IBM last week agreed to acquire development tools vendor Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion. The deal is the second largest software acquisition in Big Blue's history and brings up interesting issues surrounding Rational's support for .NET.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 11, 2002
Microsoft issued new security bulletins warning users of moderate threats due to vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2002
Intel took a step this week to make it easier for developers to use the Hyper Threading technology in its newest processors. The chipmaker released new compilers for translating C++ and Fortran code into the machine language understood by the processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
In rolling out Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 on Thursday, Microsoft also offered the bulk of its user base a first look at a new tool for the prickly problems of Group Policy management.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
Microsoft officially posted Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 to the Web for download on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
As Microsoft puts the finishing touches on Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 for posting later this week, the software giant also previewed new options for Client Access Licenses that should give customers a little more power to match CALs to their needs.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 04, 2002
Microsoft will post Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 this week, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. RC2 will probably be the last widely distributed test version of the server operating system before it is released to manufacturing sometime in the first quarter of 2003. General availability of Windows .NET Server 2003 is scheduled for April.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2002
Two of the nine states that sought tougher antitrust remedies for Microsoft will appeal a federal judge's decision last month to accept Microsoft's settlement with the Justice Department and reject the harsher penalties.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2002
HP updated its line of ProLiant-branded, Intel-based servers this week by making available a rack-dense, four-processor system and announcing a pair of 1U servers that will ship later this month. All three servers feature remote management and fault resilient technologies.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2002
The number of digital attacks in the United States rose by 13 percent in November despite an 8 percent decline worldwide, according to a London-based security firm.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 02, 2002
Netcraft is trying to correct a misimpression surrounding Microsoft's two-week-old security bulletin involving Microsoft Data Access Components.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 02, 2002
In the non-Microsoft-exam world, there are serious budget constraints,
manpower shortages and management conflicts over upgrading.
- By Bill Boswell
- December 01, 2002
</i>MCP Magazine<i>'s</i> experts name the products they can't live without.
See what you may want to add to your Windows network management operations.
- By Kristen McCarthy
- December 01, 2002
Fashion plate; reading the fine print; demystifying printing for users.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- December 01, 2002
<b>Winner: </b>Visualware VisualRoute 6.1a<br>
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<b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#nessoft">Nessoft Ping Plotter</a>
- By Rodney Landrum
- December 01, 2002
Setting up a common area for sharing resources is easy. Here's how to do it with SharePoint Portal Server.
- By Bill Heldman
- December 01, 2002
<b>Winner: </b>O&O Software O&O Defrag 4 Professional<br>
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<b>Honorable Mention: </b><a href="#diskeeper">Executive Software Diskeeper
</a>
- By Joseph L. Jorden
- December 01, 2002
St. Bernard’s iPrism helps keep employees in check.
- By James Carrion
- December 01, 2002
So many security toys, so little time.
- By Roberta Bragg
- December 01, 2002
As the holiday season approaches, projects tend to slow down. How do you join the human race?
- By Mike Gunderloy
- December 01, 2002