ATLANTA -- The Beta 2 version of Visual Studio .NET is available, and a final version will ship this year, Bill Gates promised Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2001
ATLANTA -- Microsoft revealed Tuesday that its next generation server operating systems, code named Whistler, will be named Windows .NET Servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2001
Microsoft posted a bulletin to its Security Web site that confirmed the existence of a new IIS vulnerability that could potentially give an attacker complete control over affected Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2001
ATLANTA -- Microsoft Corp. plans to ship its first content management server in the third quarter, a company official told attendees at the TechEd 2001 developer show.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 18, 2001
ATLANTA -- Microsoft Corp. used its annual TechEd developer show to launch its latest .NET Enterprise Server, Mobile Information Server 2001, and try to kick start a third-party environment around the product.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 18, 2001
Microsoft endured a rocky stretch when it came to the security of its enterprise platforms in May with serious vulnerabilities discovered in IIS 5.0. It doesn't look like June will offer much of a respite for Redmond. Some users are getting fed up.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 17, 2001
Microsoft Wednesday rereleased -- again -- the patch for a recent exploit in Outlook Web Access (OWA), a Web-based interface for a Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange Server 2000. Redmond has botched the hotfix twice now.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 14, 2001
Microsoft will publicly unveil the first service pack for SQL Server 2000 on Monday at TechEd in Atlanta. The service pack repairs 240 issues with Microsoft's flagship database. It is not considered a required upgrade.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 14, 2001
A set of security guidelines for Windows 2000 posted by the National Security Agency last week proved so popular that NSA was forced to shut that area of its site down.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 14, 2001
Oracle launched its Oracle9i database on Thursday with an emphasis on a new version of its old clustering technology that the company claims will change the price dynamics of the database market. Windows version won't be available for about 90 days.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 14, 2001
Altiris toolkit helps IT administrators track licensing and measure application usage to make sure an enterprise is in compliance -- and isn't spending too much.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 13, 2001
Hewlett-Packard Co. ported its failure protection package for SAP ERP environments to the Windows 2000 platform, the company announced this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 13, 2001
A flaw in the way SQL Server caches client connections could allow an attacker to take control of a database, Microsoft Corp. acknowledged in a security bulletin this week. Microsoft characterizes the effort needed to exploit the vulnerability as "daunting."
- By Scott Bekker
- June 13, 2001
Unisys uses 900 MHz PIII Xeons in its 32-processor ES7000 server with Windows 2000 Datacenter Server to leapfrog from fourth to second place on SAP's scalability benchmark. Only a 64-bit Fujitsu-Siemens system running 64 processors, Solaris and Oracle stands in Wintel's way on the proprietary benchmark.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 12, 2001
Legato ports its Co-StandbyServer to Windows 2000. Company hopes to do business around the margins of Microsoft's Cluster Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 12, 2001
For a long time it was safe to write off Wintel as a scalable platform. But, for the last three years, a combination of factors have sent
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. careening toward the glass house at a rate that should give UNIX/RISC vendors pause and give IT executives
reason to take notice of that upstart PC platform.
The security update that Microsoft Corp. released on Wednesday to patch a security exploit in Exchange servers actually required a patching of its own.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 11, 2001
Is it too early for super-sized Windows servers in the enterprise? The actions of two of the big four Intel-based server manufacturers in recent months say yes.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 11, 2001
For a long time it was safe to write off Wintel as a scalable platform. But, for the last three years, a combination of factors have sent Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. careening toward the glass house at a rate that should give UNIX/RISC vendors pause and give IT executives reason to take notice of that upstart PC platform.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 11, 2001
Microsoft releases a megapatch to seal seven security holes in Windows 2000's Telnet services.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2001