Enable Windows Installer in Safe Mode to troubleshoot with these tricks.
AMD announced this week it is shipping the first dual-core 64-bit Athlon CPU for desktops right on schedule. The company had said in late April that it would ship them in June and beat that by a day.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/01/2005
Windows management software heavyweight Quest Software will buy Vintela Inc., a newer firm specializing in integrating Unix and Linux systems into Active Directory, for
$56.5 million in cash, the companies announced this week. Quest expects the deal to close late in the second quarter or early in the third quarter, assuming regulators approve.
- By Scott Bekker and Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/01/2005
HP will ship by mid-June three new additions to its t5000 line of thin clients, finally answering customers’ questions as to what the company will do now that Transmeta is exiting the thin client processor business, and taking aim at low-priced competitors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/01/2005
Comparing the MCAP to a PhD is a bit lofty, and, well, wrong.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2005
Firewalls and other security measures have mitigated threats, but the onslaught continues, says a recent survey.
A long goodbye precedes this quick getaway.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/31/2005
Factory revenues for Unix servers and Windows servers were equal for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2005, according to market researchers at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/31/2005
AMD released the complete specification of its “Pacifica” chip-level virtualization technology for its 64-bit processors this week, joining Intel in the rush to build chip support for running multiple operating systems simultaneously.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/27/2005
From the business wires this week: a bevy of anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam solutions to keep your computer clean and you sane.
IBM is shipping two new toolkits that combine technologies from two of its middleware businesses – Rational and Tivoli – to help developers and operators diagnose problems in production code while it’s running.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/26/2005
Windows surged again in 2004 as a platform for new relational database management system licenses, but Linux is growing at an extremely rapid pace as Unix loses popularity, according to new research from Gartner Inc.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/25/2005
FullArmor is shipping the latest release of its IntelliPolicy user policy-enforcement client for Windows desktops.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/25/2005
Microsoft updated its server software platform for speech-enabled applications this week with an R2 version of Microsoft Speech Server 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/25/2005
Popular exam savings and retake offer extended through Microsoft Certfied Partners and Microsoft Business Solutions programs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/25/2005
Quarantine unfit clients before they log into your network with RAS.
Windows OneCare service provides one-stop solution against malware and mucked-up computers.
What's behind the Winroute utility still listing long-dead sites.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/24/2005
Microsoft released more pre-release code for some core elements of the Longhorn operating system in advance of the general Longhorn Beta 1 scheduled for this summer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/24/2005
New scripters, take note: VBscript treats ampersands and underscores as if they were nothing, so to speak.