Windows 2000 Datacenter Server hit its second anniversary on the market in late September, and Microsoft has laid out the feature set for a Windows .NET Server 2003, Datacenter Edition. Sales of Windows Datacenter Server are hard to pin down and are probably quite low, especially by Microsoft's standards of volume. But Microsoft has made impressive scalability progress with the operating system on benchmarks and has shown a solid commitment to remaining in the high-end -- so far.
Later this week, Microsoft's training and skills assessment group will release two new exams to shore up the developer certification tracks.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/16/2002
Microsoft recently altered its licensing with Windows Datacenter Server to allow for four-processor licensing packs. The change makes it easier for customers to license and use Datacenter for its high availability features.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/16/2002
A security firm discovered that users who enable a rarely used feature in Microsoft's Outlook Express client could allow viruses, trojans and worms to slip past the usual array of perimeter security defenses, including gateway virus scanners, SMTP-checking firewalls and content filters.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2002
NEC blasted back into the high-end Windows scalability fray this week with the first major audited benchmark showing significant scalability for a 64-bit Windows-based system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2002
Intel put out a higher clockspeed processor for two-way servers and workstations this week. New to the Intel Xeon line are a 2.8-GHz model and a 2.6-GHz model.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2002
The capacity of fault-tolerant Windows servers doubled this week as Stratus unveiled its long-awaited four-processor fault-tolerant Intel-based server. At the same time, the Massachusetts-based company has changed course on its original plans to vigorously drive down its own prices for its fault-tolerant technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/13/2002
Security exam to face scrutiny of beta testers Oct. 10-17.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/12/2002
Microsoft is due to get Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server out the door this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2002
"Yukon," the code-name for a major overhaul of SQL Server, will be ready for general availability sometime during the 2004 fiscal year, and "Longhorn," the code-name for the Windows operating system release after Windows .NET Server 2003, is coming in 2005, according to a senior Microsoft official.
- By Matt Migliore
- 09/12/2002
The software giant teamed up with Unisys to demonstrate the performance advantages of 64-bit computing for large database applications.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/10/2002
Microsoft released a Windows 2000-specific patch for a vulnerability the software giant disclosed last week involving the validation of digital certificates.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/10/2002
Microsoft posted Windows XP Service Pack 1 to its Web site on Monday as promised for users and administrators to download. The bundle of security and bug fixes can also be ordered for CD shipment.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/09/2002
The IT analyst house Giga Information Group is impressed with the way IBM's new Intel-based servers scale from four processors to eight processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/05/2002
Security remains a hot-button issue for Microsoft, as Brian Valentine, senior vice president for the Windows division at Microsoft, took center stage this morning at Windows Server DevCon in Seattle to tout Redmond’s new “hardened” approach to software development.
- By Matt Migliore
- 09/05/2002
A flaw associated with the manner in which Microsoft's cryptography application programming interface validates X.509 certificates could enable an attacker to perpetrate a variety of identity-spoofing attacks. The vulnerability also affects Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Office applications for the Macintosh.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/05/2002
As IBM Corp. ramps up for the launch of Lotus Notes and Domino 6, Big Blue is releasing details of its internal deployment of the messaging and collaboration platform. Version 6 is scheduled to be released this quarter. It is the biggest Lotus product launch in several years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/05/2002
Microsoft has expanded on the roadmap for its Visual Studio developer suite through 2004 to give customers an indication of where the company is headed. The document shows Visual Studio .NET will be synchronized to three waves of products coming from Microsoft: Windows .NET Server 2003, Yukon and Longhorn.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/04/2002
Windows Server DevCon kicked off today in Seattle with Bill Veghte, corporate vice president for Microsoft, touting Windows .NET Server as “the fastest, most reliable and most secure” operating system ever to come out of Redmond.
- By Matt Migliore
- 09/04/2002
UltraBac Software refreshed its flagship UltraBac 7.0 backup and restore software on Tuesday with a point release that adds support for using FTP servers or IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager as storage devices.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/03/2002