Microsoft posted a security advisory to warn customers using "Simple File and Print Sharing" on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 1 that they are at increased risk for the flaw patched two weeks ago in bulletin MS05-039.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 24, 2005
As expected, Intel told attendees at this week’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco that the next generation of its processors will follow a low-power path to reduce heat leakage while still providing higher performance than ever.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 24, 2005
Epicor Software says it will ship in the fourth quarter a major update to its enterprise portal solution that uses Microsoft’s SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Portal Server as its underlying infrastructure.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 23, 2005
Winternals Software is shipping version 4 of its Defrag Manager utility for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 23, 2005
AssetMetrix has added software license management to the list of services it provides through its subscription-based asset management service for IT.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 23, 2005
Even as a Microsoft advisory took an unnamed group of security researchers to task for releasing information about the flaw and exploit code publicly, Microsoft itself was scolded by incident handlers at the SANS Institute for providing an infrastructure with IE that allows such attacks in the first place.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 19, 2005
Microsoft plans to bolster the Software Assurance component of its volume licensing program next month with several additional benefits covering deployment services, enhanced support, training and exclusive software, according to a source familiar with Microsoft's plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 18, 2005
According to a senior Microsoft executive, Microsoft is introducing
what he calls a "big change" to Visual Studio 2005 in the August
Community Technology Preview that is coming out shortly. Such a major change is unusual for a product this late in the development cycle.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 17, 2005
Microsoft plans to release a Community Technology Preview of
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 17, 2005
CNN, New York Times, Caterpillar and others reported serious problems
from worms stemming from the Plug and Play vulnerability in
Windows 2000. Microsoft continues to rate the worms a low threat.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 17, 2005
Houston, Texas-based BindView Corp. says this quarter it will ship an update to its regulatory compliance tracking and reporting tool, that adds support for major databases and for Microsoft Exchange.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 17, 2005
VMware announced this week it will price its products per CPU and not per core, assuring users that they will not be penalized for moving to emerging multi-core processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 17, 2005
Quest Software this week revealed its initial blueprint for the integration of Vintela technology with Quest tools. Quest bought Vintela in a $57 million deal that closed last month.
- By Doug Barney
- August 16, 2005
As the multi-core duel heats up, Intel moved to steal some thunder from AMD this week by announcing it will ship its first dual-core Xeon CPUs earlier than promised. Additionally, over the weekend, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company slashed prices on several of its Pentium 4 desktop processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 16, 2005
Confused by Microsoft's jumble of directory technologies for user-account management? ENT contributing editor Stuart Johnston sorts out the differences between Microsoft's existing Microsoft Identity Integration Server and its forthcoming Active Directory Federation Services, and explains where third-party tools from Quest/Vintela and Centrify fit into the puzzle.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 16, 2005
A Microsoft official said that a dangerous new worm dubbed Zotob is spreading slowly, but Microsoft is on high alert and the company recommends that customers apply a patch for the Windows Plug and Play vulnerability the worm exploits.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 16, 2005
RightNow Technologies released RightNow CRM 7.5, the latest version of the company’s on demand CRM solution.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 11, 2005
Mike Lynn is being hailed in some quarters as a hero, but I don't buy
it. I'm sure his heart was in the right place when he discussed a serious
vulnerability in Cisco routers at the recent Black Hat USA conference, and his
courage in quitting his job, rather than be censored by Cisco and his
own employer, is admirable.
- By Keith Ward
- August 11, 2005
Houston, Texas-based data management tool vendor NuView says in the next month it will ship a new Active Directory security product aimed at providing administrators with a centralized view of all users and the resources they have access to on an enterprise-wide basis.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 11, 2005
AMD says it will release later this month SimNow, a free AMD64 simulator that will let developers work with the company’s next-generation processor technologies, including AMD’s virtualization technology, codenamed “Pacifica,” today.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- August 10, 2005