ScriptLogic is shipping version 6.5 of its Desktop Authority PC administration package.  The upgrade makes improvements in file and registry security operations, Windows firewall control and inactivity timers.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 27, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SEATTLE -- Microsoft held a session at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference Wednesday on "Internet Explorer today and tomorrow," although the working title could have as easily been "Internet Explorer eight months ago."
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 27, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sun Microsystems plans to ship versions of its Sun Fire V40z server in May that will be available with up to four of AMD’s new dual-core, 64-bit Opteron processors.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 27, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new service pack out for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services adds several end-user features, as well as standard bug fixes, to the free add-on for the SQL Server database.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 26, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SEATTLE -- Attendees to Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week were treated to a kit of DVDs, including one eagerly awaited item -- another pre-beta version of the Windows Longhorn operating system.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 26, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer at International Paper, will assume the same job at Microsoft.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 26, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SEATTLE -- Windows XP Media Center Edition sales topped 1 million in the six months since the launch of the most recent edition, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said this week.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 26, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SEATTLE -- Dell and HP took advantage of this week’s delivery of Microsoft’s Windows x64 editions to announce that they will soon begin shipping computers that run the 64-bit operating systems.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 26, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft plans to post a public beta of Windows Server 2003 "R2" this week.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 25, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SEATTLE -- Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates on Monday launched the x64 editions of Windows and gave a public preview of the much-anticipated Windows "Longhorn" user interface at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 25, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    AMD began delivering its first dual-core Opteron 64-bit CPUs in quantity this week, and HP announced its first servers based on the technology.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 22, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Borland is shipping a major release of its modeling suite for Visual Studio. Among key new features, Together 2005 for Visual Studio.Net adds support for Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 and introduces a role-based work model.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 21, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As the dual-core duel heats up, IBM announced Thursday that it is about to ship a workstation based on AMD’s dual-core chips.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 21, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of the first service pack for Virtual Server 2005. The service pack delivers support for Windows Server 2003 x64 editions and performance improvements.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 20, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Dell this week began offering Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Workgroup Edition on its PowerEdge servers.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 20, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Softricity will ship this quarter its ZeroTouch software aimed at enabling end users to self-provision applications over the network – and in a protected “virtualized” environment.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- April 20, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 causes problems with 14 high-profile server applications, including Exchange Server 2003, according to a Knowledge Base article published by the software vendor this month. Most of the problems, including the Exchange issue, are minor or obscure.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 20, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday announced two new systems management products it will ship later this year under the System Center family name.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 19, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week posted new test versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio and .NET came out in Beta 2 versions. Tightly coupled with those public betas is a feature-complete SQL Server Community Technology Preview (CTP).
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 19, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security researchers this week reported a flaw in the memory handling of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that powers the Microsoft Office Access database.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- April 14, 2005