Windows 2000, Microsoft's five year-old operating system for servers and business desktops, will switch into the "extended support" phase of the product lifecycle after June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 22, 2005
Microsoft completed the acquisition of Sybari Software on Tuesday and announced product plans, which include discontinuing new sales of the secure messaging company's products for Linux and Unix platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday posted a blocker tool to help organizations prevent Automatic Updates from automatically downloading and installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 on their systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Microsoft named its top European executive, Jean-Philippe Courtois, to a newly created position of Microsoft International president, in which he will lead international sales, marketing and services.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Microsoft is taking the Web-enablement concept that produced Outlook Web Access and extending it to its new real-time communication client, Microsoft Office Communicator.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 21, 2005
Quest Software is shipping the latest release of a tool designed to simplify migration from Novell NDS to Microsoft Active Directory.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
As part of its monthly patch release this week, Microsoft re-released three older security bulletins to fix various problems with them.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2005
Microsoft will deliver its Windows Server 2003, Compute Cluster Edition, for high-performance grid computing in two pieces to offer customers maximum flexibility in deployment, a senior Microsoft product manager says.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 15, 2005
Tampa Bay, Fla.-based Sunbelt Software released version 1.5 of its CounterSpy Enterprise anti-spyware detection and removal tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
San Diego-based St. Bernard Software announced it is shipping of SpyExpert, a standalone anti-spyware software solution for small-to-medium-sized businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
Titus Labs began shipping MessageRights version 2.5, which adds features that make it easier to deploy and use Microsoft’s Windows Rights Management Services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 15, 2005
Microsoft's monthly bundle of patches for June is one of the biggest since the company switched to a monthly patching cycle, and it brings fixes for 12 vulnerabilities, including three critical issues.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 14, 2005
New Boundary Technologies says it will ship next month a suite that bundles its existing software deployment and patch management products with a new tool for asset management.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 14, 2005
During a presentation at Microsoft TechEd 2005 this month, the Microsoft Security Response Center summarized all of the most important Microsoft security resources available to IT and consumers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 13, 2005
Veritas Software said it will ship next month the latest version of its high availability storage management solution for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 09, 2005
TNT Software says it will ship this month version 4.0 of its ELM Enterprise Manager.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 09, 2005
How would you like to pay for a four-processor server that really has eight chips inside? How about if you won't have to pay for those extra chips unless and until you use them? Talk to Unisys.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
The versions of Windows XP stripped of Windows Media Player to comply with a European Commission order will start shipping this month, Microsoft said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
Microsoft put IT departments on alert Thursday that its monthly patch bundle, scheduled for next Tuesday, will be a monster.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005
Microsoft this week followed IBM and Oracle in publicly committing to delivering infrastructure software to support radio frequency identification (RFID) scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 09, 2005