May 23, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2000
Microsoft issued the second beta of its Datacenter Server. The pending OS will ship to OEM partners, who then will distribute it to customers.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2000
In an initiative allowing it to make effectively bigger, faster processors, Intel shrank its dies for the Xeon processor. The new Xeons, released today, boast speeds up to 700 MHz, and offer either 1MB or 2MB of Level 2 (L2) cache.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2000
Perhaps in response to the ever growing population of "paper MCSEs," Microsoft announced that its certification testing for Windiws 2000 will be more rigorous than it was for Windows NT.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2000
May 22, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2000
May 19, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2000
The mid-June delivery target for Windows 2000
Datacenter Server is approaching fast, but a key preliminary step for the
high-end version of Windows 2000, the Beta 2 version, has not shipped yet.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2000
Computer Associates International (CA) warned all computer users of a new worm known as Spammer.A that is more destructive than the recent "I Love You" worm, and has already infected thousands of computers, proliferating via e-mail. CA says that the new worm is unrelated to "I Love You."
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 19, 2000
Microsoft released a patch that addresses the recent rash of "Love Bug" and copycat worms that made their way around the Internet. However, the fix may end up affecting users more than the bugs did.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2000
Clippy, the Microsoft Office Assistant, has inspired a range of feelings from annoyance to outright loathing since arriving in 1997. Microsoft Corp. now says Clippy may be a dangerous security hole.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2000
Microsoft announced an extension of its alliance with CommVault Systems to provide customers with data protection and data management solutions for enterprise computing environments. The agreement includes an equity investment from Redmond as well.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2000
Microsoft announced the results of an independent study which showed that Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), Microsoft's message-oriented middleware service, is nearly 10 times faster than IBM's MQSeries in identical testing scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2000
Arbortext, a provider of XML-based content software, announced the availability of Epic Editor and Epic Editor LE, now with support for Oracle Corp.'s Internet File System (iFS).
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2000
May 16, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2000