Microsoft this month continued the shuffle of its Visual Studio developer suite packages prior to their planned release next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2004
Security giant Symantec is buying digital security company @stake for an undisclosed sum in a deal that is expected to close in October.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2004
Microsoft on Monday unveiled backup and recovery software for Windows file servers that will provide continuous backup of incremental changes to files and rapid recovery from disk-based storage.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2004
Microsoft and Sendo reached a settlement in the lawsuit and countersuit that arose after the companies' mobile phone partnership fell apart in late 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2004
The Microsoft Board of Directors on Wednesday declared a regular quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share that will be payable Dec. 2.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 16, 2004
Microsoft posted the first service pack for Systems Management Server 2003. While the company characterizes the service pack as a "relatively small update" to SMS 2003, which came out in November, SP1 is important to Microsoft's larger management roadmap.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2004
Microsoft planned to release a kit on Wednesday to help systems integrators build hooks from SAP implementations into Microsoft's Office Project Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2004
Microsoft this week released a 180-day evaluation edition of Virtual Server 2005, its first-generation product for running several virtualized server environments on one physical machine. General availability of Virtual Server 2005 is set for mid-October.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2004
A remote attacker could take complete control over computers running many versions of Microsoft software by inserting malicious code in a JPEG image that executes through an unchecked buffer when the image is processed, Microsoft acknowledged on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2004
Members of Microsoft’s network of business partner vendors see the gold running in Yukon, and are ready to spring into action with enhanced solutions.
- By Joe McKendrick
- September 13, 2004
Oracle, the one-time Cadillac dealer of database vendors, is trying to out-cheap competitors, including SMB and small enterprise kingpin Microsoft.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 13, 2004
Intel used its annual developer forum this week to lay out a server platform roadmap that has its Xeon and Itanium server processor lines running on a common platform architecture sometime after 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
Celestix Networks, one of several Microsoft partners building firewall appliances based on Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, began shipping its systems this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
Sybari Software this week updated its product line for securing e-mail through anti-virus, anti-spam and content-filtering products.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
Microsoft this month released a Service Pack 1 for its SharePoint technologies to fix bugs and add support for new search functionality, larger file sizes and additional languages.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
IBM's next version of the DB2 Universal Database, code-named "Stinger," will be generally available on Sept. 17, the company said Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 09, 2004
Microsoft this week updated an administrative tool for delaying Automatic Update and Windows Update rollouts of Windows XP Service Pack 2 from four months to eight months.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 08, 2004
There are numerous stories out there about all the applications Windows
XP SP2 breaks. Many shops are putting off the service pack for months
until it can be fully tested -- a wise choice.
- By Keith Ward
- September 08, 2004
Market researchers at IDC say worldwide factory server revenues grew for the fifth consecutive quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 31, 2004
Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president for platforms, discussed Microsoft's recent decisions on Windows "Longhorn" development in a recorded message posted to Microsoft's Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 31, 2004