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CRM Application Clears Datacenter Certification Hurdle

Second ISV application in as many weeks earns the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server application certification logo.

Dell Drives Down Price Point on Workgroup Servers

Dell Computer Corp. introduced a departmental or branch office server priced at less than $2,000 on Tuesday.

Intel Unleashes PIII-M Chips and Mobile Chipset

Intel Corp. added five new mobile processors and three mobile chipsets to its product line this week.

Windows XP RC2 Hits the Web

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.

RSA Security Buying Securant

RSA Security signed an agreement to buy authorization software vendor Securant Technologies Inc. for $136 million.

Code Red: Worm poised to strike again

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.

Bug Affects NT, W2K, SQL and Exchange

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.

IBM Earns W2K Datacenter Certification for DB2 7.2

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.

Terminal Services at Risk for DoS Attack

Microsoft issued a fix to patch a Terminal Services bug that makes Windows servers vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.

Quest Turns Spotlight on Active Directory

Quest expanded the range of tools for managing Windows 2000 Active Directory environments this week with a diagnostic module for Microsoft's directory service.

Windows XP, Hailstorm Face Privacy Challenge in FTC

Privacy watchdog groups filed a complaint Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission challenging Microsoft's attempts to integrate Windows XP, Passport and eventually Hailstorm.

HP to Buy Storage Virtualization Company

Hewlett-Packard Co. bought storage company StorageApps in a stock-for-stock deal valued at $350 million.

Maxtor Ships Windows-Powered NAS Filer

Maxtor Corp. launched a 400-GB, 1U file server this week based on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server Appliance Kit.

Microsoft Acknowledges Problem with Services for Unix

Microsoft patched a memory leak in its Unix interoperability software that an attacker could exploit to take down a Windows server.

Column/Microsoft Stays As One – Maybe That’s Too Bad

Columnist Joseph McKendrick asks "what if?" as the possibility of a Microsoft breakup in the antitrust case recedes.

VMWare Unveils Virtual Machine for NT/W2K

VMWare Inc. unveiled a new version of its virtual machine application software – dubbed GSX Server – for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms.

Senator Calls for Hearings on Windows XP

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.

Microsoft Intros Academic Version of Visual Studio

The .NET generation of Visual Studio gained a third flavor this week with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET Academic.

Kernel-Mode Caching Should Add Speed in IIS 6.0

Internet Information Services 6.0 boasts a new kernel-mode caching capability that could greatly enhance the Web server's performance.

Microsoft Petitions Appeals Court for Rehearing

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.