Microsoft released seven security bulletins, including two bulletins that addressed critical flaws affecting Windows. The other five bulletins included patches for flaws with a maximum severity rating of "important" in Windows and Office.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 14, 2006
When Microsoft releases Windows Vista sometime in the second half of this year, two huge stars will be lining up. The first full release of a new Microsoft operating system in five years will be arriving to at least a couple of years worth of pent up demand among users. At the same time, new PCs running with dual-core processors running under the hood will be plentiful, though still a bit pricey. That leaves a big question: What should you do?
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 13, 2006
Microsoft came late to desktop search; it doesn’t intend to make the same mistake with mobile search. The company announced Monday that it has bought MotionBridge, a French maker of "mobile search" technology.
- By Keith Ward
- February 13, 2006
Microsoft’s recent moves to release portions of its Windows server source code to competitors has struck a chord with the U.S. Department of Justice and the states who participated in its landmark antitrust trial.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 09, 2006
Microsoft is shipping the first beta of Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2006, as well as early select customer betas of its Microsoft Client Protection and Microsoft Antigen for Exchange products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 09, 2006
Borland Software announced Wednesday that it is getting out of the integrated development environment (IDE) business and plans to sell off its legendary programming tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 09, 2006
SWsoft is shipping a minor update to its Virtuozzo server virtualization product for Windows that adds a graphical "physical-to-virtual" migration tool to help administrators automate the process of moving from a dedicated physical server to a virtual server environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 08, 2006
Symantec says it will ship next month an update to its BindView Policy Manager, the first major update since it acquired BindView earlier this year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 08, 2006
Users of Universe Software’s pdf-Formserver package can now save .PDF forms together with user data.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 08, 2006
EMC's VMware unit has released a beta of its new VMware Server, a free, entry-level hosted virtualization environment for Windows and Linux servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 07, 2006
Scriptlogic Corp. yesterday announced File System Auditor, a tool that lets corporations see exactly who has done what with company files.
- By Doug Barney
- February 07, 2006
Storage vendor EMC Corp. said Monday it has begun shipping the first components of a new line of its storage products scoped for small and medium-sized business use, and will soon ship others.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 07, 2006
In a move the company says aims to improve how it responds to users' needs, Microsoft announced a recent restructuring of its Customer Service organization that merges it with the venerable Product Support Services unit.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 07, 2006
Zenprise Inc. is shipping a version of its Microsoft Exchange e-mail management package designed for customers with 1,000 or fewer workers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 02, 2006
Backup and restore software vendor UltraBac is shipping version 3 of its UBDR Gold package, adding the ability to restore files to a machine that is not physically identical to the one the backup was performed on.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 02, 2006
Microsoft announced this week that it is merging its Exchange Server group with its Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) group, as it begins to think of the two technologies comprising a "platform."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 01, 2006
BMC Software today announced the release of BMC Identity Management for .NET, an identity management solution for Microsoft .NET technologies.
- By Dan Hong
- February 01, 2006
The long-awaited "Release 2" of Windows Server 2003 is finally out, albeit a couple of months later than originally planned. In addition, Microsoft is also shipping an update to its Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- February 01, 2006
Microsoft released a preview of Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 to the general public on Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 31, 2006
As Windows Vista grinds ever closer to commercial release, Microsoft has begun converging its beta test program and its technology preview program for customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 31, 2006