Microsoft this week posted Service Pack 2 for Office 2003 to its Download Center and began distributing the service pack through its sprawling update infrastructure.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 28, 2005
Buried in an unrelated storage announcement this week was a sign that Microsoft is making headway in encouraging a line of branch office appliances built on Windows Server 2003 R2.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 28, 2005
Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft's free team collaboration technology for Windows file servers, learns a few new tricks in a service pack posted this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 28, 2005
Zenprise is shipping its management tool of the same name for real-time, automated diagnosis and resolution of Microsoft Exchange problems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 28, 2005
The same week that Microsoft shipped its System Center Data Protection Manager, Symantec, one of Microsoft’s largest competitors in that space, is shipping its own first product that embraces continuous data protection.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 28, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday released a beta of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, which will include enhancements for storage management, collaboration and branch usage.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 27, 2005
With renewed interest in attracting small business customers, IBM has begun to ship the first machines in a new line of single-processor, x86-based, low-cost servers targeted specifically to provide “enterprise class” technology to small-scale businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 27, 2005
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, a new disk-based backup and recovery server for Windows file servers, became generally available on Tuesday. Several partners are rolling out hardware and software based on DPM to coincide with the launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 27, 2005
It's been a busy few weeks for Microsoft's "Office 12" project. Having said nearly nothing at all about the next version of the office productivity suite and its accompanying servers for a year, Microsoft hasn't been able to stop talking about the suite for the last few weeks. A recap of some of the major new elements.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 26, 2005
VBrick Systems is shipping a video-on-demand network appliance that supports Microsoft Windows Media (WM) video and audio formats in enterprise environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 22, 2005
Strong demand in international markets, and especially for notebooks, will likely drive worldwide sales of new PCs this year to well over 200 million units, research firm IDC said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 22, 2005
While the world waits for single-sign on to become a reality, 1-abc.net is shipping version 1.10 of its Password Organizer product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 22, 2005
An MSDN subscription will net you a copy of Virtual Server 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2005
Dell’s recent decision to exit the Itanium-based server market may appear on the surface to be another blow to Intel’s 64-bit CPU plans, but it falls far short of putting the chip architecture out to pasture, say analysts.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 21, 2005
Add one more acronym to the list of security compliance laws supported by NetIQ’s Security Compliance Suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 21, 2005
Microsoft this week acquired certificate management and identity assurance software provider, Alacris Inc. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2005
Microsoft shuffled the deck of top executives on Tuesday, consolidating its seven divisions into three and naming four presidents to report to CEO Steve Ballmer. One of the new presidents, former senior vice president Jim Allchin, will retire at the end of 2006 when Windows Vista ships.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2005
Microsoft has always tried to nab every sale it can, but it hasn’t always been great about servicing the SMB channels, particularly channels for small businesses. That’s changing, according to senior Microsoft officials, or at the least, the company is renewing its emphasis on those smaller customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 20, 2005
Microsoft is in talks with Time Warner about buying a stake in the media giant's AOL unit, according to reports in the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2005
Microsoft volume licensing customers who sign up for Software Assurance will get Windows "Eiger," Virtual PC Express and Windows Vista Enterprise Edition among other new benefits. Most of the benefits start in March.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2005