Microsoft on Wednesday formally appealed a federal judge's order to start distributing Sun's Java Runtime Environment with every U.S. and German copy of Windows XP and Internet Explorer by June 4.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/23/2003
Altiris released an updated version of its IT asset management suite that integrates more smoothly with common databases and provides users with new ways to look at their IT inventories.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/23/2003
Microsoft alerted users to a critical unchecked buffer vulnerability in a service that is enabled by default on Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers. The alert was one of three security alerts that Microsoft sent to users on Wednesday night.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/23/2003
Veritas Software this week unveiled version 9.0 of its Backup Exec for Windows Servers. The software is retooled to support Windows Server 2003, to back up Exchange servers more quickly, for faster setup and with browser-based, remote administration.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/23/2003
Microsoft has agreed to buy Web conferencing services provider PlaceWare Inc. and plans to add the company's assets to a new Real-Time Collaboration Group inside Microsoft's Information Worker business.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/22/2003
Despite initial flood of negative comments, respondents to a poll on MCSA/MCSE program changes overwhelmingly positive.
MCDBA, MCSA make list of CertCities.com's top 10 list of “Hottest Certifications for 2003.”
IBM this week disclosed significant changes to its eServer iSeries line of mid-range servers. Once known as the AS/400 line, the servers primarily run IBM's OS/400, but they can be outfitted with Windows and Linux, as well. New to the iSeries are the addition of a new
sub-$10,000 system and the introduction of support for On/Off Capacity
Upgrade on Demand (CUD).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/22/2003
Microsoft announces that it's dropping ".NET" from name of upcoming network operating system family of products as release date looms.
Microsoft made its highly anticipated move into the customer relationship management market on Tuesday with the North American launch of Microsoft CRM.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/22/2003
The past year saw the introduction of two new Microsoft certifications, and one grew by leaps and bounds in its first 12 months.
In an effort to standardize naming conventions for its technical articles, Microsoft has eliminated the letters at the beginning of the article identifiers.
It was the dream of many a Windows NT 4.0 Web site administrator applying the daily or twice-daily reboot. A Windows 2000 system that would just stay up. This month in its monthly report on Web sites around the world, Netcraft found a Windows 2000 site that hasn't needed a reboot in more than two years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/21/2003
U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to include a Java Runtime Environment provided by Sun Microsystems in new copies of Windows XP and Internet Explorer within 120 days.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/21/2003
Microsoft updated its enterprise database, SQL Server 2000, this week with a service pack that includes bug fixes and some new and enhanced functionality.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/21/2003
The final numbers aren’t in, but analysts and security firms are anxious to put a disappointing 2002 behind them even as they look forward to what they say will be a more successful 2003. Over the coming year, Industry watchers expect that IT security spending will increase as firms implement postponed projects and allocate new funding for deferred purchases of security products and services.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/16/2003
Microsoft put up another quarter of record revenues, in part based on strong growth in its server segment. At the same time, Microsoft announced its first stock dividend, a step investors have pushed for in recent years as the days of the stock's meteoric growth have ended.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/16/2003
Long-time Microsoft security-watcher Russ Cooper says that the software giant must do more to enhance the security of its products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/15/2003
Microsoft is offering limited rights to review source code to a third of the world's governments in what is widely viewed as an attempt to blunt open source momentum among security conscious national agencies. Early participants in the program announced this week are NATO and a Russian agency.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/15/2003
Microsoft will unveil the roadmap for the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager in March at the Microsoft Management Summit, the company said this week. In the meantime, the company is refreshing its aging management solution with a raft of incremental pieces.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/14/2003