Real Enterprise Solutions announced Thursday that it is shipping Wisdom, a new integrated change and configuration management tool for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 14, 2005
Softricity is shipping version 3.2 of its SoftGrid Windows application virtualization package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 14, 2005
SonaSoft began shipping its SonaSafe Exchange Standby Solution, an integrated disk-to-disk backup and recovery and disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 14, 2005
Microsoft settled its legal dispute with Alacritech over the TCP Chimney networking technology for offloading network protocol processing, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal clears the way for Microsoft to deliver early next year the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003, an out-of-band feature pack that had been in legal limbo.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2005
An R2 version of Windows Small Business Server 2003 will follow the R2 release of the other editions of Windows Server 2003 by 60 to 90 days, Microsoft officials said at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 12, 2005
Microsoft issued three critical security patches on its July patching day Tuesday, including the fix for a dangerous problem in the JVIEW Profiler for which Microsoft issued a kill bit last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 12, 2005
Executive Software changed its company name to the match name of its signature product, the popular Diskeeper disk defragmenter.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2005
Microsoft continues to investigate a vulnerable component in Internet Explorer for which it posted a kill bit last week, but it is unlikely the software giant will include the fix as part of its monthly patching event on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2005
Microsoft took advantage of two conferences in the last week to provide an early look at Microsoft CRM 3.0, the follow-on to Microsoft CRM 1.2.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2005
Microsoft distributed more than 218 million copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a senior Microsoft executive told an audience of Microsoft partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2005
Microsoft's plans for virtualization technologies are in a state of flux, but company officials have been very clear that they're searching for ways to bring the technologies close to the core of Microsoft's infrastructure software stack.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2005
The Sasser worm exploded onto the Internet in May 2004, taking down hundreds of thousands of computers, slowing network traffic and causing millions of dollars of damage with its automated exploitation of a flaw in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The worm's trajectory ended Friday with a conviction and 21-month suspended sentence for Sven Jaschan, who succeeded spectacularly in what German authorities suggested was his motive -- gaining fame as a programmer.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2005
It's no secret that Microsoft is eager to increase its midmarket sales. On Thursday, Microsoft launched one of its first specific initiatives in the space with a discounted, three-server solution that it will rely on partners to deliver.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2005
In conjunction with the launch of a Windows Server System promotion for midmarket businesses on Thursday, Microsoft is making available a number of new resources for organizations with 25-500 PCs.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2005
Active Directory was a star of Microsoft's TechEd 2005 Europe show, with the company rolling out a number of programs and partnerships for improving the interoperability of its proprietary directory service.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2005
Citrix Systems announced it is shipping Citrix Access Essentials, a variant of its popular remote access products that run on top of Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Server designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- July 07, 2005
Following a familiar pattern of chasing heavy patching months with light months, the Microsoft Security Response Center on Thursday said that its monthly security patch release day next Tuesday will bring three new security bulletins.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2005
- By Scott Bekker
- July 06, 2005
Some Citrix users are running into problems after installing Microsoft's Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 06, 2005
Microsoft's recently acquired Sybari Software subsidiary took a first public step toward fitting in on Wednesday with the release of a Sybari Antigen management pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 06, 2005