Microsoft will put some of the fruits of its $5-billion-per-year R&D operation on the auction block, offering to license the technologies to entrepreneurs for a fee and a cut of the profits.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005
Microsoft has a $12 upgrade program to encourage customers running 32-bit Windows XP Professional on machines with x64 processors to make the jump to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The software giant warns, however, that customers need to proceed carefully with respect to their hardware.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005
Stumped about how to prepare for 64-bit Windows now and in Longhorn? A Gartner analyst recently laid out a roadmap for organizations to follow in evaluating x64 versions of Microsoft Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2005
Securely install Win2003 with SP1 from the get-go.
IBM announced late Wednesday a restructuring that will result in layoffs of as many as 13,000 workers, primarily in Europe, and a pre-tax charge of up to $1.7 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/04/2005
IBM has released three new XML development tools for its Emerging Technologies Toolkit, a collection of free tools aimed at familiarizing developers with areas that the company sees as strategic to its vision of computing going forward.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2005
Quick look at this often-ignored but useful Windows 2003 feature, including some gotchas to watch for when deploying it.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/03/2005
Microsoft released eight security bulletins in April. According to our analysis,
one is critical, one important and another noteworthy. The rest can be applied
with the next service pack or major version upgrade.
Cisco Systems on Tuesday launched a key component of its Self Defending Network initiative when it delivered the first of its Adaptive Server Appliance 5500 Series family of multi-function network security appliances.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2005
The security organization says the rate at which threats are emerging requires more regular updates to its closely watched list. New to the SANS Institute list are seven Microsoft vulnerabilities and problems with products from Computer Associates, Oracle, antivirus companies and media player companies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/03/2005
A buffer flow can turn into a flood of spam or worms in the latest vulnerability discovered.
Forget about low-carb diets. Storage consolidation is the new craze hitting the fat-conscious world.
From the business wires this week: hosted solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SharePoint, a one-touch backup and recovery external hard drive, and a 2.5TB NDAS storage unit.
Streamline administration of IIS with its command-line tools.
The Computing Technology Industry Association has an inventory of discount vouchers for A+ exams that are on the verge of expiring.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/27/2005
Sun Microsystems plans to ship versions of its Sun Fire V40z server in May that will be available with up to four of AMD’s new dual-core, 64-bit Opteron processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/27/2005
SEATTLE -- Microsoft held a session at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference Wednesday on "Internet Explorer today and tomorrow," although the working title could have as easily been "Internet Explorer eight months ago."
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/27/2005
ScriptLogic is shipping version 6.5 of its Desktop Authority PC administration package. The upgrade makes improvements in file and registry security operations, Windows firewall control and inactivity timers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/27/2005
A new service pack out for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services adds several end-user features, as well as standard bug fixes, to the free add-on for the SQL Server database.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005
SEATTLE -- Attendees to Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week were treated to a kit of DVDs, including one eagerly awaited item -- another pre-beta version of the Windows Longhorn operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005