Microsoft today released an estimate that customers have obtained more
than 1 million copies of Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Server, and
Advanced Server since the product's launch Feb. 17.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 14, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 14, 2000
March 14, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 14, 2000
IBM today took the wraps off a new brand of PC devices that the company has been talking about for months. The NetVista line includes next-generation PCs, Internet access devices and thin clients.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 13, 2000
Microsoft and Andersen Consulting today announced development of a new company that will focus on enterprise customers. The joint venture, dubbed Avanade, will deliver Internet-specific and other enterprise platform services based on the Windows 2000 operating system platform.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 13, 2000
Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) 1.0. The vulnerability could allow a remote author of a malicious SQL query to take unauthorized actions on a SQL Server or MSDE database or on the underlying system that was hosting the SQL Server or MSDE database.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 10, 2000
Microsoft announced a new client for use with Terminal Services, and foreshadowed another that will emerge later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 10, 2000
Last month, Microsoft broke the conferencing functionality out of Exchange Server 2000, said it will ship as a standalone product called, not surprisingly, Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server, and chalked both products up as the first of release candidates.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 10, 2000
At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) last month, Intel and eight hardware partners showed off prototype Itanium 64-bit servers, and Intel claimed the chip will reach production mid-year.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 10, 2000
Novell fired
another shot in the directory services war this week by introducing its NDS
eDirectory for Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 09, 2000
March 9, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 09, 2000
Last week, several OEMs announced plans to release 1-GHz Pentium III-based consumer PCs this month, only to be trumped on Monday by AMD's announcement of its 1-GHz Athlon processor. Now Intel has continued the fray with today's announcement of the release of its 1-GHz Pentium III processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2000
A recent report by IDC states that the company expects shipment of thin clients to reach almost 1.3 million by the end of 2000. IDC estimates much of the 2000 expansion will result from the integration of Terminal Server into Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2000
March 8, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- March 08, 2000
VeriSign, a provider of Internet trust services, has acquired Network Solutions, the registrar of domain names, in a stock transaction valued at $21 billion.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 07, 2000
Microsoft opened the beta testing phase today for its
OLE DB for Data Mining specification, a key precursor to the release of SQL
Server 2000 with its built-in data mining functionality.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 07, 2000