Every five years or so, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates has an attack of paranoia that the company has just missed the boat on the latest technology trend, and subsequently issues a memo to rally the troops in the new direction.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 09, 2005
Lucid8 is shipping DigiVault, a new continuous data protection product for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 09, 2005
Microsoft's beta antispyware program will be called Windows Defender in its final version and will include protection against rootkits and keystroke loggers, a company official said.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 09, 2005
NetIQ is shipping Change Guardian 1.0 for Active Directory, a monitoring and auditing tool for risk and compliance management, and change control, within Microsoft Active Directory environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 08, 2005
Borland Software has named former Microsoft executive Tod Nielsen as the company’s new president and CEO, and has also appointed him a member of the Cupertino, Calif. company’s board. Nielsen replaces previous CEO Dale Fuller who left Borland in July.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 08, 2005
A new Microsoft security bulletin includes patches for three Windows flaws, two of them critical problems that can permit attackers to take control of a system over the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 08, 2005
Microsoft Learning releases training tools to coincide with launch of the company's relational database and software development suites.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 08, 2005
Merido announces support for Office “12” in its ECM solution.
- By Dan Hong
- November 07, 2005
Microsoft on Monday held its highly-touted launch event to deliver SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, release a community technology preview (CTP) of BizTalk Server 2006 and make available version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 07, 2005
With the launch of SQL Server 2005 today in San Francisco, Microsoft has unveiled a new program that will allow registered independent software vendors (ISVs) to earn a "Front Runner" designation as well as a chance to receive up to $5,000 to promote their custom SQL applications.
- By Becky Nagel
- November 07, 2005
Oracle Chief Financial Officer and Co-President Greg Maffei resigned late Thursday after just four months on the job, making him the third CFO to leave the post during the past two years.
- By Becky Nagel
- November 04, 2005
From the business wires this week: an event log monitoring tool, Active Directory troubleshooting tool, code generator for .NET and a hacking contest.
- By Dan Hong
- November 03, 2005
Quest Software this week announced a new product that is designed to increase e-mail availability for Exchange users.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 03, 2005
Registration has opened for beta versions of exams required for MCTS and MCPD certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 03, 2005
Microsoft is planning to post one patch next week as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletin release cycle. The patch will fix a flaw in Windows with a maximum severity rating of critical.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 03, 2005
In the wake of this week’s announcement of Windows Live and Office Live, Microsoft announced the acquisition Thursday of an online service with a technology that dovetails with those plans.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 03, 2005
Sun Microsystems announced this week that it is working on two new on-demand services, both targeted at users who need to convert text files to other formats.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- November 02, 2005
Veteran Microsoft executive Bob Muglia will fill one of the key holes left by the executive reorganization that Microsoft unveiled in September.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2005
Microsoft will begin supporting Exchange servers in virtual machines under certain conditions later this month, the company said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2005
A Q&A with Peter Ells, business development manager for Software ONE.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 01, 2005