As Microsoft systems are repeatedly impacted by malicious worms, the importance of keeping up to date on hotfixes and service packs has been hammered home for IT. Fortunately, several tools are available to help with the job, and the toolsets are maturing.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 15, 2001
Despite the anti-IIS hype and the recent worm exploits, many customers tell ENT they aren't considering replacing IIS. Analysts say a widespread move away from IIS is unlikely.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 15, 2001
IBM used Comdex to share its plans with customers for the greater-than-eight-processor Intel architecture servers it will release next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 15, 2001
Microsoft released a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer (IE) versions 5.x and 6.0. The patch fixes all known IE issues -– and addresses three new vulnerabilities, as well.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 14, 2001
With the release of a new IDC report on storage market share, vendors are scrambling to claim victory. IBM Corp., EMC Corp., and Compaq Computer Corp. all have claims to the storage crown.
Microsoft claims 7 million copies of Windows XP shipped in the two weeks since it launched the new OS. Microsoft calls the number "amazing." One industry analyst who follows Microsoft shipment numbers closely says the momentum is less stunning than it might sound.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 14, 2001
You'd expect database giant Oracle to offer a migration program for SQL Server database customers, but Exchange customers? Larry Ellison made a play for Microsoft's e-mail server customer base this week during his annual Comdex keynote.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 14, 2001
Unisys posted another industry-standard benchmark this week in its patient campaign to prove its CMP server loaded with 32 Intel Xeons and Windows can scale to handle the largest loads.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 13, 2001
Microsoft dramatically lowered the price for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and its add-on Application Management Pack this month.
MOM is a consolidated management environment for data centers based on Microsoft Windows 2000 servers and .NET family applications.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 13, 2001
Bill Gates this week unveiled a February launch date for Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft's flagship tool to allow developers to create its much-hyped Web services-based applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 13, 2001
Changes in the versions of Microsoft's server operating systems mean Microsoft will push for large and medium businesses to standardize on the renamed Enterprise Server (formerly Advanced Server). Meanwhile, a new Windows .NET Web Server is supposed to compete with Apache.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 12, 2001
Cypress Semiconductor purchased Advanced Systems' ActiveBatch job scheduling software to manage an implementation of i2 planning software. Cypress' director of technical operations envisions a growing role for the job scheduling tool.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 08, 2001
The InfiniBand community began its fourth conference Wednesday with a new track for end users. Organization co-founder says InfiniBand products should hit the market in Q2 '02.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 07, 2001
Microsoft continues to develop specialty standards on top of the base Web services stack, teaming with IBM to propose a specification for inspection after announcing specs for licensing, routing and security last month at its Professional Developer Conference.
- By Matt Migliore
- November 07, 2001
Precise Software Solutions released a major upgrade to W. Quinn's StorageCentral SRM enterprise storage performance management suite this week that features tight integration with Microsoft's Active Directory.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 07, 2001
Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and nine states reached a proposed settlement in the antitrust case Tuesday. But with 9 other states and the District of Columbia passing on the settlement, the case remains far from over.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 06, 2001
The oversight committee created in the antitrust settlement between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice qualifies as the "teeth" of an agreement otherwise blasted by the state attorneys general and competitors as being too soft.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 06, 2001
VMWare Inc. Monday unveiled an updated version of its virtual machine environment, VMWare Workstation 3.0, which incorporates support for Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows XP operating system among other improvements.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 06, 2001
Microsoft Corp. issued a software hotfix to patch a problem that could render its brand new Windows XP client operating system susceptible to denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. The problem is rated as low risk in Microsoft's new rating system.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 02, 2001
It’s official: The United States Justice Department and Microsoft Corp. disclosed Friday that they have reached a settlement agreement in their long-simmering antitrust case.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 02, 2001