A destructive worm that began circulating in Europe and the United States early Wednesday hides behind a holiday cheer message, then distributes itself to an Outlook contacts list and delivers a destructive payload.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2001
An industry tracking group reports that retail sales of Windows XP in its first two months of availability lag behind sales of Windows 98 in that product's first two months of availability, according to The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft counters that Windows XP's heavy system requirements mean that most Windows XP sales are coming with new systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2001
Two more vendors endured Veritest's battery of tests to earn the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server application certification in recent weeks.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2001
A vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer earned a "critical" label on Microsoft's new security rating system. A cumulative patch fixes three new issues and all previous issues affecting IE versions 5.5 and 6.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2001
Heroix updated its flagship Windows 2000 and Windows NT monitoring product this week with support for WebLogic, DB2, Sybase and NetWare.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2001
Microsoft expanded its Server Appliance Kit with an enhancement specifically aimed at the needs of IT managers.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2001
Microsoft took the wraps off of Service Pack 1 for Office XP, a new update for its flagship office productivity suite.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 17, 2001
In an attempt to move the standard high-volume price model into a new sector, Intel this week rolled out building blocks for creating carrier-grade servers running Windows or Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 13, 2001
Several U.S. Senators criticized the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the federal government that would end the Department of Justice antitrust action against Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 13, 2001
Microsoft plans to release the final version 2.0 of its Active Directory Migration Tool before it ships the next full version of Windows .NET Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 12, 2001
Microsoft signalled an important shift in its attitude toward single-forest versus multi-forest Active Directory deployments this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 12, 2001
Acknowledging a shortcoming in documentation, Microsoft is working to make more best practices documents available to help customers move their Windows networks to the Active Directory.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 12, 2001
Microsoft has said that it plans to officially support Windows NT 4.0 through July 1, 2003 –- at which point the operating system will no longer be available from VARs or channel resellers. But the software giant recently stepped up its efforts to distance itself from its aging operating system platform.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 10, 2001
It's almost been two years since Windows 2000 hit the market. Yet Windows NT 4.0 maintains a strong market presence and is frequently installed on <i>new</i> servers. <b><i>ENT</b></i> asks analysts and customers why.
Microsoft moved to patch a new vulnerability in Exchange 5.5’s Outlook Web Access (OWA) component that could enable an attacker to gain access to – and take action against – a user’s e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 07, 2001
Seagate this week unveiled a new line of SCSI disk drives designed for
inexpensive workstations and servers and expected to be distributed
primarily through channel resellers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 06, 2001
Microsoft released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Exchange 2000 today. Although it boasts several new performance and usability enhancements, Microsoft says that SP2 has been designed primarily to augment Exchange’s Outlook Web Access (OWA) component.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 05, 2001
Microsoft is preparing a tool for release with Visual Studio .NET that will tighten the relationship between Microsoft's .NET Web services vision and its existing SQL Server 2000 database.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2001
The next version of SQL Server, code-named "Yukon," will enter widespread beta testing in the second half of 2002, and ship sometime in 2003, according to a senior Microsoft official.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2001
The way Oracle promoted its Oracle9i Real Application Clusters this week at Oracle OpenWorld might give the impression that the technology is for anything but Windows. Compaq, however, quietly offered what appears to be the first packaging of the technology on Windows servers this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2001