Internet Explorer is one of the most used products in nearly every environment, but most administrators know little
about how to tune it for best
performance and safety.
- By Greg Shields
- October 01, 2005
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a concept touted by Microsoft and various Linux vendors as proof that their products are cheapest to run. But TCO claims aren't what they're cracked up to be, and most IT shops never use TCO, or just plain do it wrong.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- October 01, 2005
These alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Explorer can add Web-browsing
muscle, but they're not
without potential problems.
- By Don Jones
- October 01, 2005
From the business wires this week: a remote desktop solution for 64-bit Windows, a portable fingerprint scanner for laptops, a spam filter for Outlook and 64-bit servers and workstations.
- By Dan Hong
- September 30, 2005
Sun Microsystems this week released a new version of its StarOffice business software suite, selling for the cut-rate price of $70. The competitor to Microsoft Office is touting features including "seamless compatibility with Microsoft Office," support for XForms XML-based forms and lots of ease-of-use improvements.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 29, 2005
A small German company is shipping an inexpensive utility designed to aid users’ hard drive cleanup maintenance by automatically listing and removing unwanted files.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 29, 2005
EMC Corp. announced it will ship in early October a plug-in to the Microsoft Exchange System Manager user interface aimed at simplifying management of e-mail, migration of data and managing storage area network resources, all from within the same tool.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 29, 2005
With the launch of SQL Server 2005 coming in November, Microsoft has formalized the implementation guidance and marketing support it will provide to its partners and customers.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 29, 2005
Microsoft this week posted Service Pack 2 for Office 2003 to its Download Center and began distributing the service pack through its sprawling update infrastructure.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 28, 2005
Buried in an unrelated storage announcement this week was a sign that Microsoft is making headway in encouraging a line of branch office appliances built on Windows Server 2003 R2.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 28, 2005