The final chapter in this four-part series discusses a global 
manufacturing firm's experiences in moving from NT 4.0 to Windows 
Server 2003, an operation with 10,000 computers worldwide.
                    
			            - By Linda  Briggs
- January 07, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With a quartet of Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers and the 64-bit edition of its Essbase OLAP, Hyperion beats Oracle’s market-leading score in a key OLAP benchmark by 39 percent.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- January 07, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft posted a tool in its Download Center on Tuesday for removing several variants of the Blaster worm.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 07, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft unveiled a short-term roadmap for Apple Macintosh products this week at Apple's Macworld conference in San Francisco.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 07, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ScriptLogic Corp. bought privately-held Small Wonders Software, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 06, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is offering an olive branch to Windows Small Business Server 2003 customers after an embarrassing problem with Windows SharePoint Services blocked users during installation of Small Business Server.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 06, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft launched a customer preview program for its Windows Server 2003 operating systems for AMD's Opteron processors.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 06, 2004
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The name WinINSTALL makes one think of packaging up applications, testing for conflicts, and automating the deployment of new software. The newly announced WinINSTALL 8 does all that, but has enough extras that its developer is looking to rebrand the tool next year.
                    
			            - By Doug  Barney
- December 18, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Eliot Spitzer, the New York State Attorney General whose office spearheaded investigations of Wall Street abuses, is working with Microsoft to punish spammers.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 18, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Part three of this four-part series describes a Canadian firm's 
on-going, cautious efforts to evaluate the new platform for its 
truly mission-critical 24x7 environment.
                    
			            - By Linda  Briggs
- December 18, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft plans to release a toolset for compliance with the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act in March, the company announced this week.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 18, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft laid out a roadmap on Wednesday for retiring Windows 2000 Server editions over the next few years. The process starts in April for Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 17, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed plans to hold pricing relatively steady for the next release of its integration-focused BizTalk Server 2004, which is scheduled to ship early next year.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 17, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Part Two of this four-part series profiles an organization with 
30 television stations across the country and 2,000-plus employees.
                    
			            - By Linda  Briggs
- December 17, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Tuesday released an open beta of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2004, the company's second-generation application management tool which is scheduled for release next summer.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 17, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The earliest that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will ship is at the end of the first half of 2004, according to Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Microsoft's  security business unit.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 16, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Moving to a major new operating system is always daunting, but 
for these four companies, the switch to Microsoft’s latest OS 
was well worth it. In part 1 of a four-part series, here's why 
one small ISP moved for the speed improvements as well as 
server consolidation.
                    
			            - By Linda  Briggs
- December 16, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Storage giant EMC Corp. will buy virtualization software vendor VMWare Inc. in a $635 million deal expected to close in the first quarter of 2004, the companies said Monday. The deal widens EMC's software portfolio and shields VMWare from a head-to-head battle with Microsoft, which acquired VMWare competitor Connectix earlier this year.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 15, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The one constant in Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance programs has been change. Generally, that change has come in the form of added goodies for the program as the company realized it was alienating customers with too many restrictions for too little value and arming critics with a hot button issue.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 11, 2003
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft found no security problems serious enough to fix in December. Microsoft's new patch policy calls for all patches to be released on the second Tuesday of the month. The company announced Tuesday that it was letting the regular patching date pass without any new security bulletins and patches.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- December 10, 2003