Second ISV application in as many weeks earns the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server application certification logo.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2001
Dell Computer Corp. introduced a departmental or branch office server priced at less than $2,000 on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2001
Intel Corp. added five new mobile processors and three mobile chipsets to its product line this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2001
Amid legal and government bureaucracy challenges to Microsoft's Windows XP release, the company pushed out the second release candidate for the next-generation client operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2001
RSA Security signed an agreement to buy authorization software vendor Securant Technologies Inc. for $136 million.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2001
A consortium of companies, institutions and government agencies warned organizations running Internet Information Services to protect their Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems against the Code Red Worm before Tuesday night.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 30, 2001
For the third time in three days, Microsoft Corp. alerted customers to a serious new bug in its Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems. And in a separate action, the software giant confirmed the existence of a vulnerability in its Windows Media Player application that could allow an attacker to execute code of her choice on a compromised system.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 27, 2001
IBM became the first application vendor aside from Microsoft to earn the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server logo with the recent certification of its DB2 Universal Database version 7.2.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 26, 2001
Microsoft issued a fix to patch a Terminal Services bug that makes Windows servers vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 26, 2001
Quest expanded the range of tools for managing Windows 2000 Active Directory environments this week with a diagnostic module for Microsoft's directory service.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 26, 2001
Privacy watchdog groups filed a complaint Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission challenging Microsoft's attempts to integrate Windows XP, Passport and eventually Hailstorm.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 26, 2001
Hewlett-Packard Co. bought storage company StorageApps in a stock-for-stock deal valued at $350 million.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 25, 2001
Maxtor Corp. launched a 400-GB, 1U file server this week based on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server Appliance Kit.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 25, 2001
Microsoft patched a memory leak in its Unix interoperability software that an attacker could exploit to take down a Windows server.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 25, 2001
Columnist Joseph McKendrick asks "what if?" as the possibility of a Microsoft breakup in the antitrust case recedes.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 25, 2001
VMWare Inc. unveiled a new version of its virtual machine application software – dubbed GSX Server – for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2001
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is calling for senate hearings on Windows XP, and is urging antitrust officials to delay the client OS's release unless PC manufacturers and consumers can choose their media player, messenger service and other software in addition to the browser.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2001
The .NET generation of Visual Studio gained a third flavor this week with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET Academic.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2001
Internet Information Services 6.0 boasts a new kernel-mode caching capability that could greatly enhance the Web server's performance.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2001
Even as the government tries to hurry the antitrust case back into U.S. District Court, Microsoft Corp. moved to keep the action in the U.S. Court of Appeals for a little while longer.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 20, 2001