paying the piper.
- By Greg Shields
- September 01, 2004
Audit Collection Services provides a scalable means of consolidating security event logs across your enterprise.
- By Don Jones
- September 01, 2004
When you have to create a custom delegation task, get your structural setup completed and then create a custom console.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- September 01, 2004
Windows XP laptops continue to "sleep" from Standby mode.
- By Bill Boswell
- August 10, 2004
Manage your server network with a customized Microsoft Management Console.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- August 01, 2004
A bevy of often-overlooked settings are available in Group Policy Objects.
- By Don Jones
- August 01, 2004
Alternatives to the standard IE.
- By Don Jones
- July 28, 2004
Migration to Exchange 2000 seems to go fine, but setup comes to a screeching halt for this admin.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 27, 2004
Use caution when setting log file limits; plus, some scripting books to check out.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 06, 2004