One of the Windows server platform's key differentiators over Linux is disappearing as the open-source platform reaches eight-processor scalability.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 26, 2002
A new worm masquerading as a visual joke about Bill Clinton represents the latest social engineering attempt by virus writers to get users to commit an old mistake. Payload damage is potentially serious, but horrible spelling errors make it unlikely that any but the least sophisticated users will be affected, antivirus vendors say.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2002
Microsoft this week turned its recent patch for the Microsoft Virtual Machine into a cumulative patch. A second critical flaw was discovered in the Microsoft Virtual Machine that could allow a malicious user to create a Java applet that executes code on a user's machine outside the Java "sandbox."
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2002
Intel this week revealed a low-power processor capable of being used in dual-processor blade servers for rack-dense server farms.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2002
In one of its fastest service pack releases, Microsoft this week issued an SP1 for the .NET Framework that was released to manufacturing in January and formally launched a month later.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 22, 2002
Winternals Software released an updated version of its Administrator's Pak on Wednesday that includes new utilities and adds Windows XP support.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 21, 2002
Cue the Mission Impossible theme music. NEC Computers thinks it's identified a niche for its fault-tolerant Windows servers in government agencies looking for biometric security solutions.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 21, 2002
Microsoft launched the Beta 2 release of its Visual J# .NET tool this week, continuing its battle for developers with Sun Microsystems.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 21, 2002
Precise Software Solutions is using its prominent position in Windows server storage to attempt a step up into the software sector that provides higher level views of a company's storage capacity.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 20, 2002
As a result of the HP-Compaq merger, assuming good execution, enterprise customers can expect HP to beef up its services offerings, as well as its Windows-based server and workstation lines. There will be an added thrust in developing and marketing Itanium-based processors.
- By Joe McKendrick
- March 20, 2002
As is common with launches of new processor lines, the new Intel Xeon MPs do not deliver on their performance promises yet, even in benchmark situations.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 19, 2002
Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina announced that a preliminary examination of shareholder votes shows that HP shareholders approved the company's merger with Compaq Computer Corp.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 19, 2002
- By Scott Bekker
- March 19, 2002
Microsoft changed the keynote topic for its 10th annual TechEd show in New Orleans in April from Windows .NET Server to just .NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 19, 2002
Redmond opened the nomination process late last month for users and organizations interested in beta testing the forthcoming 64-bit version of SQL Server, codenamed Liberty, and for a fourth service pack for SQL Server 7.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 14, 2002
In just two years since exploding onto the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) market with SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services, Microsoft already shares the No. 1 position in market share with Hyperion Solutions, according to an analyst report. The same report projects that Microsoft will easily overtake Hyperion for sole ownership of the No. 1 spot in 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 14, 2002
A Microsoft technical white paper, however, explains that Windows 2000 Server in many cases cannot properly exploit the Hyper-Threading technology in the Xeon MP.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 13, 2002
The way the operating system interacts with the BIOS means Windows counts the virtual processor created by Intel's new Hyper-Threading technology against the processor licensing limit. The glitch raises problems for users with more than half the physical processors their version of Windows 2000 is supposed to support.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 13, 2002
Microsoft shifted its focus in developing an embedded version of the Windows .NET Server operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 13, 2002
IBM took a major step toward broadening the choices for customers interested in greater-than-eight-processor Windows servers. IBM rolled out the eight-processor version in its Enterprise X-Architecture line. The next piece, set to come in July, will be a 16-way system.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 13, 2002