Wyse Winterm can help you shed those extra pounds.
- By James Carrion
- 01/01/2003
What better way to kick off a new year than with a cool new tool?
- By Chris Brooke
- 01/01/2003
Microsoft is touting its next-generation secure computing infrastructure as a giant leap for mankind. Not everyone agrees.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2003
In which Ms. Pea takes a break from Redmond-bashing.
Back in the old days, "hacker" defined people who delighted in getting right down into the bits and making software work well. Henry S. Warren's Hacker's Delight captures some of the algorithms and feeling of classical hacking.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 01/01/2003
DBA vs. programmer; thumbs down on the new look; one-page résumés.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 01/01/2003
Is Microsoft making the right decisions with its cert program in regards to .NET? Well, consider how other companies change their exams to address a significant technology shift.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/01/2003
In MCP Magazine's eighth annual salary survey, we evaluate the current state of compensation and provide our outlook for the future of Microsoft certified professionals across the U.S.
- By Kristen McCarthy, Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/01/2003
The general release of Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 has been pushed back until at least April and could easily slip past that timeframe.
Mainstream support for Windows NT 4.0 Server ends on Dec. 31, a deadline Microsoft formally set a year ago and reaffirmed with a new support retirement policy in October. Support for several other more minor server products will also expire at the end of this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
Storage software giant Veritas is buying application performance management vendor Precise in a $537 million deal.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
Microsoft alerted users Wednesday night to a critical flaw arising from an unchecked buffer in the Windows XP Shell that could be used to run code of an attacker's choice. The flaw occurs when opening or even hovering over malicious audio files.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
Analyst firm Aberdeen Group predicts an increase in worldwide IT spending in 2003 and beyond but researchers say they don't expect to see the kind of IT spending growth of the late '90s to happen again.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/19/2002
IBM is shipping 16-processor Xeon MP-based servers in volume. The servers, which are five months behind schedule, broaden the options for customers who are looking to run powerful Windows-based systems with more than eight processors for server consolidation or large database projects.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2002
You'd think the existence of ASP.NET on a Web site would make it a safe bet that it's a Windows server, right? Not so fast. Internet researchers at U.K.-based consultancy Netcraft find that about 1 percent of ASP.NET Internet sites on the Web are running Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/18/2002
Microsoft issued a roadmap on its Web site this week of the software and technologies it plans to deliver for the enterprise in 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/17/2002
Microsoft Press is offering VUE testing discounts in selected MCSA/MCSE certification titles. Discount vouchers can be used until Dec. 31, 2003.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/16/2002
Microsoft this week announced the newest edition to its Microsoft Systems Architecture configurations, Microsoft Systems Architecture for the Enterprise Data Center.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2002
The influx of “paper MCSEs” has led many to call for some type of hands-on testing component. The Field Certified Professional Association tries to address that.
Unisys this week touted a new set of benchmarks that it says demonstrates the scalability and the price/performance of its flagship ES7000 Intel servers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/12/2002