Microsoft sought to mend ties with frustrated customers when it announced plans to ease the transition to its controversial Licensing 6.0 program.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 09, 2001
Compaq Computer Corp. on Friday announced plans to recall approximately 1.4 million AC power adapters that it’s bundled since 1998 with notebook computers in both the U.S. and abroad.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 08, 2001
Slightly over a year after first launching its Pocket PC platform in April 2000, Microsoft last week took the wraps off of PocketPC 2002.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 08, 2001
Microsoft released a hotfix to patch a serious new vulnerability in its Excel and PowerPoint Office productivity applications.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 05, 2001
Microsoft now offers MSDN subscriptions that correspond to all three versions of the forthcoming Visual Studio .NET. The new subscription levels became available this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 04, 2001
The warnings were dire: users disgusted by the security vulnerabilities in IIS that were exploited by Nimda and Code Red would flee Microsoft's Web server in droves. A Web hosting watchdog group says no mass migrations appear to have happened yet.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 04, 2001
Open Software Associates is changing its name to ManageSoft Corp., and previewing a new version of its key software management and deployment platform.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 04, 2001
Taking issue with Microsoft's claims about NetWare 6 in a recent marketing campaign, Novell filed suit against Microsoft this week in federal court in Salt Lake City.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 03, 2001
Compaq enters new territory in price-performance competition by going below the $5 threshold on the TPC-C benchmark with a Compaq ProLiant running Windows 2000 Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 03, 2001
These tricks and tools will help you seek out and destroy problem policies.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- October 01, 2001
By excluding Java Virtual Machine in Windows XP, Microsoft puts users
in the middle of its playground war.
- By Em C. Pea
- October 01, 2001
The wizard is great, but you'll have to dig deeper to reap all of WSC's rewards.
- By Chris Brooke
- October 01, 2001
This health system's organization had its migration strategy all mapped out. But then reality intervened, causing a major course-change.
- By Alan Knowles
- October 01, 2001
With the release of a .NET-based Exchange 2000 Server Developer Enablement Kit at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) 2001, Microsoft is nudging Exchange developers toward building Web services.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2001
Exam 70-217 requires solid knowledge of Active Directory. Analyzing questions as well as answers (both right and wrong) can help prepare you for the task ahead.
- By James Carrion
- October 01, 2001
A year after the launch of Exchange 2000, Microsoft claims its total number of licensed seats across all versions of its Exchange Server has reached 94 million.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2001
Less than four months after releasing the first version of its mobile communications server, Microsoft announced a roadmap for a second release due to ship in early 2002. The new version improves Outlook connectivity. Microsoft also signs a deal to ease enterprise setup.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2001
Good developers make it a habit to keep up with the vast developer resources on the Internet. Here are a few of my favorites.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- October 01, 2001
This manufacturing company is seeing its operations
spread out around the planet and using Windows
2000 to tie it all together.
- By David Poppel
- October 01, 2001
File Transfer Protocol has been around a while, and it's still one of the most useful tools to have under your Windows 2000 belt.
- By Michael Chacon
- October 01, 2001