VMware is shipping ACE, a PC virtualization product designed to protect corporate data and other electronic assets even when the work is being done offsite by outsiders.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 13, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft filed a development agreement this week with the city of Redmond, Wash., committing to expanding its corporate headquarters there.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 12, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Longtime Microsoft executive John Connors is leaving the company to join a venture capital firm.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 12, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Intel spin-off LANDesk announced this week that it is shipping Server Manager 8.5, which provides significant enhancements to the seven-year-old server management tool.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 12, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Operating in the gray area between support and non-support, Microsoft chose to freely distribute the one new security bulletin that affected Windows NT Server 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 days after official support of the operating system expired.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 11, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    There was a flurry of discussion regarding a possible WINS 
worm due to a spike in WINS port 42 traffic.
                    
			            - By Russ  Cooper
- January 11, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 11, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 11, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft offered a widespread beta of a new anti-spyware tool for Windows users on Thursday. The availability of the software marked an extremely quick rebranding and rerelease of the anti-spyware technology Microsoft purchased last month from Giant Company Software.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 06, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 06, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 06, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    It's always interesting to look back and see which stories attracted the most attention from you over the last year in terms of clicks.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 05, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Over the holidays, VMware began beta testing Workstation 5, the latest update to the company’s five-year-old desktop virtualization platform. 
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- January 05, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft will no longer support Intel's high-end Itanium 2 processor in workstation and low-end server operating systems.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 05, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The clock is ticking for California businesses and consumers to make claims in the largest of the class-action lawsuit settlement agreements resulting from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 05, 2005
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Intel and HP announced this month that the chip manufacturer will take over all further development of the two companies’ Itantium family of processors. Though most terms of the deal were not disclosed, Intel will hire HP’s Itanium chip design team, which is located in Fort Collins, Colo.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 23, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has scrapped plans for a 2005 delivery of Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies for e-mail protection and spam management that builds on Exchange Server 2003.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 22, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's effort to delay European antitrust measures until the end of the appeals process failed with the release of an order Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 22, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix Systems and Microsoft announced this week a new technology cross-licensing deal meant to assure the continued enhancement of Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite for Microsoft Windows Terminal Services.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
- December 22, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft released six new security patches in December, but only five official 
Security Bulletins. For some strange reason a patch released on the 
same day as the normal monthly patches -- for Windows XP SP2 only -- 
didn't rate a full Security Bulletin.
                    
			            - By Russ  Cooper
- December 21, 2004